The COVID-19 pandemic erased years of progress in combating antibacterial resistance in the US, according to a special report from the CDC.
data were not available for the report, the authors suggest that, based on related CDC data,The Pandemic Created the Perfect Storm
"The threat of antimicrobial-resistant infections has gotten worse, especially in hospitals. During the first year of the pandemic, over 29,400 people died from healthcare-related antimicrobial-resistant infections," Srinivasan said in an email."And almost 40% of those people became infected in the hospital."
"Hospitals were overwhelmed with sick, complex patients requiring prolonged ICU stays, in the face of little data on treatment and rates of bacterial co-infection," Petty, who was not involved in developing the report, told"This led to the perfect storm for antimicrobial resistance: decreased infection prevention optimization, including decreased personal protective equipment and shared rooms; decreased antimicrobial stewardship efforts due to priorities shifted to COVID; and...
"Rates of bacterial co-infection are low in COVID-19, so antibiotics should be used sparingly and not used for typical symptoms of COVID," she added.For Srinivasan and his colleagues, the most important question to answer right now is,"How do we ensure these setbacks are temporary?"
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