Antibiotic Resistance Will Overtake Cancer. We Are Not Behaving Like It Will
Antibiotic-resistant infections killed 1.27 million people in 2019. Cancer killed roughly 10 million. The gap is real, and anyone collapsing it is misreading the data. But resistance rose in over 40% of monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations between 2018 and 2023, and the broken economics of antibiotic development mean we are watching a slow catastrophe with the wrong urgency.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read