https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1341393217263177731?s=20

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    4 years ago

    WHO THE HELL USES ANTIBIOTICS ON A VIRUS

    This makes me so mad.

    • coolfuzzylemur [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      From the article:

      Azithromycin, a common antibiotic used to treat chest and sinus infections, has been used during the pandemic to prevent co-infection of hospitalized coronavirus patients and to treat inflammatory symptoms of severe infections.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        4 years ago

        America has <5% of the world's population and uses 50% of the world's antibiotics. I wonder how other countries avoid infections!

        • Cysioland [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          America has <5% of the world’s population and uses 50% of the world’s antibiotics

          Isn't that because of the factory farming?

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            4 years ago

            Largely that, but partly because our doctors make it rain prescriptions. See @crunkfresh's reply ITT.

            It's not a mystery how American hospitals are where most of these drug-resistant "superbugs" are coming from.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Azithromycin was used to treat symptoms of SARS/MERS in the past so this isn't without precedent.

      Also it was marketed as a miracle drug during the AIDS crisis if anyone remembers that.