TY - JOUR AU - Yadav, Siddharth Raj AU - Kumar, Rohit AU - Gupta, Nitesh AU - Ish, Pranav AU - Chakrabarti, Shibdas AU - Kumar, Amit PY - 2020/05/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - COVID-19: Avoiding a second tragedy in a tuberculosis burdened country JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 2 SE - COVID-19 - Collection of articles on the Coronavirus outbreak DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1338 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1338 SP - AB - <p><strong>To the Editor</strong><br>Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first notified in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Now, it has spread rapidly and has been declared a pandemic affecting over 200 countries with widespread morbidity and mortality. It has been postulated that the most vulnerable population are the elderly, people living in crowded areas, children and immune-compromised individuals, such as people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The correlation of tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malnutrition are well documented and hence, people with tuberculosis should be considered as special population in this pandemic. TB is an ancient disease among humans recorded as far back as seventy thousand years which was declared a global public health emergency in 1993 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). India has the highest TB burden in the world.</p> ER -