COVID can cause many chronic diseases, data suggests that telomere damage ages the body by about 5 years, and it causes damage to the immune system.
HIV mostly just damages the immune system and is easily treated.
Finally, we don't know what else COVID might cause over time.
The overwhelming majority of people who caught Covid walk away with no secondary or long term complications, the entirety of people with HIV have lifelong need for treatment with insanely deadly diseases like tuberculosis and toxoplasmosis
The overwhelming majority of people who caught Covid walk away with no secondary or long term complications, the entirety of people with HIV have lifelong need for treatment with insanely deadly diseases like tuberculosis and toxoplasmosis
Long COVID is just the new name for munchausen syndrome.