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I worked at a hospital years ago and during the orientation session we had a speaker tell the audience that 1/8 pepe who go into the hospital will acquire an in

by Teever 3y ago

I worked at a hospital years ago and during the orientation session we had a speaker tell the audience that 1/8 pepe who go into the hospital will acquire an infection from the hospital.

londons_explore 3y ago
My n=1 experience is that every time I walk into a hospital (even just to visit nana for an hour), a few days later I find myself sick... I suspect that the true figure for hospital acquired infections is far higher than 1 in 8, but that they are only recorded if the infection is serious enough to cause immediate medical treatment to be necessary.
- tobiasSoftware 3y ago
  Perhaps you should consider wearing an N95 while visiting the hospital. You can a pack on Amazon for $15 (even in stylish black), and they really aren't that bad wearing. In my opinion, the practice of wearing N95s in medical settings is the one response to Covid that should be permanent. Unfortunately even in peak Covid medical advisors were too scared to advise proper masking and settled for cloth and surgical masks, while KN95/N95 offers far more protection for yourself. Looking back, we could have done away with social distancing, quarantining, shutdowns, and all the other extreme procedures if we had just ramped up N95 production and told everyone to wear them in public while we were waiting on the vaccines.
cjrp 3y ago
MRSA was a big worry in UK hospitals for a while. Maybe still is, but just doesn't get the press coverage.
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago
  From the official stats, it's about 0-5 cases of MRSA bacteraemia per NHS trust per month. When I was in hospital a few years ago, they swabbed on every admission to test for it so it's definitely a concern. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-monthly-data-by-location-of-onset https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-mo...

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I worked at a hospital years ago and during the orientation session we had a speaker tell the audience that 1/8 pepe who go into the hospital will acquire an in

by Teever 3y ago

I worked at a hospital years ago and during the orientation session we had a speaker tell the audience that 1/8 pepe who go into the hospital will acquire an infection from the hospital.

londons_explore 3y ago
My n=1 experience is that every time I walk into a hospital (even just to visit nana for an hour), a few days later I find myself sick... I suspect that the true figure for hospital acquired infections is far higher than 1 in 8, but that they are only recorded if the infection is serious enough to cause immediate medical treatment to be necessary.
- tobiasSoftware 3y ago
  Perhaps you should consider wearing an N95 while visiting the hospital. You can a pack on Amazon for $15 (even in stylish black), and they really aren't that bad wearing. In my opinion, the practice of wearing N95s in medical settings is the one response to Covid that should be permanent. Unfortunately even in peak Covid medical advisors were too scared to advise proper masking and settled for cloth and surgical masks, while KN95/N95 offers far more protection for yourself. Looking back, we could have done away with social distancing, quarantining, shutdowns, and all the other extreme procedures if we had just ramped up N95 production and told everyone to wear them in public while we were waiting on the vaccines.
cjrp 3y ago
MRSA was a big worry in UK hospitals for a while. Maybe still is, but just doesn't get the press coverage.
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago
  From the official stats, it's about 0-5 cases of MRSA bacteraemia per NHS trust per month. When I was in hospital a few years ago, they swabbed on every admission to test for it so it's definitely a concern. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-monthly-data-by-location-of-onset https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-mo...