“Looming global health crisis”: urgent action needed to stop spread of superbugs

Sense of urgency is quite missing - this isn't "looming", it's been happening since the 80s and 90s (since we picked all the low hanging fruit for new antibiotics). We really needed to get on top of this 40 years ago, there already exist many pathogens resistant to basically every antibiotic we have.

Article also neglects to mention that cost of drug development is always expensive, it's just that antibiotics aren't profitable - they're used for short periods of time, usually as late as possible (after patents expire), and can't be made more expensive without restricting use even more than it already is.

> and livestock production, with “meat being rare and risky to eat”.

Ironic since keeping factory farming livestock alive and "healthy" is via an excessive use of antibiotics. As far as I know, more ABX are used for livestock than for humans.

But we collectively don't want to pay more for animal protein, nor do we want eat less of it. This will be yet another healthcare crisis that could have been prevented or at least mitigated but we refuse to do so.