COVID-19 pneumonia and the appropriate use of antibiotics

Talking about COVID-19 has become a ritual for everyone. The COVID-19 pandemic has put respiratory illness—infection, pneumonia, and death—in the daily headlines. Many of us have been anticipating and dreading the next global respiratory pandemic. 2019 marked a century since the end of the 1918 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, and many marvelled at the fact that we had made it 100 years without a similar occurrence. Although there have been other global pandemics since, the 1918 influenza pandemic stood out in that it lasted over a year, infected about a third of the world's population, and killed more than 50 million people.