Confronting antimicrobial resistance beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US election

Globally, the USA has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, and still needs to simultaneously respond to another looming potential pandemic. The rise in multidrug-resistant bacterial infections that are undetected, undiagnosed, and increasingly untreatable threatens the health of people in the USA and globally. In 2020 and beyond, we cannot afford to ignore antimicrobial resistance (AMR).