U.S. deaths from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, also known as ‘superbugs’, jumped 15% in 2020 as the drugs were widely dispensed to treat COVID\u002D19 and…
Hospital-acquired bacterial infections also rose more than 15% in 2020 from 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Drug resistance occurs with the overuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobials, which allow some bacteria to evolve into “superbugs” that are not affected by the medicines. Almost 80% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 received an antibiotic – even though they are not useful for viral infections – because of the difficulty in distinguishing COVID-19 from pneumonia when patients first arrived at the hospital, the CDC said.
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