Case counts of tuberculosis are trending above average this year. The situation has been further complicated by the coronavirus pandemic and the repeal of a state law that required in-school testing.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation is dispatching health teams to multiple villages in the Y-K Delta this month to test school age kids for tuberculosis. Case counts are trending above average this year. The situation has been further complicated by the coronavirus pandemic and the repeal of a state law that required in-school testing.
But Evelina Achee, the nurse manager at Bethel’s Public Health Center, said that she has found cases in the Y-K Delta with in-school testing. “I have never had this before where we had such very low capacity,” Achee said. “And then a surge of TB, and it’s like since we’re losing so many nurses that it’s even harder for us,” she said.”TB is already a difficult thing to diagnose,” she said, and the coronavirus pandemic has caused further complications — COVID-19 delayed medical care for some people and diverted resources away from public health that would otherwise be available to combat TB.
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