[downerending]

Plus in other countries, they expect a massive uptick in polio, tuberculosis, etc., due to lack of vaccination and treatment.

Some of this is inevitable. Some of this is due to economic lockdown, which will simply crush third-world economies.

[pfdietz]

That makes little sense. If people are isolating for COVID, it's going to knock down transmission of the other infectious diseases too.

[downerending]

It's because they're not getting vaccinated, which makes a big difference.

Believe I also read that there's a vaccination window for TB--it doesn't work for adults. So each year of lowered vaccination coverage matters that much more. Globally a million people die of TB each year.