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Doctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand — often antibiotics that arent used in other countries for Covid-19. Whats more, the chaos of overrun hospitals means staff cant always take precautions to ensure infections dont spread from one patient to the next.
Excessive use of the world’s most potent antibiotics has stoked drug-resistant infections in India for years. Now the country’s Covid crisis has put the calamity into hyperdrive. A first look at how many patients hospitalized during India’s first coronavirus wave also developed bacterial and fungal infections found that a small but alarming proportion harbor germs that resist multiple drugs. Doctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand often antibiotics that aren’t used in other countries for Covid-19. What’s more, the chaos of overrun hospitals means staff can’t always take precautions to ensure infections don’t spread from one patient to the next.
Antibiotics for Covid-19 cases worsen India’s crisis
Bloomberg
May 26 |
Updated on
May 26, 2021
Fear of missing a secondary infection and lack of specific therapy leading to overprescription: study
Excessive use of the world’s most potent antibiotics has stoked drug-resistant infections in India for years. Now the country’s Covid crisis has put the calamity into hyperdrive.
A first look at how many patients hospitalised during India’s first coronavirus wave also developed bacterial and fungal infections found that a small but alarming proportion harbour germs that resist multiple drugs.
Doctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand often antibiotics that aren’t used in other countries for Covid-19. What’s more, the chaos of overrun hospitals means staff can’t always take precautions to ensure infections don’t spread from one patient to the next.