US hospital data show nearly 80% of COVID-19 patients get antibioticsNearly 80% of US patients hospitalized for COVID-19 received antibiotics from March through October 2020, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.Using data from the Premiere Healthcare Database Special COVID-19 Release, the researchers found that 77.3% of 213,338 COVID-19 patients treated at 716 US hospitals received at least one antibiotic during their stay, and 81.3% of those who received an antibiotic were started on admission.The antibiotic use rate in COVID-19 patients was 889 days of therapy (DOT) per 1,000 patient-days (PD), with a rate of 932 DOT/1,000 PD among patients admitted to