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The pandemic fueled a superbug surge. Can medicine recover?

11 mins | Jul 30, 2022
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Hospitals are fighting back. A July 2022 report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that deaths from some of the hardest-to-treat superbugs increased to 78% during 2020 due to developing antibiotic resistance. Maryn McKenna examines the effects of this devastating pandemic aftershock.

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