Parallels and Mutual Lessons in Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Transmission, Prevention, and Control

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Hopewell, Philip C. ; Reichman, Lee B. ; Castro, Kenneth G.
• Description:
  The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had unprecedented negative effects on global health and economies, drawing attention and resources from many other public health services. To minimize negative effects, the parallels, lessons, and resources from existing public health programs need to be identified and used. Often underappreciated synergies relating to COVID-19 are with tuberculosis (TB). COVID-19 and TB share commonalities in transmission and public health response: case finding, contact identification, and evaluation. Data supporting interventions for either disease are, understandably, vastly different, given the diseases' different histories. However, many of the evolving issues affecting these diseases are increasingly similar. As previously done for TB, all aspects of congregate investigations and preventive and therapeutic measures for COVID-19 must be prospectively studied for optimal evidence-based interventions. New attention garnered by the pandemic can ensure that knowledge and investment can benefit both COVID-19 response and traditional public health programs such as TB programs.
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Coronavirus Infections Covid-19 Global Health Humans Pandemics Preventive Health Services Strategic Planning Tuberculosis
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(3):681-686
• Pubmed ID:
  33213689
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7920655
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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  urn:sha256:0d138c0bd0be2b4501446aa93c504ce53e0b68f1b67f6d4c9117c5a1cd0b9c10
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/104043/cdc_104043_DS1.pdf
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