How Towns and Habits Would Change Without Penicillin (Episode 6 Short)

This one is our own imagining, and the Short says so out loud before it starts. Schools are built with windows that open wide, handshakes turn into nods, and clinics post the local infection count the way we post pollen. Then it returns to the real world, where drug resistant infections caused about 1.27 million deaths in 2019. Photographs of today's labs and medical campuses are by Carol M. Highsmith at the Library of Congress. The full story is in Episode 6 of What Comes Next, What If Penicillin Was Never Discovered?