Antibiotic resistance could prove deadlier than COVID-19

There is another epidemic raging alongside COVID-19. This epidemic claims 700,000 lives annually and costs global healthcare systems billions. And we are still a long way from finding a way to halt its deadly progress. The ungainly name of this second epidemic is antimicrobial resistance, or AMR. Simply put, it is the rise of bacteria impervious to antibiotics.
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