This is one of the reasons that the things I work on most of the time (healthcare-associated infections) are so insidious. At any given institution rates are u

This is one of the reasons that the things I work on most of the time (healthcare-associated infections) are so insidious. At any given institution rates are usually quite low, and infections a rarity. But when you project that up to every ICU or hospital in the country, you suddenly get something that causes more deaths than drunk driving.