Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Be Worse Than Covid-19

The author of ‘Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens’ explains an overlooked and incoming crisis

Eric Allen Been
OneZero
Published in
9 min readMay 12, 2020

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A super close up of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria.
Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. Photo: KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images

The doctors were stumped. They were trying to treat a woman in her seventies who had fallen, broken her femur, and contracted a bacterial infection

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Eric Allen Been
OneZero

A writer. Not based in Brooklyn. Recent bylines with Vox, Vanity Fair, Harvard Magazine, MIT’s Undark, VICE and Playboy.