On Mar. 20, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that tuberculosis (TB) incidence in the U.S. had steadily declined since 1993, but the pace of decline had slowed in recent years.

The U.S. TB rate during 2019 declined to 2.7 cases per 100,000 persons, the lowest level on record. However, the annual pace of decline (-1.6% from 2018) remains slow, particularly among TB cases that are attributed to reactivation of latent TB infection