I’ve never really understood how these places, which naturally bring in the sick and unwell by the thousands every single day, eliminate all or any airborne pathogens, viruses that spread via contact with surfaces, or by a patient coughing or sneezing. It’s not like they lock down the whole facility and sanitize it top to bottom every time a new patient comes in, so how come these places don’t become massive hubs for the spread of disease? How are waiting rooms not considered one of the most dangerous places for transmission in the world? What steps are these doctors and professionals in the field taking to ensure that these people who are coming in sick, aren’t making everyone else in the building sick as well?
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They’re a little robots that come in and flashlights in the rooms to sanitize them. As well as house cleaners. It’s constantly being cleaned. There is negative pressure air flow rooms for those with chibi risk or to have tb. There is infection control doctors that set up plans to mitigate risk as well as treat patients with infections. There’s PPE, there’s hand washing, masks, gowns, foot covering, scrubbing in…
And that being said hospitals are still some of the dirtiest places you could work in. You never want to stay there longer than you have to. But they work their ass off to make sure a plague doesn’t happen, because that’s not good for business. But there is a hell of a lot of nosocomial infections like MRSA, VRE and other super bugs that we don’t consider plagues, but are known to be located in and spread from hospitals to patients, especially those going to or from SNF/LTC/jail.
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