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A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts, who warn that a protracted scarcity of the drug could worsen the U.S. epidemic of the sexually transmitted infection. The shortage, announced by the drugmaker Pfizer in a letter last month, involves Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injectable antibiotic also known as penicillin G benzathine. The company cited significant increases in demand because of the rising rate of syphilis infect

The current reimbursement system in the United States discourages some forms of innovations in health care. The development of new antibiotics that aren’t needed now but could be down the road are a case in point. A subscription-based pricing model could address this problem.

Without immediate action, humanity could be headed back to the pre-antibiotic era, experts with the World Health Organization say.

And Trump's NFTs sell out quickly.

Abortion access? Mental health coverage? Additional pricing regulations? Any number of legislative priorities are set to fill the COVID-19 void.