Responding to the Superbug Crisis
Commentary Hospital rooms, operating rooms, and medical equipment are so inadequately cleaned that any patient going into a ...
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Commentary Hospital rooms, operating rooms, and medical equipment are so inadequately cleaned that any patient going into a ...
Beating back the superbugs starts with hospitals cleaning up.
A hospital patient who contracts a superbug faces a far higher risk of death than another patient with the same medical
Arizona Republic Her first symptoms — a scratchy throat and cough — were so mild that Jannie Cox "totally blew them off" on Dec. 27, when they first emerged. Three days later, the 74-year-old Tucson resident could no longer deny it: She was sick. Her throat had become fiercely sore, she had flu-like body aches, and it was clear she was either catching a cold, or worse. That same day, she tested positive for COVID-19 infection and her husband, 75-year-old David Syverson, was developing symptoms, too. Cox, a retired health care foundation executive, knew what she wanted for herself and he...