A crisis bigger than Covid: The new war on antibiotic resistance 5 Apr, 2021 09:45 PM 8 minutes to read No new class of antibiotics has been brought to market for decades. Photo / Sharon McCutcheon, Unsplash No new class of antibiotics has been brought to market for decades. Photo / Sharon McCutcheon, Unsplash Daily Telegraph UK By: Harry de Quetteville Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway was only 15 when, in 2017, the cystic fibrosis she had endured all her life forced her to have a double lung transplant. CF patients depend on antibiotics every day to keep at bay infections that scar their lung tissue. After her transplant, with her immune system suppressed to prevent rejection of the new organs, Isabelle was even more reliant on the drugs.