And, whose holding them back from making new antibiotics? Big govt and overburdening regulations.
Government regulation is not preventing them from coming out with other new drugs. It seems that half of the commercials on TV are for some new miracle medicine to make either my wiener, my heart, my prostate or my pancreas work right.
The reason they don't spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars researching antibiotics is because there is no money in it. People only use antibiotics for a week or so and then never again. The drug companies prefer to spend R & D money on maintenance drugs which once a person goes on, they seldom come off.