Antibiotic-resistant infections killed more than 1.2 million people in 2019

Healio News — January 26, 2022. “From being an unrecognized and hidden problem, a clearer picture of the burden of AMR is finally emerging. Even the lower end of 911,000 deaths estimated by [the researchers] is higher than the number of deaths from HIV, which attracts close to $50 billion each year.” Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, director and senior fellow at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy.