The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic gave a boost to superbug infections, as cases and deaths from drug-resistant bacterial and fungal infections rose in 2020, says the CDC.
Overall, superbug infections and deaths among hospitalized patients rose 15 percent from 2019 to 2020. One group of bacteria that causes blood and urinary tract infections and pneumonia spiked 80 percent; other rose by 30 percent or more.
Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria and fungi defeat drugs created to kill them, explained CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD. “Antimicrobial resistance was one of our greatest public health concerns prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains so.” The fight against superbugs was making progress before COVID-19 hit. That’s partly because doctors gave antibiotics to patients – but those work against bacteria, not viruses. High use of antibiotics can lead to drug resistance.
Some patients recovered from COVID-19 and then died of a drug-resistant infection, Arjun Srinivasan, MD, of the CDC toldThe pandemic also stretched medical resources, which could have been a factor, as well. “The COVID pandemic has many more ramifications than we thought other than COVID infection itself,” Luis Ostrosky, MD, the infectious diseases division chief at the McGovern Medical School in Houston, toldAlmost 30,000 people died of the drug-resistant infections in 2020, the CDC reported. Almost 40 percent got infected in a hospital.
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