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Superbugs (aka drug resistant bacteria) cause more deaths every year than HIV or malaria. Poorer countries are struggling the most -- NPR

Read the CDC’s 2019 Report on Superbugs Here

The WSJ Reacts: This Is Bad! If we can’t rely on antibiotics anymore, people may not be able to get routine medical procedures. The risk of a deadly infection would be too great

The NYT: According to the CDC, the superbug problem got worse during the 2020 pandemic

Read the CDC’s report on how the pandemic affected superbugs here

How Did We Get Here? Superbugs Evolved in Part from Us Overusing Antibiotics. While Antibiotics Killed Off Weak Germs, the Strong Ones Emerged

And Nat Geo says the pandemic probably made the problem worse

The Superbug Apocalypse Has Been a Long Time Coming. Why Isn’t the Government Taking This More Seriously? Didn’t We Learn Anything From COVID? -- A Stat News Op

A Monthly Review Op Is Mad: Superbugs Are a “Profit-Driven Plague”!! Drug Companies Pushed Antibiotics to Make Money. Now, Poorer Countries Are Paying the Price

And now, because antibiotics have become super unprofitable, superbugs *will* make the antibiotics we now use useless. The government needs to step in, says an Op in the San Diego Tribune

Agreed, says Bloomberg -- and we should follow England’s lead. England offers companies money for new antibiotics, no matter how many people actually use them

Newsweek disagrees: We need to think about solving the problem entirely differently -- and not just make new antibiotics. That’s what got us into this mess, after all!

Wired: A U.N. report said antibiotics in pollution, food, and resistant bacteria in sewage all play a role in the crisis. Regulating antibiotics in the environment could help

A Diff Wired Article Said the Secret to Beating Superbugs Might Be in AI

Or It Might Be in a Newly Discovered Bacteria Found in the Ultra-Harsh Environment Where the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan Plateau Intersect -- Wired, Again

Cosmos Magazine discusses another alternative: The secret to beating superbugs could involve “sharpening” our immune systems with special proteins that identify and kill off bacteria

Until we find a way to eradicate them for good, this NYT Op says superbugs will inevitably be in our hospitals. But don’t freak totally -- superbug hunters are on the case