The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported last week that infections and deaths from some of the most antibiotic-resistant pathogens in U.S. hospitals jumped by at least 15% during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.. Science magazine reports..

A surge in hospital-acquired infections in the U.S. increased the number of deaths from them in 2020 to 29,400 and marked a watershed after the decline in the number of "

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According to a CDC spokesman, the reasons for the surge could be the overwork of hospital workers forced to ignore sanitary measures, and the lack of personal protective equipment.. Similar problems at the height of the epidemic were in almost every hospital on the planet where patients with COVID-19 were treated..

It is antibiotic-resistant microbes, considered among the most dangerous, that have led to the largest increase in the frequency of nosocomial infections..

In particular, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter infections increased by 78%. There are 7,500 cases in the US. Germ commonly infects patients on ventilators, such as those hospitalized with COVID-19.

Earlier it was reported that German researchers are close to creating a method of treating resistant infections using bacteriophage viruses and creating a safe technology for their cultivation..

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