No hospital is going to refit their hospital in copper hardware. No hospital ops manager is going to add vinegar and water to their maintenance protocols. Please, just stop.
They want to clean it, kill it, and move on. You have no idea of the time constraints these folks are under. They are not polishing anything except the floor. They are timed to the minute. Spending an extra ten seconds on thousands of doors in a hospital every day is a none starter.
Please, someone that works in hospital operations help me out with this.
not to mention. the expense of the copper. No this is not feasible for hospitals we have disinfectants to use on hard surfaces
we’re just having a little random chain of thought fun, VL. I think it started off with ‘copper’s antimicrobial’ ‘cool’ ‘what about copper socks for the docs’ and ‘Lysol w/copper’ and now we’re back to cleaning copper pots and kitchen sinks with ketchup. Or maybe the ketchup is just for pots.
Maybe some of us may live long enough to see nanoparticle sprays or thin films of various antimicrobals applied to surfaces as part of infection control instead of leftover stainless from ww2. You don’t see SS in many private doctors’ offices any more. But I don’t think any FReeper believes hospitals of today are just going to run right out and retrofit entire wards. It’s just chatter :)
Hospitals in the US are not going to be able to handle large numbers of cases using their current business model.
Their margins are so thin, and their reliance on fast turnover is so great, that IF there are large numbers, they will be turned into public utilities in a heartbeat.