@COVID_questions @drvyom Except that these are very different infections: people with pulmonary TB in the absence of treatment can remain infectious for >2 years (see below) - i.e those conditions are more common than one might think - as opposed to #co
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@LangaMancunga @TimModise question is, when were those people infected with TB? TB takes years from onset to death. 3 years according to this study. COVID takes about 14 days from onset to death. There's context to these figures. https://t.co/eVWfJLhlbx
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@12SilverLInIngs You wrote "incurable lung tuberculosis". Pulmonary tuberculosis spontaneously-remits in ~20% of cases, a/k/a "self cure", i.e. goes away without treatment, see ... https://t.co/RbQ4SSP0Jo , ( also n=3 is an utterly negligible sample-size )
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@philiplederer @ruvandhi & 30% of pre-Rx era Sm+ patients survived - a sobering comparison group to some XDR trials https://t.co/INUGgzslWA