Volume 32, Number 3—March 2026
Research
Tuberculosis before and during COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, 2010–2023
Pei-Jean I. Feng
, Christina R. Phares, Robert Pratt, and Julie L. Self
, Christina R. Phares, Robert Pratt, and Julie L. Self
Table 2
Demographic characteristics of persons with tuberculosis disease reported to the National TB Surveillance System, by origin of birth, United States, 2010–2023*
| Characteristic | US-born, no. (%) persons |
Non–US-born, no. (%) persons |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–2019 | 2020–2023 | 2010–2019 | 2020–2023 | ||
| All |
32,083 |
8,599 |
63,990 |
24,341 |
|
| Sex | |||||
| M | 20,668 (64) | 5,384 (63) | 37,839 (59) | 14,914 (61) | |
| F |
11,414 (36) |
3,213 (37) |
26,142 (41) |
9,421 (39) |
|
| Age group, y | |||||
| 0–4 | 2,314 (7) | 680 (8) | 313 (0) | 75 (0) | |
| 5–14 | 1,240 (4) | 442 (5) | 763 (1) | 263 (1) | |
| 15–24 | 2,948 (9) | 951 (11) | 6,650 (10) | 2,275 (9) | |
| 25–44 | 6,932 (22) | 2,037 (24) | 22,727 (36) | 7,795 (32) | |
| 45–64 | 11,256 (35) | 2,501 (29) | 18,378 (29) | 7,090 (29) | |
| >65 |
7,392 (23) |
1,986 (23) |
15,156 (24) |
6,842 (28) |
|
| Race or ethnicity† | |||||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 1,176 (4) | 382 (4) | 9 (0) | 5 (0) | |
| Asian | 1,331 (4) | 442 (5) | 30,325 (47) | 10,614 (44) | |
| Black or African American | 12,148 (38) | 2,892 (34) | 8,664 (14) | 2,953 (12) | |
| White | 10,254 (32) | 2,351 (27) | 2,871 (4) | 1,043 (4) | |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 299 (1) | 180 (2) | 596 (1) | 352 (1) | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 6,595 (21) | 2,183 (25) | 20,986 (33) | 8,691 (36) | |
| Multiple race | 214 (1) | 111 (1) | 370 (1) | 437 (2) | |
*2010–2019 is the period before the COVID-19 pandemic; 2020–2023 is the period during the COVID-19 pandemic. †Persons who identified as Hispanic or Latino were categorized as Hispanic, regardless of self-reported race. Persons who did not identify as Hispanic or Latino were categorized by self-reported race; if >1 race was reported, the person was categorized as multiple race.
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