“…In hospitals, good infection control practices and enhanced cleaning can dramatically reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. 19,20 Reducing the use of unnecessary broad-spectrum antibiotics does result in fewer resistant pathogens, [21][22][23] showing that bacteria are not innately driven to become more and more resistant but are simply responding to environmental pressures. COVID-19 has led to a massive uplift in rapid diagnostic capacity in western countries, at least for respiratory infections.…”