A leading Canadian microbiologist is sounding an alarm about overuse of precious antibiotics among the world's more than 8.7 million cases of COVID-19. Canadian infectious disease physicians say guidelines suggest a limited role for antibiotics in COVID-19 cases. The solution has two parts, he said: Stewardship — that is, only using antibiotics when needed — and discovering new antibiotics. To start filling the gap, Dr. Giorgia Sulis, an infectious disease physician and doctoral candidate in epidemiology at McGill University, reviewed 10,000 studies with her team. Both Brown and Sulis recognize another consideration: the infectious disease burden in other parts of the world is also much higher than in Canada.

Source: CBC News June 21, 2020 08:00 UTC