Antibiotic Use Ran High In Early Days Of COVID-19, Despite Viral Cause
Many doctors have used antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, but that's largely unnecessary — and could even promote drug-resistant germs.
Doctors treating COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic often reached for antibiotics. But those drugs were not helpful in most cases, and overuse of antibiotics is a serious concern.
Several research groups, at , the and , have observed this trend. Now researchers at the Pew Charitable Trusts have and put those findings in the context of long-term worries about the fate
