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https://www.cdc.gov/washington/~cdcatWork/pdf/infections.pdf
Approximately 1.7 million HAIs occur in U.S. hospitals each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths and an estimated $20 billion in healthcare costs.
If you want to be concerned about preventable deaths, at least give equal time to some of the top killers like ~40,000/year in car accidents, most preventable...or Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infection deaths at ~90,000 last year...mostly because doctors & nurses don't wash their hands between patients or don't sufficiently maintain cleanliness around an i.v. When's the last time gun rights protesters were up in arms about 90,000 people needlessly dying because someone didn't feel like washing their hands? Or about people texting while driving...or applying makeup while on the road.... Didn't think so.