Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic could herald a rise in superbugs
Friday, May 15, 2020 - 07:50
in Health & Medicine
Copious use of hand sanitizer and disinfectant is crucial to fight COVID-19, but it could be setting Canada back in the battle against superbugs. Microbiologists say antimicrobial resistant organisms, or superbugs, are a pandemic on the same scale as COVID-19, though it will play out on a much longer timeline.