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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by hallohallohallo on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:54AM (#22645925)
It is the health care system like number of ICUs, training of doctors and stuff like not being able to get antibiotics simply over the counter like in Italy. If my memory serves me right e.g. in Italy 29% have a resistance to antibiotics, in Germany only 0.4%.
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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by simonh on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:58AM (#22645934)
People don't become resistant to antibiotics, bacteria do and resistant bacteria in Italy would just spread to Germany. Anyway Covid-19 is a virus, not a bacterium.
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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by guiriduro on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:09AM (#22645994)
While its true SARS-CoV-2 is a virus, opportunistic bacterial pneumonia is a secondary complication of Covid19 which increases its lethality. So you need decent antibiotics too.
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Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming by radicalbyte on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:09AM (#22646256)
..and it's nasty, my wife only just recovered from it a week ago after a total of 8 weeks in bed.
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