Fewer antibiotic prescriptions were prescribed for respiratory symptoms during the pandemic than in the comparable pre-pandemic period, in a study of ambulatory clinic patients of the University of Wisconsin Health system in southern Wisconsin.

Alexander Lepak, MD, Assistant Professor, Infections Disease Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, and colleagues found that while antibiotic prescribing rates increased during the pre-pandemic winter respiratory viral season, they decreased in the short-term and remained low throughout the corresponding pandemic period.

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