Incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis under the regular COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven public health intervention strategies, including keeping social distance, wearing masks in crowded places, and having good health habits, to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). However, it is unknown whether the use of these intervention strategies influences morbidity in other human infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis.

Methods

In this study, three prediction models were constructed to compare variations in PTB incidences after January 2020 without or with intervention includes strict and regular interventions, when the COVID-19 outbreak began in China. The non-interventional model was developed with an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model that was trained with the monthly inciden

SUBMITTER: Wu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9308895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature