Episode 123: Nowhere Land
Osterholm Update
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What Is Antimicrobial Resistance?
In 1900 in this country, average life expectancy was 48 years. Today, even with COVID, at 76 years, roughly, every three days we've lived, we've gained a day of life expectancy. By 2050 worldwide, over 10 million people would die from an infectious disease that was so resistant to all the treatments we had, that's why they died. We are just giving these microbes every additional ecological advantage to mutate, to evolve, and to become resistant.
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