Disinfecting to decrease communicable disease

[Amish Country]

I ran into a staff member of The Acadia Neuro Rehab in Lancaster Pa. She told me that this flu season a new procedure was implemented at their facility. Three times each work day commonly touched sites such as door knobs, door jams and light switches were wiped down with disinfectant. While she had no exact numbers she stated the decrease in the number of cases of communicable sickness within the staff and clients at her facility was "significant".

I can see where this would have added benefits of less stress on staff because of not having to cover for absent workers and better care for clients.

[gsgs]

Re: Disinfecting to decrease communicable disease

alas, it has not been demonstrated in a study, afaik
statistically relevant

it is even unclear whether fomite-transmission contributes
more than -say- 1% to influenza transmission.

Hopefully they can resolve this in the coming experiments
on human volunteers in England

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but this is flu only, disinfecting should help better for cold viruses
or norovirus or ...bacteria