Abstract
COVID-19 diagnostics—not at the expense of other diseases
Highlights
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating, with WHO reporting 4·9 million cases and 322 000 deaths globally as of May 21, 2020
“We are already seeing massive setbacks to tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria care in many settings, because all the attention and resources are diverted to COVID-19”, he told The Lancet Microbe
Other major infectious diseases are still highly prevalent, with millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths reported for malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis in 2018, mainly in lowincome countries
Summary
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating, with WHO reporting 4·9 million cases and 322 000 deaths globally as of May 21, 2020. “We are already seeing massive setbacks to tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria care in many settings, because all the attention and resources are diverted to COVID-19”, he told The Lancet Microbe.
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