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Why do some children who are covid positive need antibiotics and other medications to recover from it while some children do not require any medication and they recover?
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Every person reacts differently to an infection. Some have no symptoms at all, others are hospitalized.
Answered 9/1/2021
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Covid by itself is a cold virus that antibiotics does not kill. Someone with a bad cold or viral bronchitis can become infected by common germs that take advantage of the excess mucus made during the illness and need antibiotics to kill those germs. This also occurs in some covid infections.
Answered 9/3/2021
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