Coronavirus doctors’ overuse of antibiotics could spur resistance and raise death toll

Coronavirus doctors’ overuse of antibiotics could spur resistance and raise death toll



Doctors knew antibiotics weren’t effective against the coronavirus, but they feared patients could develop life-threatening bacterial co-infections and used them anyway, raising concerns about antibiotic resistance. Dr. Jeffrey Strich, a researcher and physician at The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center sits down with Fox News Digital to explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the mounting resistance to antibiotics and how this plight will raise the death toll in the United States.