Outpatient antibiotic prescribing dropped during pandemic

The number of antibiotics prescribed in Australia fell by up to 38% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Monash Health researchers Their research, presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal, (23-26 April) and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, found that average winter month prescribing