What if Mass-produced antibiotics had gone differently?

Penicillin goes from lab curiosity to industrial output in time to change what an infection means.

If it had gone differently: Antibiotics stay rare and experimental for another two decades; infection keeps its old grip on surgery and childbirth.

1. 1950The Green Revolution, Famine stays a normal feature of the late 20th century; populations in Asia and Latin America stall.