Antibiotic use during the first 6 months of <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 pandemic in Iran: A large‐scale multi‐centre study

Abstract

In this study, widespread antibiotic use was detected in the absence of the confirmed bacterial coinfection in COVID-19 patients. This over-consumption of broad-spectrum antibiotics may be associated with increased mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, which can be an alarming finding.