COVID-19: Avoiding a second tragedy in a tuberculosis burdened country

Submitted: April 25, 2020
Accepted: May 18, 2020
Published: May 21, 2020
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Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first notified in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Now, it has spread rapidly and has been declared a pandemic affecting over 200 countries with widespread morbidity and mortality. It has been postulated that the most vulnerable population are the elderly, people living in crowded areas, children and immune-compromised individuals, such as people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The correlation of tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malnutrition are well documented and hence, people with tuberculosis should be considered as special population in this pandemic. TB is an ancient disease among humans recorded as far back as seventy thousand years which was declared a global public health emergency in 1993 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). India has the highest TB burden in the world.

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Amit Kumar, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi

Chest Physician, Cronus Multispeciality Hospital, Chatterpur, New Delhi

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Yadav, Siddharth Raj, Rohit Kumar, Nitesh Gupta, Pranav Ish, Shibdas Chakrabarti, and Amit Kumar. 2020. “COVID-19: Avoiding a Second Tragedy in a Tuberculosis Burdened Country”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 90 (2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1338.

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