Drug-resistant infections on the rise - a crisis?

[myata]

According to the report released by the Council of Canadian Academies "When Antibiotics Fail" drug resistant infections are on the rise and constitute a significant risk for public health and economy.

"The report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), titled "When Antibiotics Fail," found that an average of 26% of bacterial infections reported in Canada in 2018 were resistant to first-line treatment, with 14,000 deaths linked to those infections and 5,400 deaths directly attributable to antibiotic resistance."

14,000, in a year. Can someone multiply it by two?

Worldwide, drug-resistant infections accounted for over 1.2 million deaths.

If Covid scared you enough, what about an infection for which there's no effective treatment? Exsperts, hello! Why is this not an existential crisis, jumping and crying, with "rapid response" $$$ Billion funds? Why is this shrugged off; unnoticed and forgotten; with other crises like overdose edging on 2,000 in just one province in one year (BC, 2019)?

"During 2019, the suicide rate in Canada for those between 20 and 24 years of age reached 12.4 per 100000 population." At the same, the total Covid toll, in the entire age group 0 - 30 was just over 100.

Who is judging and deciding on the priorities here? How are these decisions made? Who created this crisis?

[Aristides]

This has been recognized as emerging problem for years. Your article is three years old. Your suicide stat is also pre Covid. You also seem to assume that the Covid numbers would be no different if we had done nothing.

[myata]

Do you have any information that would suggest that there was an improvement in any of these areas? As far as I know, overdose and suicide numbers are near all-time highs. Why we see no crying exsperts on the media waves, and no billion investments either? Who decided that, and how?

Edited January 20, 2022 by myata

[H B Lowrey]

9 hours ago, myata said:

Do you have any information that would suggest that there was an improvement in any of these areas? As far as I know, overdose and suicide numbers are near all-time highs. Why we see no crying exsperts on the media waves, and no billion investments either? Who decided that, and how?

For the same reason COVID is being allowed to roll over the population.