Figure 4.

Total use of antibiotics belonging to a restricted list in COVID-19 wards, during the first year of the pandemic (Days 2020) compared with total use within the same wards during the two pre-pandemic years (days 2018, days 2019). Y axis is in logarithmic scale. It can be noticed that in 2020 the use of each antibiotic was constant or even lower than the years before, despite an increase in beds, apart from dalbavancin and ertapenem. Both antibiotics are easily managed in a day hospital setting, as they have, respectively, weekly and daily intake.