MACARIO: How COVID-19 has added to the problem of drug-resistant antibiotics
By Everly Macario, Chicago Tribune (TNS) As the world grapples with COVID-19, another pandemic has gone mostly unnoticed. Each year, 700,000 people — including as many as 160,000 Americans — lose their lives to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. My 18-month-old son Simon was one of them. He woke up one morning screaming in agony. Within 24 hours, he died from a drug-resistant infection that doctors were