COVID-19: A preview of worse diseases to come Amid coronavirus concerns, a healthcare worker takes the temperature of a visitor to Essentia Health who was crossing over a skywalk bridge from the adjoining parking deck, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Duluth, Minn. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP) COVID-19 has shown how vulnerable we are to a virus; in the future, will we be prepared to handle a pandemic caused by bacteria, which adapt faster than we can? There may be a worse bug coming, but while our current medicines don’t stand a chance, researchers are preparing one that might. In this episode, we talk to Kim Lewis (University Distinguished Professor of biology and director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center). https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/921894/9218948c-1398-43f5-bfed-526e09093753/b3e0dea9-c699-4831-b74a-d8e61035c0fe/covid-19-a-preview-of-worse-diseases-to-come-litmus-final_tc.mp3