The substantial increases in antibiotic use observed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in hospitals in three countries in Latin America suggest the need to maintain or strengthen antibiotic stewardship activities as part of pandemic or emergency health care facility responses. That’s the takeaway from an article, “Trends in Inpatient Antibiotic Use Among Adults Hospitalized During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 2018–2021,” co-authored by Stacie C. Stender, MSN, MSc Inf Dis, RN Jhpiego’s Global Team Lead, Global Health Security.

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