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Week 12 of 17
Infection
Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
Should hospitals have to publish their infection rates? Best point made in the room all semester came from someone else.
CLASSMATE
If reporting is punished, hospitals test less. Better numbers, worse care.
Six links in the chain of infection. You do not have to break all six. Break any one and transmission stops.
The weakest link in my scenario was not the dramatic one. It was hand hygiene between two routine tasks.
Wash your hands more is not an argument. Name the mechanism, predict the outcome, admit what you cannot rule out.