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Margaret Joanne McCullough Tiernan

MEREDITH - Margaret Joanne McCullough Tiernan, 87, of Upper Mile Point Drive, passed away unexpectedly early Thursday morning, September 22, 2022, at Concord Hospital-Laconia, with her husband of 65 years,

Health experts concerned about increasingly drug-resistant germs amid pandemic

© Getty Images Health experts are warning that precautionary measures taken to protect people against COVID-19 could be inadvertently furthering the spread of harmful, drug-resistant bacteria and fungi.  According to an analysis published Wednesday by The New York Times, nursing homes and hospitals have not tracked these germs as closely due to diverted attention to the pandemic, and there have been isolated outbreaks of various drug-resistant infections in Florida, New Jersey and California, as well as globally in India, Italy, Peru and France. The Times pointed out that while nursing homes and hospitals early on in the pandemic were consistent with cleaning rooms, changing gowns and other measures to prevent the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, an increased focus on COVID-19, which has infected more than 25.5 million and killed nearly 427,000 nationally, has allowed the germs to spread more so than before. 

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