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Will Government COVID Interventions Cause 10 Times as Many Deaths as TB?

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There’s a raging pandemic going on across the world, and it’s not COVID-19. Rather, tuberculosis is killing 1.5 million people every year. HIV and malaria are spreading unchecked, too.

What’s worse is that the coronavirus pandemic is consuming global resources at a pace that leaves other diseases on the wayside. For example, The New York Times reports that, aside from impeded access to needed drugs, people with malaria, HIV and TB are also adversely affected by closed clinics and overstressed health care providers.

“A six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy may lead to more than 500,000 additional deaths from illnesses related to HIV, according to the WHO,” the NYT said. “Another model by the W.H.O. predicted that in the worst-case scenario, deaths from malaria could double to 770,000 per year.”

SOURCES:

The New York Times August 3, 2020

Stop TB Partnership May 1, 2020