- COVID-19 has rightfully dominated infectious disease news since 2020.
- There is currently only one recommended treatment for gonorrhea in the U.S. – an antibiotic called ceftriaxone – because the bacteria have become resistant to other antibiotics that were formerly effective against it.
- Scientists can create new antibiotics that are effective against resistant strains; however, decreased investment in this research and development over the past 30 years has slowed the introduction of new antibiotics to a trickle.
Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID-19
