There is a deadly epidemic in America killing tens of thousands that is worsening but not being accurately reported or responded to.
It’s a scourge of super-bugs, bacteria that became resistant to antibiotic drugs, that are spreading as the U.S. Healthcare system fails to track and respond to the rising human toll from this epidemic.
A Reuters investigation finds that fifteen years after the U.S. government declared antibiotic-resistant infections to be a grave threat to public health, infection-related deaths are going uncounted, hindering the nation’s ability to fight a scourge that exacts a significant human toll.
They report that tens of thousands of deaths from drug-resistant infections – as well as many more infections that sicken but don’t kill people – go uncounted because federal and state agencies are doing a poor job of tracking them.
They also say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the go-to national public health monitor, and state health departments lack the political, legal and financial wherewithal to impose rigorous surveillance.
And drug-resistant infections are left off death certificates for several reasons. Doctors and other clinicians get little training in how to fill out the forms. Some don’t want to wait the several days it can take for laboratory confirmation of an infection.
Also, there has not been a single new class of antibiotics that has been approved for medical use since 1987. And despite years of efforts to educate healthcare workers about infection control, multiple studies show that many still routinely flout even basic preventive measures, like hand-washing.
There’s also a powerful incentive not to mention a hospital-acquired infection: Counting deaths is tantamount to documenting your own failures. By acknowledging such infections, hospitals and medical professionals risk potentially costly legal liability, loss of insurance reimbursements and public-relations damage.
But the CDC knows it is a serious problem and the agency estimates that about 23,000 people die each year from antibiotic-resistant infections and that an additional 15,000 die from a pathogen linked to long-term antibiotic use; but these numbers are mostly educated guesswork.
In the absence of a unified national surveillance system, the onus of monitoring drug-resistant infections and related deaths falls on the states. And most states don’t require doctors to specify whether a drug-resistant infection was a factor in a death.
A Reuters analysis of death certificates, where they worked with the CDC to search text descriptions on death certificates to identify relevant deaths, found that nationwide, drug-resistant infections were mentioned as contributing to or causing the deaths of more than 180,000 people during a ten year period.
Officials say the numbers of uncounted deaths from drug-resistant infections speaks to what can happen when we don’t allocate and focus the necessary resources for a crisis.
America has a crisis, of an epidemic that’s growing and becoming more dangerous. It could be the start of a lethal super-bug era where pestilence grows non-treatable.
These are Signs of the Last Days prophecies of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24 where He foretold that outbreaks of pestilence would be an indicator of the end of the age and fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy.
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