CDC: COVID-19 "Perfect Storm" Against Efforts to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance - Contagionlive.com
7/18/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Kenneth Bender, PharmD, MA
by Kenneth Bender, PharmD, MA
CDC attributes a 15% increase in deaths from antimicrobial-resistant infections in 2020 to impacts of COVID-19 on health and healthcare.
There was an approximate 15% increase in both antimicrobial-resistant infections and in related deaths in the US in 2020, following a previous trend of improvement in both areas. This 2020 trend is a… [+4160 chars]
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