WHO: Overuse of antibiotics for COVID-19 pandemic will ultimately cause more deaths
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WHO: Overuse of antibiotics for COVID-19 pandemic will ultimately cause more deaths

Increased antibiotic use in combating the COVID-19 pandemic would lead to higher bacterial resistance rates, ultimately impacting the burden of disease and causing more deaths during the pandemic and beyond, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday. 

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated data provided by some countries indicated that the number of bacterial infectious was well concerned, which has become increasingly resistant to the medicines traditionally used to treat them.  

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