Pizzirusso M, Carrion-Park C, Clark US, et al. - The COVID-19 pandemic has had mental health consequences, so researchers sought to report on the psychiatric symptoms and their correlation with physical symptomatology and prior psychopathology in people living with HIV. They contacted 49 participants in a longitudinal study by telephone in April 2020 and conducted a structured interview focusing on COVID-19-associated physical symptoms. Mental health screens were done using the generalized anxiety disorder-2 (GAD-2) and patient health questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2). In 69% of participants, COVID-19-indicator symptoms were present; 41% had respiratory and 61% extra-pulmonary symptoms. Mental health symptoms were endorsed in 45% with PHQ-2 and 43% with GAD-2, although threshold for major depression was met in only 4% and for GAD in 14%. Respiratory symptoms were linked with higher PHQ scores, but prior mood or anxiety disorders were not. GAD-2 scores were higher with past mood disorders, but not with prior anxiety disorders or respiratory symptoms. Per findings, this group of people living with HIV frequently experienced physical symptoms and commonly had mild psychiatric symptoms, but did not endorse serious anxiety and depression, at the acute height of the New York City COVID-19 pandemic. There remains uncertainty regarding reasons for this, as this preliminary report is descriptive in nature.