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Only in some countries. Somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the entire population of the world is infected with TB. Covid ~~only~~ made this worse in part because access to treatment became less consistent from 2020-2022.
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My point with this comment was that TB never "became history" outside of the imperial core. It has long posed the single highest healthcare burden from a single infectious disease despite being virtually unknown in the imperial core.
Covid temporarily unseated TB from its number 1 spot, but this wasn't because the TB burden was relieved and people were cured. The healthcare burden of covid has decreased (not because it went away) and now TB is number 1 again.
Covid made it worse because Covid is causing mass immune dysregulation.
That AND it disrupted access to healthcare for people with active infections. We're not talking people can't drive 15 minutes to get treatments, we're talking multiple days of travel to other towns.
This travel time was already a barrier to their access to care. Disruptions to travel, medical supplies, and quarantines from covid have also added to this burden.
TB disproportionately affects countries that have been heavily exploited by the imperial core.