The Lancet, which, to put it bluntly, argues that we may well be missing the woods for the trees.The claim is that by focusing all our energies on tackling covid-19, we are understating the extent of the health threat facing countries like India.
This is because there is not one, but two categories of disease which are interacting within specific populations: infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by covid-19, and an array of existing non-communicable diseases (NCDs).