Bassetti: “Too many antibiotics used against Covid. Resistance to drugs has been created, it is a disaster “

“We are in the post-pandemic phase full of antibiotic-resistant because we have used these drugs too much and badly”

Genoa – “Attention with antibiotics” in Covid-19 therapy. “We made a mess with azithromycin”, because “we used it like anti-inflammatories. They used it because it is a macrolide and has a very pronounced anti-inflammatory activity “, but” to do anti-inflammatory activity you have to use anti-inflammatories. Be careful to use an antibiotic because we create resistance “.

The warning is re-launched by Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the San Martino hospital in Genoa, guest of ‘Buongiorno Benessere’ on Rai1. “Today we are in a post-pandemic phase full of antibiotic-resistant also because antibiotics have been used too much and badly“, underlines the expert.

“Against Covid they should not be used – he repeats – Less than 1% of the total Covid cases need an antibiotic. If you consider that in my ward only 2 make an antibiotic out of the total hospitalized, let alone at home: practically nobody has to do the antibiotic at home“.