It is the government's responsibility to protect the lives of We The People, whenever possible.

The NWS and NOAA have developed and maintained an effective, lifesaving system. It benefits ALL PEOPLE in the US to continue to fund weather alerts.

The attack must stop!

The other weird quirk about "beating records" is that these records only go back to the 1950s when we started collecting data on TB. Before then, it was so common they didn't record it, so the largest outbreaks are almost certainly before then, but there's no way to quantify that

Yeah I agree, it definitely shouldn't be minimized. Here's hoping we don't break that record and that the outbreak can be contained 🤞

No, that's active cases only. The CDC estimates that there are approximately 13 MILLION latent cases of TB in the US right now (which is also crazy)

"For me, hope is not some abstract concept. It is a prerequisite for my survival."

I feel this very deeply. Your book is already having a big impact on TB awareness, I hope you can see it!

There's an editor note on that article now correcting that it is not the largest outbreak in US history

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