The Guidelines for Antibiotic Treatment for Cap and Outpatient Pneumonia

For healthy adults without underlying comorbidities or risk factors for antibiotic-resistant pathogens, the guidelines recommend amoxicillin or doxycycline. A macrolide can be used but really should only be used in areas where pneumococcal resistance to macrolides is less than 25%. And we have a question from a listener who asked: What advice would you give for antibiotic stewardship in patients with COVID-19 pandemic? There have actually been a few large observational studies and at least one meta-analysis now that seemed to demonstrate that con-commitment of community acquired bacterial infection seems to be relatively infrequent on early presentation. Unfortunately this becomes more nuanced when considering critically ill