How do Hospitals, Doctor’s offices, and Medical Centers not become massive centers for plague and disease?

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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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Everything that everyone else said plus the extreme focus on hand hygiene. Before entering and leaving all patient rooms in hospitals, caregivers wash or sanitize their hands. I work in supply chain, and we were always working with nursing to find soaps and occasionally lotions to protect their dried out hands.

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