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The reason not to postpone development is because it isn't a particularly quick solution. It would be one thing to develop and test them, and then postpone dep
by everforward 4y ago
The reason not to postpone development is because it isn't a particularly quick solution. It would be one thing to develop and test them, and then postpone deployment of them. It's another thing to not have a backup plan and hope that one of the antibiotic candidates work out, and quickly.
Modern cities are a huge disease vector. That kind of population density lets sickness run rampant. Untreated TB has something like a 25% mortality rate, and we've already seen drug-resistant (DR) and extreme drug-resistant (XDR) strains of TB. An outbreak of TB that we have no antibiotics for would be devastating.