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Can the same medicine for hiv be used to cure covid19?

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Trials ongoing: There are ongoing trials, but none of them so far has been proven to cure COVID 19.

Answered 5/20/2020

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Hi Dr. Is it possible to have a false negative result from an HIV 4th gen test done at 46 days and 56 because of an covid-19 outbreak ? Or asking different, could an covid and post covid outbreak mess with an 4th gen hiv test ? Thank you .?

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A member asked:

Hi Dr. Is it possible to have a false negative result from an HIV 4th gen test done at 46 days and 56 because of an covid-19 outbreak ? Or asking different, could an covid and post covid outbreak mess with an 4th gen hiv test ? Thank you .?

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