Data from the California Department of Public Health shows that cases had been in decline until 2020 when they sunk to an all-time low as testing and treatments were largely postponed, and have since sharply gone up year-over-year.
Though the increase has not yet passed pre-pandemic levels, it is nearing them.
“This is a ‘slow burn’ of an age-old disease that’s now increasing, probably because we let our guard down and didn’t emphasize the need for prevention of progression from latent illness to active tuberculosis,” Priya Shete, MD, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of California San Francisco told The Mercury News.
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