A closer look

Slapping a powerful antibiotic on every cloudy urine sample in a nursing home is a fantastic way to kill the elderly. Most seniors have harmless bacteria living in their bladders, but aggressively treating this asymptomatic presence wipes out their good gut flora. This horrific lack of prescriptive restraint directly paves the way for Clostridioides difficile, a notoriously deadly superbug that thrives once the healthy microbiome is nuked.