Patients with COVID-19 had a higher risk for hospital-onset antibiotic-resistant infections compared with patients with influenza-like illness before the pandemic, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
“Given the frequent use of antibiotics among hospitalized patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19, our objective was to estimate the frequency of bacterial and fungal coinfections among these patients, estimate the frequency of certain antibiotic-resistant infections typically associated with health care for these patients, and compare the frequency of certain