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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by downerending on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:04PM (#23098023)
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.

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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by pfdietz on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:27AM (#23102182)
That makes little sense. If people are isolating for COVID, it's going to knock down transmission of the other infectious diseases too.
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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by downerending on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:57AM (#23104461)
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.

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