Antibiotic Use Among Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in the United States, March 2020–June 2022.

We conducted a retrospective study to describe antibiotic use among US adults hospitalized with a COVID-19 diagnosis. Despite a decrease in overall antibiotic use, most patients hospitalized with COVID-19 received antibiotics on admission (88.1%) regardless of critical care status, highlighting that more efforts are needed to optimize antibiotic therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]