I have not read through all of it yet, but even the abstract seems to suggest that someone agrees with you, thinks it contributed to that outbreak, and has at least started looking into it.
I’m not sure how extensive the suggested edits were, but I do have to comment that in all likelihood, sporadic crisis-based funding is not conductive to altering the ventilation architecture of a large fraction of hospitals.
(It has been my weak impression that pandemic-related funding has historically relied heavily on a tiny handful of interested politicians and on taking full advantage of policy-windows whenever there’s an outbreak or a scare.)
If there is a good argument that a ventilation redesign would help prevent pneumonia or other common hospital-acquired-infections, I suspect that would be a good thing to look into and add to the proposal. If true, it would make the argument a lot stronger, and also likelier to get implemented and upkept.
I have not read through all of it yet, but even the abstract seems to suggest that someone agrees with you, thinks it contributed to that outbreak, and has at least started looking into it.
I’m not sure how extensive the suggested edits were, but I do have to comment that in all likelihood, sporadic crisis-based funding is not conductive to altering the ventilation architecture of a large fraction of hospitals.
(It has been my weak impression that pandemic-related funding has historically relied heavily on a tiny handful of interested politicians and on taking full advantage of policy-windows whenever there’s an outbreak or a scare.)
If there is a good argument that a ventilation redesign would help prevent pneumonia or other common hospital-acquired-infections, I suspect that would be a good thing to look into and add to the proposal. If true, it would make the argument a lot stronger, and also likelier to get implemented and upkept.