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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Airborne diseases aren’t as common as you’d think, as well as the majority of the ones that ARE airborne are mostly contagious though large droplets only. So it isn’t like people breathing is just flooding a room/floor.
So lots of hand cleaning, proper ventilation, and surface decontamination stops most of it. A doctor going into a room and gets sneezed/coughed on isn’t just going to shrug it off and go to the next patient, they’ll clean up and change clothes at the minimum.
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