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Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak

Regular archivers are sad today, I've upload the PDF of the article page here.

A fairly strongly worded opinion article by a clinician and associate professor.

Let's hope she's wrong, but the argument she provides sounds plausible.

Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/28/chinese-hospitals-pandemic-outbreak-pneumonia/Open link View original on lemmy.cafe

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lemmydripzdotz123

It's antibiotic-resistant pneumonia, if you don't want to click.

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GingaNinga reply

don't know why you're getting downvoted, antibiotic resistant bugs are in almost every hospital now. what would make it newsworthy is if there were a new one or multidrug resistant.

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athos77 reply

[the] M. pneumoniae in China has mutated to a strain resistant to macrolides, the only class of antibiotics that are safe for children less than eight years of age.

Which would explain why it's going kids who are overwhelming the hospitals.

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PDF link doesn't work for me

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Here's a new link. That first one seems to have been forcefully expired.

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