Asad Zaidi, Interactive Research & Development, PakistanBefore Covid-19, there was a much older, deadly respiratory killer. “The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to unwind the gains we have made. Speaking at the UNGA event, Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of WHO’s Global TB Programme, presented a WHO analysis on impact of COVID-19 on TB deaths. Together, Covid-19 and TB pose a deadly, dual threat - a syndemic that feeds on social inequities and poverty. As I have argued earlier, all health research cannot be about a pandemic or infectious threats, and all infectious-disease research cannot be about Covid-19.

Source: Forbes September 26, 2020 11:26 UTC