Connected by our breath: COVID-19 and tuberculosis – Toronto Star
March 24, 2020
As of today, the global estimates are that more than 15,000 people have died from COVID-19.
Almost 4,000 people die every day of tuberculosis.
While the ever-growing fear of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is alarming, it raises other concerns for me as an epidemiologist whose research focuses on tuberculosis.
Tuesday marks World Tuberculosis Day, a time when we try to raise public awareness about the global burden of tuberculosis.
We are all connected by breath, as both COVID-19 and tuberculosis demonstrate.
In Canada, Indigenous communities face alarming rates of tuberculosis, but have poor access to health-care services during normal times, due to a myriad of factors.
