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© 2020 AFPCOVID-19 lockdown risks 1.4 mil extra TB deaths: study
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Mr Kipling
Thats OK, Its only Corvid-19 deaths that must be prevented at all costs. Any other diseases are fine. ...sarcasm mode off...
ArtistAtLarge
Yet a million or more people could also die if the lock downs are lifted.
However, the article show this is all speculation.
The answer is as always: solve the problem at hand FIRST. Which is currently the pandemic.
that person
and Burning Bush has made sure to give it even more attention by commenting on each and every article about it
1glenn
The H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918-1920 killed about 100 million people, or 5.6% of the total population at that time, 1.8 billion. The coronavirus pandemic has the potential to cause deaths on that scale, and is the reason so much attention is being paid to it.
It is not that a death from Covid-19 is more important than a death from TB, but that Covid-19 has the potential to cause a hundred times as many deaths in the same amount of time.
If we accept that the current Earth population of humans is 7.8 billion, then a morbidity rate today equal to that from the H1N1 of 1918-1920 would cause more than 400 million deaths, in the amount of time that TB caused 4.5 million deaths.
Tom
Virus' elude brilliant minds. Bacteria is much easier to deal with.