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. 2021 May 6:ciab387. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab387
Delayed Tuberculosis Diagnoses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 — King County, Washington
Masahiro Narita
1,2,✉, Grace Hatt
1, Katelynne Gardner Toren
1, Kim Vuong
1, Monica Pecha
3, John A Jereb
4, Neela D Goswami
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Masahiro Narita, MD
1Tuberculosis Control Program, Public Health – Seattle & King County
2Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington
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Grace Hatt, MPH
1Tuberculosis Control Program, Public Health – Seattle & King County
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Katelynne Gardner Toren, MPH
1Tuberculosis Control Program, Public Health – Seattle & King County
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Kim Vuong, RN BSN
1Tuberculosis Control Program, Public Health – Seattle & King County
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Monica Pecha, MPH
3Tuberculosis Control Program, Office of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Washington Department of Health
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John A Jereb, MD
4Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC
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Neela D Goswami, MD
4Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC
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1Tuberculosis Control Program, Public Health – Seattle & King County
2Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington
3Tuberculosis Control Program, Office of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Washington Department of Health
4Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC
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Corresponding author: Masahiro Narita, MD TB Control Program, Public Health – Seattle & King County, 325 – 9th Ave, Campus Box 359776, Seattle, WA 98104, Email: masa.narita@kingcounty.gov
Received 2021 Mar 11.
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