The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis Has a Troubling Twist
WiredJUL 2023
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
Market forces alone are not enough to ensure that essential drugs needed to protect public health will be produced. This legislation would guarantee that funds are made available to continue to develop and produce treatments for drug-resistant bacteria and fungi.
Establishment-critical narrative
While it is important to encourage pharmaceutical companies to produce antibiotics, this type of legislation is not the answer. It fails to set the minimum requirements of acceptable clinical trial standards and is essentially just a giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry.
Metaculus Prediction
There is a 50% chance that there will be at least 64K deaths in the US due to antibiotic-resistant infections in 2035, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
