The war against superbugs caught in congressional quagmire

Lawmakers are on the brink of missing a critical window to fix America’s broken antibiotic market — and to prepare for the growing crisis of superbugs that federal officials say is a national security threatNearly 50,000 people die each year in the U.S. from drug-resistant and antibiotic-associated infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We’re playing with fire if we don’t pass this fairly soon,” said Sen. Todd Young , one of the bill’s lead sponsors. “Every day that passes, we see more deaths on account of antimicrobial resistance, and this situation grows more challenging and more costly.” “We’re at this tipping point right now where we get this passed this year in this Congress or not,” said Aleks Engel, director of the REPAIR Impact Fund

Experts on superbugs say the cost-benefit analysis should be obvious to lawmakers. Antimicrobial resistance is already a leading global cause of death, killing some 1.7 million people in 2019. They succeeded, and the FDA approved Achaogen’s groundbreaking drug in 2018. But within a year, the company went bankrupt, and it was eventually sold off for a fraction of the government’s investment to an Indian pharmaceutical company.

Groups like AMR Action Fund, the REPAIR Impact Fund and CARB-X have cropped up to put some money into the companies working on new drugs, but their leaders don’t see nonprofit investment as a long-term fix. Lawmakers went further in 2016, creating another tool dubbed LPAD — the Limited Population Pathway for Antibacterial and Antifungal Drugs — focused on promoting development of medicines for small numbers of patients with life-threatening infections.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Yet the lefties hammer the pharma people for high prices. Guess all these miracle drugs and vax just fall onto the lab bench.

Politico is German owned. Certainly not a reliable source for news.

Oh, great.

Actual National Security threat...

trying to avoid ? you mean you helped along . and if proper medication, would not have been withheld during the virus , many lives would have been saved . I hope they Cut your funding .

Saying Republicans won’t make it a priority next year while the bill has languished in Democrat controlled Congress for 2 years? 🤔

Trump did away with FDA inspectors and allowed sped up processing lines ENJOY

Had to throw all those buzzwords in for them clicks huh?

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