Antimicrobial resistance is far more dangerous than COVID-19, so what can we do?
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While much of our attention during the past few years has been focused on COVID-19, a more insidious and dangerous pandemic has been spreading unabated: antimicrobial resistance.
A recently published study found that, in 2019, around five million deaths were associated with antibiotic resistance, more than twice those due to COVID-19 in 2020.