By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Hospital-related resistant infections and deaths increased at least 15% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing back the progress made in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to a new report by the CDC.
“This report confirms what previous research has suggested: COVID-19 has not only increased the threat of antibiotic resistance; it has undone years of progress, and on a staggering scale,” David Hyun, the director,