Super Gonorrhea May Be Spreading From Antibiotic Overuse For Covid-19 Coronavirus

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But it looks like the trending stemmed from a WHO spokesperson telling The Sun that the overuse of azithromycin and the lack of services to treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic may be fueling the rise of super gonorrhea. Not the Sun as in that fiery ball in the sky that you shouldn’t look at even during an eclipse but The Sun as in the U.K. publication.

Indeed, use azithromycin more often can select for more resistant versions of N. gonorrhoeae. Remember earlier this year when some were touting the use azithromycin along with hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19? And some political leaders jumped on this bandwagon? This was even before well-constructed and executed clinical studies were done to assess the safety and efficacy of such medications for treating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) infections. So this was an example of premature medication. Since then clinical studies have not found enough evidence to support such use. In a commentary in The Lancet, Catherine E. Oldenburg, PhD, an Assistant Professor and Thuy Doan, MD, PhD, an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF) concluded “for patients with Covid-19, the addition of azithromycin to existing standard of care regimens does not appear to improve outcomes,” after reviewing results from the COALITION II trial that evaluated adding azithromycin to hydroxychloroquine and standard of care to treat patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19.

As a result of the scientific evidence that has subsequently emerged, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel now “recommends against the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin for the treatment of Covid-19” in hospitalized or non-hospitalized patients.

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