diff --git a/packages/npm-mongo/package.js b/packages/npm-mongo/package.js
index 90ae96463d..e7be287866 100644
--- a/packages/npm-mongo/package.js
+++ b/packages/npm-mongo/package.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Package.describe({
 
 Npm.depends({
   mongodb: "5.0.0",
+  "mongodb-legacy": "5.0.0"
 });
 
 Package.onUse(function (api) {
diff --git a/packages/npm-mongo/wrapper.js b/packages/npm-mongo/wrapper.js
index e341493895..f7e7c23b08 100644
--- a/packages/npm-mongo/wrapper.js
+++ b/packages/npm-mongo/wrapper.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ try {
   // Silence deprecation warnings introduced in a patch update to mongodb:
   // https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/9942#discussion_r218564879
   process.noDeprecation = true;
-  NpmModuleMongodb = Npm.require('mongodb');
+  NpmModuleMongodb = Npm.require('mongodb-legacy');
 } finally {
   process.noDeprecation = oldNoDeprecationValue;
 }