
Drug Use
Antimicrobial Resistance Is Growing because of COVID
Antibiotics won’t work on the virus that causes COVID, but in places like India, their overuse threatens to nullify their effects on other equally deadly pathogens
Madhukar Pai is a professor of epidemiology and global health at McGill University, Canada.
Antibiotics won’t work on the virus that causes COVID, but in places like India, their overuse threatens to nullify their effects on other equally deadly pathogens
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