In 2021, the United States reported 7,882 TB cases and an incidence rate of 2.4 cases per 100,000 persons, which represents a 9.9% and 9.8% increase, respectively, compared with 2020 (TB Incidence and Mortality: 1953–2021).
In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, drastic changes in immigration and travel, health care and public health services, social exposures, and mortality occurred, which probably led to a combination of TB underdiagnosis and a true reduction in TB incidence in the United States. In 2021, the partial rebound in TB incidence in the United States is probably explained by many of the same factors that affected TB incidence in 2020, but to a lesser degree, including an increase in diagnoses of TB for which symptoms began in 2020 but were not detected until 2021.
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