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Are antibiotics effective in preventing and treating the new coronavirus?
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No: SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that causes COVID 19. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections. Thus antibiotics don't treat viral infections.
Answered 5/17/2020
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