Covid medicine

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Covid medicine

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Dear doctor government is prescribed Doxycycline (antibiotic) for covid treatment . Why can't they prescribed anti viral drugs instead of antibiotics...?

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Dr. Garima Kalway General Physician 5 yrs exp Jabalpur Consult Now · Accepted Answer

Dr. Garima Kalway

General Physician 5 yrs exp Jabalpur

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Hi, there is no specific anti-viral drug for covid till now. These antibiotics have proved to reduce mortality i.e. deaths in a lot of mild to moderate cases of covid. Therefore these drugs have been added to treatment protocol

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