BU Today: How prevalent is Lyme disease?
Pranay Sinha: Lyme disease is most common in the northeastern United States. The number of reported cases is likely an underestimate of actual cases. Some estimates put the annual Lyme cases at about 300,000 per year.
BU Today: Has COVID-19 affected the incidence of Lyme? One might assume it dropped last year as people curtailed outdoor activities, but as caregivers and hospitals were swamped with COVID patients, did the capacity to treat Lyme and other diseases suffer?
Pranay Sinha: The impact of COVID-19 on Lyme disease remains to be described through epidemiological studies. It is certainly possible that reduction in outdoor activities such as camping and hiking may have decreased the incidence of Lyme disease.
Mass. residents from India, Brazil watch COVID-19 horrors unfold in their native countries
By Laura Crimaldi and Lucas Phillips Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent,Updated May 2, 2021, 1 hour ago
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In Shrewsbury, Sewa International volunteers Kumar Subramanian (left) and Geena Virmani called another volunteer in India as they tried to locate a hospital bed for a patient they are trying to help.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Her uncle is dead and her parents both fell ill, victims of the second COVID-19 wave in India that in the past week has produced
daily averages of 371,000 new cases and 3,300 deaths.
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