Prognosis
Antibiotics for Covid Cases Worsen India’s Superbug Crisis
- Researchers find ‘alarming’ rates of drug-resistant infections
- Covid may have weakened hospitals’ infection-control practices
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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.