As the COVID-19 there is no treatment, but we can used antibiotics for prevention the secondary bacterial complication.
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All that the virus does is to steal, kill and destroy. It steals metabolic intermediates from its infected host cell to assemble itself, leading to cell exhaustion; the cell dies and is destroyed. Antibiotics have specific targets (magic bullets). The virus has no such target so antibiotics have no effect on them. Which is why it bothers some of us that hydroxychloroquine; an antiplasmadial compound with a well-defined cellular target could be presumed to be effective against COVID-19. Maybe, there is something we are missing in all this.
The antibiotic does not affect the virus, but rather stimulates immunity. There are two types of treatment that may help in this.
Antibiotics do not work against virus. They work only on bacterial infection. As COVID 19 is caused by a virus, so antibiotics should not be used as a means of prevention and treatment of COVID 19. Hence, antibiotics are not effective in preventing and treating of 2019 coronavirus that causes the respiratory illness COVID-19.
In the autumn-winter period, with a periodic decrease in the body's resistance and / or an increase in the development of infectious diseases, most respiratory diseases are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Viruses are not classified as living organisms. Alternatively, if at the same time the same person suffers from both viral and bacterial diseases in the absence of other effective medical treatments, then antibiotics are used. So it can happen that a person who has been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus suffers from Covid-19 disease and at the same time suffers from another disease, i.e. comorbid disease, which is a disease caused by bacteria, it may be justified to use antibiotic-based therapy if no other more effective medical therapy is known and possible.
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No. Antibiotics do not work against viruses; they only work on bacterial infections. COVID-19 is caused by a virus, so antibiotics do not work. Antibiotics should not be used as a means of prevention or treatment of COVID-19.
Source: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses
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Antibiotics are mainly used against bacteria but not against virus. Hence antibiotics can not be effective against corona virus.
Antibiotics are not used for treatment against viruses. As COVID 19 is a virus, therefore antibiotics should not be used for its prevention or treatment. Antibiotics may be given to fight against bacterial infection as a secondary complication if a person develops it during SARS-CoV-2 suffering.
No. According to the World Health Organization, antibiotics do not work against viruses. They only work on bacterial infections. COVID-19 is caused by a virus, so antibiotics do not work. Antibiotics should not be used as a means of prevention or treatment of COVID-19. They should only be used as directed by a physician to treat a bacterial infection.
Yes, of course, I believe that different antibiotic therapy regime with a potent antibiotic may help in increase improvement rate, as virus attack the immunity of the body and make it more vulnerable for opportunistic infection which that could be one cause for high fever.
Some antibiotics and other chemicals have antiviral properties in vitro against SARS-CoV-2. Some work against other viruses in vivo even; e.g. resveratrol in hogs for pseudorabies. But, to date, none are considered effective in clinical studies and use. That's why vaccine work has taken center field, and is probably the most massive research effort ever taken worldwide.
Antibiotics do not work against viruses. So, vaccines use to boost our body immune system.
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