If you believe that “you can’t improve what you can’t measure”*, the most disheartening sentence in this editorial about the WHO report is “…few countries track and monitor antibiotic resistance comprehensively, and there is no standard methodology for doing so."
*This saying is a paraphrase of Lord Kelvin, who also said:
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.”
“Meager and unsatisfactory” is a great description of the status of our current response to the antimicrobial resistance threat.
