No actually.

It's because the infection was probably airborne and they were wiping surfaces.
He's not talking about COVID-19.

Neither am I.

Lots of other things in hospital air. They make you sick when you go in to get better.

Left side of each picture: air filter off.
Right side: air filter on.
1. When I visit the hospital I am glad they do not serve me well water from the well out back.

I might catch cholera.

2. When I visit the hospital I am sad they make me breathe the unfiltered air of my sick neighbours.

I catch RSV/flu/name your bug.
Pictures earlier from

Morris et al. ‘The Removal of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 and Other Microbial Bioaerosols by Air Filtration on COVID-19 Surge Units’, 22 September 2021.

doi.org/10.1101/2021.0….

Please note, "other microbial bioaerosols" in the title.
It is likely in an environment like a hospital not ALL spread is airborne, nor is all of it respiratory pathogens, of course. But I rather suspect a lot more things we typically have thought of as "contact" are in fact airborne, whether thrown up or actually respired.
This is from an online textbook, under heading "nosocomial infections", and you can see they relegate multi-drug resistant bacteria, including MRSA, to contact only.

Elsewhere I have posted about MRSA in the air.
Feel free to conduct research.

This is likely a good one to read, but I do not have time to.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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COVID-19 took measles out back and absolutely SHOT IT DEAD.

1 sick player infected 100% OF BOTH HOCKEY TEAMS - 42 people - then another 102 spectators.

172 people in total.

You can watch it sweep the first team then the second team then the stands in the epi curves.

Wow.
A few sick kids at a doctor's office?

Pfft, measles, get out of here you weakly-transmitting pathetic cold of a virus. Even pre-vax you weren't doing this.

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Imma help you with this "science speak"
Just remember the ladder of denial and elite panic myth means if you are hearing a 2 it's a 4. If a 4 it's a 6. If a 6 pack your bags. You'll never hear 8 and up the TV will just play static

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Has anyone worked up the ladder of denial for bird flu?

- We have not found bird flu.

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This is from 2014. Image
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They already said "airborne" although they had said long-range (throw back to 1910, by the way)

But wait for it Image
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Wow they buried the lead.

COVID might be up to an R0 of 24, eating measles for breakfast. Image
Very comparable at median of 11 to measles, which is probably 9 to 12.

Anyway from p. 19 iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…
And measles from much much older reports...

Somewhere I posted an article that looked at how they arrived at 12 to 18 and concluded it was more like 9 to 12. Probably on the low end too.
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For anyone reading this, he means "Airborne" as in the three viruses that require Airborne precautions.

Those are _defined_ as TB, measles and chickenpox.

They are "airborne" because they are "Airborne."

It is totally ludicrous, yes.
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