
Could COVID-19 research help to end the tuberculosis epidemic?
World leaders have set an ambitious target of ending the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030 and that effort could be boosted by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report by the World Health Organization published this month, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB in 2019, though that number continues to fall each year. Funding towards the fight against COVID-19 has seen vast amounts of money put towards overlapping research and technology that could also help countries to elim