In the shadow of coronavirus, remembering the toll of TB
As news of the spreading COVID-19 pandemic began to crowd out every other thought, I went searching for my paternal grandmother.
More specifically, I sought to understand the struggle she faced to stay alive, hoping it would give me resolve in these uncertain times.
You see, Grandmother suffered from the most feared communicable disease of her generation: tuberculosis.
One thing I discovered was that the public health systems that
