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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by puranjay on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:39AM (#22420598)
Our widespread abuse of antibiotics isn't helping. To think that we can go 100 years without a serious pandemic while also abusing antibiotics at an unprecedented scale betrays a sheer disregard for biology and nature.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by rimliu on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:44AM (#22420618)
This is a virus. Antibiotics are for bacterial diseases
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by bencollier49 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:27AM (#22420816)
Although apparently some deaths are the result of opportunistic bacterial secondary infections.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by puranjay on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:40AM (#22420885)
I understand that. But I'm not talking about Coronavirus in particular but the threat of a pandemic in the age of antibiotics.

This one might be a virus but past pandemics like the Black Plague were bacterial in nature.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by grepfru_it on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:50AM (#22421196)
Superbugs in US hospitals escaping due to increased CoronaVirus patients...
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