Tuberculosis cases nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, data show
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, new diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped like a stone in the United States. Data released Thursday by the CDC suggest the pandemic effect has pretty much…
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, new diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped like a stone in the United States. Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest the pandemic effect has pretty much worn off; TB is nearly back to pre-2020 levels.
“We’re getting … close to where we were pre-pandemic; not quite back yet with increases in cases in the last two years,” Philip LoBue, director of the CDC’s division of tuberculosis elimination, told STAT in an interview. “Everything looks like we’re going to end up maybe next year or the year after basically back to the situation we were in pre-pandemic.”
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