This is one of those things that wasn't obvious in 2020 and had to be learned -- when we see the 1-in-x numbers from canada covid hazard index they systematically overstate the risk *IF YOU ARE NOT NE...
incidentally there are ways to control this risk
1) better air filtration in hospitals
2) masking in hospitals
3) testing in hospitals
4) contact tracing and actually treating sars2 as the identifiable disease it should be treated as
5) (longer term) building smaller hospitals
the larger the hospital the more likely nosocomial infections will be spread in it. building super large hospitals might be good for a bunch of other efficiency reasons but it is terrible for covid
1) better air filtration in hospitals
2) masking in hospitals
3) testing in hospitals
4) contact tracing and actually treating sars2 as the identifiable disease it should be treated as
5) (longer term) building smaller hospitals
the larger the hospital the more likely nosocomial infections will be spread in it. building super large hospitals might be good for a bunch of other efficiency reasons but it is terrible for covid
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