Tuberculosis rates rise post-COVID
COVID, the new pandemic has made an old one worse. After many years of slow but steady decline, the number of deaths from tuberculosis (TB) is rising again. www.economist.com/international/2022/10/27/how-one-pandemic-made-another-one-worse? According to figures published on October 27 by the WHO’s Global TB Programme, the death toll from tuberculosis was 1.6m in 2021, a rise of 14 …