The US congress is considering enacting a market incentive to incentivize the research and development of new and needed antibiotics. They are balking at spending a few billion dollars over several years in spite of rising antibiotic resistance and a paltry pipeline of new antibiotics. Without this money, we will watch any hope of fighting the onslaught of resistance whither and die. But our senators and congresspersons are getting cold feet. You have got to be kidding!
