On the morning of March 13, “Jilin Daily”-Daji.com reported that there were positive cases of medical staff and hospitalized tuberculosis patients in Jilin Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital. According to public information, Jilin Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital (Jilin Provincial Hospital of Infectious Diseases) is the only tertiary tuberculosis specialist hospital in the province. According to incomplete statistics from a reporter from the People’s Daily Health Client, as of now, there have been 4 cases of tuberculosis patients infected with new coronary pneumonia in the country.
Nucleic acid testing in various communities in Changchun City, according to Jilin Daily
“Pulmonary tuberculosis patients are generally thinner and have weaker immunity than ordinary people, so such patients are more likely to be infected.” Deputy Director of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Physician Hu Yang told the People’s Daily Health Client reporter, but in general, you don’t need to worry too much about infection, because the use of anti-tuberculosis drugs is generally not affected by the new crown infection. Patients with severe tuberculosis should be careful, because virus infection will further damage the body’s immunity force, resulting in aggravation of the condition.
People’s Daily Health Client reporter found that according to public information, on July 30, 2021, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province found 1 case of nucleic acid test positive, and later found 5 people with abnormal nucleic acid tests. One of them was an inpatient in the Sixth People’s Tuberculosis Combination Department of Zhengzhou City; on October 11, 2020, 3 new asymptomatic cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia were added in Qingdao, and one of them was hospitalized in the Municipal Chest Hospital for pulmonary tuberculosis; in addition, According to the article “One Case of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Combined with Pulmonary Tuberculosis” published by Zhang Jiaxiang et al. A case of pulmonary tuberculosis.
“If a person infected with the new coronavirus also develops pneumonia in the later stage, and such a patient is combined with pulmonary tuberculosis, it will be more serious, and the treatment will be more difficult and complicated, especially the severe new coronary pneumonia, some Severe cases may need to be treated with hormones, but hormone therapy may aggravate the condition of tuberculosis.” Li Tong, chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Beijing You’an Hospital, once told reporters that if patients with new coronavirus infection have mild symptoms and do not develop pneumonia, then No need to worry too much.