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Listen, hospitals and medical centers are dirty places. I hope that makes sense to most people. You have a concencentrated amount of sick people in a small place. A lot of workers are negligent about staying clean while they preach handwashing. A lot of people end up getting sicker in hospitals because they acquire another infection. It's a dirty secret called nosocomial infections. A likely issue is getting a urinary tract infection after going in.
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The link above is discussing nosocomial infections that created Atypical Pneumonia acquired inside a hospital.

While everyone likes to have company when in the medical center, think twice and send a note or better yet when they come home, offer to do housework, chores, and bring over a meal. Sick people need sleep, and the health care workers and support staff might enter a room up to 20 times a day to take vitals, bring in meals, clean, draw blood, dispense pills, etc.

There are few isolation wards in medical centers. They are very expensive to maintain and operate. This means when you're in a medical wing, often MED/SURG then you're breathing everyone's germs including visitors. The air handling units try to filter out germs with special filtration (HEPA and silver ionization) but it's imperfect and can't isolate well, not without special sanitary barriers and piped in oxygen.

Take it seriously. Buy some supplies before you get sick. Don't waste money, be prudent and buy things you would actually use. There's lots of good tips on GLP on how to self-treat.

If you learn more about the illnesses that are going around, then you know better how to treat yourself the 99% of the time that care is going on. You see a doc for minutes. You care for yourself the rest of the time. There are four things going around not one. This has confused a lot of people. Get educated about your symptoms so you can best communicate them and therefore help the doc discover what is your illness, not what everyone else has. They could easily prescribe the wrong meds because they mix up respiratory Influenza with a bacterial case of Staph aureus that's affecting your respiratory tract as well as causing mild stomach flu.

Think I'm wrong? Most people, even the journalist reporting in the link above didn't seperate out Norovirus, Influenza A, Staph aureus, Atypical Pneumonia, Whooping Cough. All of that is going around.