I thought pneumonia was a condition / symptom / cluster of symptoms, not a disease. You can have pneumonia caused by COVID-19, or pneumonia caused by a bacterial infection, or pneumonia caused by some other viral infection, etc. It’s confusing because there’s a so-called “pneumonia vaccine”. It’s really a “vaccine against a particular bacterial infection that often causes pneumonia”. You can correct me if I’m wrong :)
Having a respiratory infection makes you much more vulnerable to bacterial pneumonia secondary infection which is what is being seen in a lot of the deadly cases.
This not-particularly-reliable source says “So far, there have been very few concurrent or subsequent bacterial infections, unlike Influenza where secondary bacterial infections are common and a large source of additional morbidity and mortality”. So … I guess the doctors were giving antibiotics as a preventive measure that turned out to be unnecessary? Maybe??
I thought pneumonia was a condition / symptom / cluster of symptoms, not a disease. You can have pneumonia caused by COVID-19, or pneumonia caused by a bacterial infection, or pneumonia caused by some other viral infection, etc. It’s confusing because there’s a so-called “pneumonia vaccine”. It’s really a “vaccine against a particular bacterial infection that often causes pneumonia”. You can correct me if I’m wrong :)
Having a respiratory infection makes you much more vulnerable to bacterial pneumonia secondary infection which is what is being seen in a lot of the deadly cases.
This not-particularly-reliable source says “So far, there have been very few concurrent or subsequent bacterial infections, unlike Influenza where secondary bacterial infections are common and a large source of additional morbidity and mortality”. So … I guess the doctors were giving antibiotics as a preventive measure that turned out to be unnecessary? Maybe??
Thanks for explaining!!