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Here's a thought: out-sourcing hospital cleaning services to the lowest bidder is a really bad idea. Because the other term for "hospital cleaning services" is
by cstross 14y ago
Here's a thought: out-sourcing hospital cleaning services to the lowest bidder is a really bad idea. Because the other term for "hospital cleaning services" is "infection control".
Similarly, elderly patients frequently end up suffering from malnutrition in hospitals because of poor food and/or not enough staff to feed people with difficulty eating. And malnutrition leads to immunological depression. Again: shaving margins on this stuff costs lives.
New drugs actually come some way down the checklist of things we need to be doing to contain infectious diseases.