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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Azithromycin was the standard of care for community acquired pneumonia for years before increasing strep pneumo resistance required a reevaluation in the most recent treatment guidelines.
It would help prevent a bacterial superinfection, which is where I'd bet the clinical benefits arrive from. I'd also bet you'd get similar results using doxycycline without the QT prolongation.
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While talking to the ER Dr yesterday sounds like some patients with COVID are presenting with unilateral pneumonia which is atypical of viral ones making hard to diagnose which one they are dealing with.