AMR Action Fund CEO Henry Skinner, PhD, is quoted in a widely syndicated story about a new report which finds that unless officials take action to develop new medications, "superbug" infections could directly kill nearly 2 million people a year in 2050—a 67.5% increase from the 1.14 million lives lost this way in 2021.
“The numbers in the Lancet paper represent a staggering and unacceptable level of human suffering,” he said. “A continued failure of governments to meet their moral obligations to protect and care for their people, as this paper shows, will doom millions of people to needless deaths.”