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You might have seen this meme on social media. It's a bad meme making a deceptive point. Why?

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Because the annual number of TB cases in the US is actually less than 10,000 and has been declining for decades. The number of deaths is ~500. And that is a high mortality rate, which is why we vaccinate for TB.

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I can guarantee you that if 10 million Americans contracted TB a year, killing more than a tenth of them, we absolutely would be adopting serious, society-changing measures to address it.

How do I know that? Because that's what we did a century ago!

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Wondered why it's been so hard to ramp up production of surgical masks and respirators? Why haven't private companies flooded into the market to meet peak demand?

Because they are regulated medical devices & new versions require FDA approval which can take months to obtain. 1/
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I respect @SethCotlar's work, but I think he's off-base here. (We can both start with a baseball nod. ;-)

Why? Because there's a meaningful distinction between conservative ideology and the conservative movement.
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