The next pandemic is already here. Covid can teach us how to fight it.

We’ve known the dangers of antimicrobial resistance for years. What if we used what we learned from covid to tackle it?

It was August 2017, and pleasant and breezy in the central mountains of Madagascar. The passengers loading their bags into the minibus leaving Ankazobe, a small town in the highlands, were grateful for the morning coolness. It would be warm and sticky on the trip they were taking to Antananarivo, the island’s million-person capital 100 kilometers to the south, and then to Toamasina on the coast, another 350 kilometers away. One of the passengers, a 31-year-old man, looked uncomfortable already. Four days before, he had arrived on a visit. Now he was headed...