PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -FALSE. Antibiotics are effective against bacteria, but they cannot kill viruses. COVID-19 is a disease caused by a virus, and so are the common cold and the flu. Antibiotics cannot help you recover from a viral infection.

Detailed explanation-2: -Viruses don’t have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics; instead they are surrounded by a protective protein coat. Unlike bacteria, which attack your body’s cells from the outside, viruses actually move into, live in and make copies of themselves in your body’s cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria germs and can only treat sickness caused by bacteria, also known as a bacterial infection. This includes strep throat, urinary tract infections (UTI) and many skin infections. Antibiotics don’t work on sickness caused by virus germs, also known as a viral infection.