Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown

[KenH]

1.4 million people predicted to die from tuberculosis due to economic lockdowns.

“Global lockdown measures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to millions of people contracting tuberculosis (TB) over the coming years, according to a new study.

As many as 6.3 million people are expected to develop TB as cases go undiagnosed and untreated between now and 2025, a study published by Stop TB Partnership on Wednesday showed, with 1.4 million people predicted to die during this time.“

Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown

 

[Use of Time]

1.4 million people predicted to die from tuberculosis due to economic lockdowns.

“Global lockdown measures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to millions of people contracting tuberculosis (TB) over the coming years, according to a new study.

As many as 6.3 million people are expected to develop TB as cases go undiagnosed and untreated between now and 2025, a study published by Stop TB Partnership on Wednesday showed, with 1.4 million people predicted to die during this time.“

Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown

We being serious here? Who’s inciting panic now? It just isn’t the media folks. I’ve seen the same tactics that we are accusing the media of about the doom and gloom for the economy but this takes the cake.

 

[KenH]

We being serious here? Who’s inciting panic now? It just isn’t the media folks. I’ve seen the same tactics that we are accusing the media of about the doom and gloom for the economy but this takes the cake.

The point is that the folks who say keep the economy locked down until there are is a treatment, or a vaccine, or there are zero new cases - or whatever their ever-moving goalpost is today - do not have the moral high ground in claiming they are the ones who want to save lives. No, their desire would kill WAY more people than smartly reopening the economy would kill.

 

[Scott Downey]

We being serious here? Who’s inciting panic now? It just isn’t the media folks. I’ve seen the same tactics that we are accusing the media of about the doom and gloom for the economy but this takes the cake.

There are billions alive and in other countries, where this can happen. Places like India.

 

[Scott Downey]

The point is that the folks who say keep the economy locked down until there are is a treatment, or a vaccine, or there are zero new cases - or whatever their ever-moving goalpost is today - do not have the moral high ground in claiming they are the ones who want to save lives. No, their desire would kill WAY more people than smartly reopening the economy would kill.

Bill Gates wants a complete economic shutdown and to wait for a vaccine, is what I have read he said. How things could keep going doing that in his mind, like who is going to produce food, so people then starve, driving to doctors, so gas is essential.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, we would have been their prey. So then they want to kill millions. Never let a crisis go to waste. You will taste man flesh, kill the others.

 

[carpro]

1.4 million people predicted to die from tuberculosis due to economic lockdowns.

“Global lockdown measures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to millions of people contracting tuberculosis (TB) over the coming years, according to a new study.

As many as 6.3 million people are expected to develop TB as cases go undiagnosed and untreated between now and 2025, a study published by Stop TB Partnership on Wednesday showed, with 1.4 million people predicted to die during this time.“

Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown

Not to mention a spike in suicides and a dramatic increase in depression.

 

[timtofly]

1.4 million people predicted to die from tuberculosis due to economic lockdowns.

“Global lockdown measures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to millions of people contracting tuberculosis (TB) over the coming years, according to a new study.

As many as 6.3 million people are expected to develop TB as cases go undiagnosed and untreated between now and 2025, a study published by Stop TB Partnership on Wednesday showed, with 1.4 million people predicted to die during this time.“

Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown

Are you going to quote the news when it says millions will die as war breaks out?

 

[InTheLight]

1.4 million people predicted to die from tuberculosis due to economic lockdowns.

As many as 6.3 million people are expected to develop TB as cases go undiagnosed and untreated between now and 2025, a study by Stop TB Partnership on Wednesday showed, with 1.4 million people predicted to die during this time.“

From the article:
10 million people fall ill with TB every year and 1.5 million people die annually from the disease.

* The economic lockdown will not continue until 2025.

* Even if we believe the estimates of 1.4M more people dying from TB in the next 5 years, what's the big deal? If there were no lockdowns the death rate from TB would be 15%. If the report's estimates are true the death rate would be 15.8%. That's a measly 0.8% increase in the death rate. Sorry for the blunt assessment, but if you are going to use death rates as your metric when arguing for opening up the economy because of Covid-19, you can't switch over to total deaths to make a point about TB.

Why would TB cases go undetected for the next 5 years?

 

[Gold Dragon]

The article argues that many cases will go undetected because of lockdowns. However with international travel shut down and home isolation, many infections will be prevented too.

Considering there is effectively no TB in the US, it is lockdowns in india, south east Asia and Africa that will impact TB testing and treatment. US lockdowns will not affect this at all. I bet you don’t really care about how long lockdowns will be in those other countries.

 

[KenH]

I bet you don’t really care about how long lockdowns will be in those other countries.

I bet you I do. I’ve been interested about what is going on around the world since my college days in the 70s.

 

[Yeshua1]

1.4 million people predicted to die from tuberculosis due to economic lockdowns.

“Global lockdown measures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to millions of people contracting tuberculosis (TB) over the coming years, according to a new study.

As many as 6.3 million people are expected to develop TB as cases go undiagnosed and untreated between now and 2025, a study published by Stop TB Partnership on Wednesday showed, with 1.4 million people predicted to die during this time.“

Millions of people are expected to fall ill with tuberculosis due to coronavirus lockdown

The prevention and cure really worse than the result!

 

[KenH]

The prevention and cure really worse than the result!

I heard a doctor being interviewed this morning and he said that for every life lost to COVID-19 there is an additional life being lost due to the lockdown on “elective” surgeries, such as cancer tumor removal and such like.

 

[InTheLight]

I heard a doctor being interviewed this morning and he said that for every life lost to COVID-19 there is an additional life being lost due to the lockdown on “elective” surgeries, such as cancer tumor removal and such like.

Hospitals are starting to do elective surgeries again.

I don't buy the doctor's estimation of one Covid-19 death = one death from delayed elective surgery.

 

[HankD]

when death outnumbers birth then the human race ends if GOD permits.

 

[KenH]

The human race will never end as we know this life on this present earth is not the be all, end all, to our existence.

 

[HankD]

The human race will never end as we know this life on this present earth is not the be all, end all, to our existence.

NOT THE FINAL END

 

[Revmitchell]

The good news is no one is dying ftom anything else this year. Only the chinese wuhan flu.

 

[Calminian]

Not to mention a spike in suicides and a dramatic increase in depression.

Especially in light of a real pandemic with opioids and heroine.

 

[Deacon]

My daughter called last night, she’s been affected by this lockdown.

News Headline
Millions expected to be born as a result of this lockdown!

In another 8 months I’ll be a grandfather again.

Rob

 

[InTheLight]

The good news is no one is dying ftom anything else this year. Only the chinese wuhan flu.