The New Superbug Threat
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Long before the Covid pandemic, another global health disaster was brewing, threatening to kill millions of people annually. Superbugs – germs even our most potent antibiotics can’t defeat – pose a massive challenge to human health and wellbeing. The coronavirus, of course, isn’t stopped by antibiotics, which target bacteria. Even so, antibiotics have been used liberally for Covid-19 patients. Jason Gale reports that could worsen the superbug crisis.
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| 0:34.9 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Francesca Levy. Laura Carlson is out. It's day 99 since coronavirus was |
| 0:42.8 | declared a global pandemic. Our main story, viruses like SARS-CoV-2, the one that causes COVID-19, |
| 0:51.0 | can't be treated by antibiotics. Even so, doctors have used antibiotics on many COVID patients, |
| 0:57.7 | and that has scary implications for a whole other health crisis. |
| 1:02.4 | Superbugs. |
| 1:03.8 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:07.1 | Thank you. today. |
| 1:20.4 | In Florida, COVID-19 cases soared to their highest weekly level yesterday. |
| 1:26.0 | Governor Ronda Santos says the jump in numbers is partly an illusion caused by the state ramping up testing. |
| 1:28.8 | And he says isolated outbreaks in prisons, long-term care facilities and agriculture communities, may be skewing the numbers |
| 1:34.8 | higher. |
| 1:36.6 | But a Bloomberg news analysis of publicly available data suggests those factors aren't the cause. |
| 1:43.0 | The percentage of tests coming back positive has jumped, |
| 1:46.1 | undermining the idea that more testing is to blame. And as for prisons, care facilities, and |
| 1:51.2 | agriculture workers, cases are up dramatically even when you exclude those communities. In fact, |
| 1:58.0 | without those examples, the rate of increase would be even more dramatic. |
| 2:03.1 | In Beijing, a coronavirus outbreak that infected more than 150 people, has been contained, according to Chinese disease experts. |
| 2:12.4 | The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said more cases will be confirmed in the coming days, |
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