@broadwaybabyto In addition, hospitalization is widely been shown to be an environment where people pick up infections and those hospital acquired infections are shown to substantially increase their risk of morbidity and mortality compared to people who do not get infected while hospitalized. This is well established in medical literature at this point. Your ER doctor there is frankly full of shit and practicing an extremely poor and unethical standard of care. Aerosol hygiene is v. important.