[Moonman62]

A hospital is probably the worst place to go if you are suffering from a respiratory illness. All the antibiotic resistant bacteria and pneumonia strains just lurking about looking for old patients to kill.

That may be still be true in Zimbabwe or Cuba, but modern hospitals practice infection control. If you're Burt's age and have a serious respiratory illness I'd say you'd have a much better chance going to the hospital.

[Mears]

“That may be still be true in Zimbabwe or Cuba, but modern hospitals practice infection control.”

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I don’t know about that. I personally know two people who developed infections at teaching hospitals in the Boston area.

This was in the last 2 years.

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