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The head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says that antibiotics have been misused in treatment during the corona virus. This did not lead to a significant improvement in the condition of the patients, but the silent spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the risks associated with it certainly increased.
Antimicrobial resistance is a condition where antibiotics become ineffective in preventing many types of infections. According to the World Health Organization report, only eight percent of patients hospitalized due to Corona had infections caused by bacteria. Treatment of this infection is possible with antibiotics, but even so, three out of four Corona patients, that is, 75 percent, received antibiotics only in the hope that it might be useful.
Those who did not suffer from bacterial infection suffered from loss of…
According to the World Health Organization, the use of antibiotics in patients suffering from corona did not improve the situation, but in those people who did not suffer from a bacterial infection, these drugs definitely caused damage. These findings are based on the analysis of data obtained from the Global Platform for COVID-19 created by the World Health Organization. These data were obtained from four and a half lakh patients in 65 countries between January 2020 and March 2023.
More harm than help when not needed…According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antibiotics are only necessary to treat certain infections caused by bacteria, while some infections caused by bacteria cannot be treated with this antibiotic. This antibiotic does not work on viruses such as colds, flu or covid-19. In such a situation, when antibiotics are not needed, they cause more harm to health instead of helping.
