Researchers at the University of Michigan found that there were high rates of early antibiotic use among COVID-19 patients when they studied 38 hospitals, indicating that unnecessary antibiotic prescribing may be common for pandemic patients, according to a report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Antibiotics are not effective for treating viruses. They should only be prescribed for bacterial infection. It’s disturbing to find that close to 57 percent of patients received antibiotics early in treatment, while only 3.5 percent had a confirmed bacteria-caused illness. In some hospitals, early use was as high as 84 percent. Could high use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics be causing some of the follow-up and long-haul adverse effects of Covid-19 treatment that have been reported? Many symptoms are similar to FQ toxicity. More research needs to be done.