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Tackle antimicrobial resistance with a pandemic-style mobilization

Solving the public health crisis will take time, money and cooperation.
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  1. David Hyun

    1. David Hyun directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ antibiotic-resistance project. Pew Charitable Trusts is a non-partisan, global nongovernmental organization that seeks to improve public policy and inform the public.

Some pathogenic threats, such as COVID-19, are difficult to anticipate. A number of scientists did warn that a pandemic would eventually come our way, but its timing and its precise form were unknown. Even so, multiple vaccines were developed and deployed with extraordinary speed, largely thanks to unprecedented funding and years of foundational vaccine research. By contrast, the specific and wide-reaching dangers posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been known about and anticipated for as long as we’ve had the drugs themselves.

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Nature 612, S32 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04212-3

This article is part of Nature Index 2022 Biomedical sciences, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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