However, in USA, all new hospitals, and many older ones are converted to single patient wards.
This reduces cross infection tremendously.
Also strict hand washing and disinfection.
There is also a solid state anti-bacterial coating that can be applied to glass, (invented in Japan) and now widely used in US hospitals.
I heard on a talk show recently that the UK hospitals TURN OVER THE SHEETS, in other words — use the same bedsheets TWICE, when one patient leaves & another enters to use that hospital bed, in order to save public funds on laundry costs.
I wish I could find a news report documenting this, it certainly would explain the superbug outbreak, Yuck.
“Thanks, govt/socialism”