The Covid-19 pandemic will look minor compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs. ... Drug-resistant infections already kill at least 1.2 million people a year.
Widespread resistance would make much of modern medicine too risky, affecting treatments including caesarean sections, cancer interventions, and organ transplantation. ... If we haven't made good strides in the next 10 years, then I'm really scared, Davies said.
Without the development of new treatments it'll grind on for decades and it won't burn out. ... We know that with viruses, they burn out, you generally develop herd immunity, but this isn't like that.
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