Drug-resistant infections kill almost 1.3m people a year - The Economist, January 22, 2022
A study led by Giorgia Sulis, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, was cited by the Economist.
"…Covid-19 has made things worse, because many people wrongly believe it can be treated with antibiotics. A recent study from a team led by Giorgia Sulis of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Canada looked at how sales of antibiotics for adults increased in India during the first wave of covid-19. They estimated that nervous Indians gobbled down 216m excess doses. An open letter from doctors on January 14th lambasted the country's health authorities for the "wanton" and "unwarranted" use of antimicrobials in response to the Omicron variant. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections, not viruses like SARS- Co V-2."