Commentary
If you have to go to the hospital, you don’t want to end up in a dangerous one.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) knows which hospitals are riskiest, but it’s hiding that information from you—your safety be damned. The feds seem to think they work for the hospital industry, not for you.
Whenever a hospital has a superbug outbreak, the CDC conceals the hospital’s identity, referring only to “Hospital A.” A lot of good that does patients looking for safe care, especially patients with compromised immune systems, cancer, or HIV.
It’s no joke to find out, after you’re already in the hospital, that a superbug is raging room to room or has invaded the nursery where your newborn will be placed. That’s what happens when the CDC hides outbreaks….