TB cases nearly back to pre-pandemic levels in U.S

STAT (3/23, Branswell, Subscription Publication) reports, “Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest the pandemic effect has pretty much worn off,” and that “TB is nearly back to pre-2020 levels” in the U.S. Philip LoBue, director of the CDC’s division of tuberculosis elimination, told STAT in an interview, “We’re getting … close to where we were pre-pandemic; not quite back yet with increases in cases in the last two years. … Everything looks like we’re going to end up maybe next year or the year after basically back to the situation we were in pre-pandemic.” These data were published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.