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I would think it is important to know the magnitude of the problem. Has the number of death from bacterial infections increased from 1 per million people per y
by flubert 11y ago
I would think it is important to know the magnitude of the problem. Has the number of death from bacterial infections increased from 1 per million people per year in 1990 to 100 per million people per year today? Has it stayed the same? Has it actually decreased over time, and were just trying to be proactive? I'd don't think it is too odd to want to know.
- lovemenot 11y agoHow about a measure of depth of the defence pipeline: total number of efficacious treatments available per million infections, plotted over time? The million infections might need to be weighted by severity of clinical outcome.
- flubert 11y agoGreat, let's get that data too as long as we are at it. Anyone know how to get it?
- danieltillett 11y agoThe problem with this is it is often not known how many other antibiotics might have worked. It might be better to measure drugs known not to work as a percentage of the drugs that work for that class of organism. Getting this data is likely to be really hard to get and be very labor intensive.
- flubert 11y agoThe problem seems to be that an assertion was originally made that we are supposed to accept as true, without any way of quantifying whether it is accurate.