Unobtainable Zithromax, what Bassetti and Burioni say

Zithromax “is not only not an anti-Covid drug because it is an antibiotic, but it is useless in the treatment of coronavirus”. So to Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Genoa, commenting on the alarm for the lack of the medicine in pharmacies where Zithromax is nowhere to be found. Read also “Antibiotics should be used in less than 1% of total Covid cases – explains Bassetti – Today instead people take Zithromax with treatments declined by social media. Take Zithromax, get a tampon or take some lactoferrin . There is total confusion and too much alarmism. We need to put a point and stop this drift: doctors must go back to doing their work and people must follow them “. Bassetti also clarifies it on Facebook: the drug Zithromax * is out of stock because it is prescribed by many doctors and requested by patients to treat Covid. Indeed, worse for those who are positive for the swab even if asymptomatic. The question is: is azithromycin needed in the treatment of Covid? Is there a data or a study that says it’s good for something? What does it heal first? What reduces hospital admissions? What reduces mortality? None of this. Azithromycin is an antibiotic that is used in the treatment of some bacterial infections, but is useless in the treatment of Covid. Do you know what it is for? To produce resistant bacteria, of which Italy is full more than any other European country “.” In viral infections such as Covid, antibiotics must not be used, except in some very selected cases (less than 2% of the total) – specifies the infectious disease specialist – Just use azithromycin and other antibiotics in Covid, because they are not needed. They create resistances and then they are lacking for those who really need them. After the self-prescribed and self-used tampons, here is the DIY with antibiotics. Poor Italy “, says Bassetti.” The antibiotic used to treat Covid-19 is scarce in pharmacies. “News that virologist Roberto Burioni, professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, comments on Twitter as follows:” The fact that a shortage of a drug that does not fall within the guidelines for Covid therapy explains our situation well “.