Bid to lower COVID-19 deaths

(Flinders University) Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in patients with COVID-19 can lead to death but more than 50% of these cases are associated with co-infection with bacterial pathogens.A new investigation at Flinders University in Australia is looking at why the presence of bacterial pathogens seems to predispose individuals to severe COVID-19, seeking to reduce the rising toll by focusing on the role of bacterial infection before infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus - and what impact the...