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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
My former brother-in-law has just died in hospital from CV -contracted there. He was taken in for a gall bladder operation and duly contracted CV.
That's terrible. In my day (when Emergency Ward 10 was on TV), every hospital had a ruthless matron. My current mother-in-law (dcd,) has confirmed that the reason that typhus etc didn't run rife in hospitals back then was a rigorous cleaning regime including the use of carbolic to clean bedframes and so on. Clearly CV is rife on hospital services and the pontifications of the NHS Chief Executive are worthless unless he gets the hospital sanitation regime under control.
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Sorry to hear about your former brother in law Seph.
Unfortunately, while cleaning is important, you can clean everything as much as you like but while there's an airborne virus in a closed environment you can't reduce the risk to zero. Well, you can, but it'd involve everyone running around like the guys in the Intel ads circa 2000.