Antibiotic resistance is the hidden threat lurking behind COVID-19

Dr. Gerberding, past Director of the CDC, warns that while the current SARS-CoV-2 crisis demands attention to the development of vaccines and antiviral therapeutics, she raises the caution that most people may succumb to a bacterial infection secondary to the primary viral infection.   As in the past respiratory viral pandemics including the Spanish flu of 2918-19 (Morens, Taubenberger, and Fauci, 2008) most influenza fatalities were caused by secondary bacterial infections.  As Dr. Gerberding warns, in the days of multi-drug resistant bacteria, caution during this COVID-19 epidemic dictates that new agents for these MDR bacteria are crucial.  Trana stands ready to assist in this discovery of such precision antibiotics.

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