My family went on a Disney cruise in May and the first thing that struck us was how persistent they were in having the passengers sanitize their hands at every opportunity possible. Before we could actually board we were stopped, handed a sanitizing sheet and asked to wipe our hands thoroughly before discarding the used wipe. There was also a foam hand sanitizing station available. Every time we went to eat - first wipe. You left the eating area - wipe. You went off the ship - wipe. You re boarded - wipe. It was comical at first but became second nature. Their purpose was to avoid cross contamination between passengers and avoid illness if at all possible. It worked.

“At a veterans’ hospital here, nurses swab the nasal passages of every arriving patient to test them for drug-resistant bacteria. Those found positive are housed in isolation rooms behind red painted lines that warn workers not to approach without wearing gowns and gloves.”

“Every room and corridor is equipped with dispensers of foamy hand sanitizer. Blood pressure cuffs are discarded after use, and each room is assigned its own stethoscope to prevent the transfer of microorganisms. Using these and other relatively inexpensive measures, the hospital has significantly reduced the number of patients who develop deadly drug-resistant infections, long an unaddressed problem in American hospitals.”
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