Fungus resistant to antibiotics is killing people around the world. Ironically, the outbreaks are killing people in many hospitals. Including perhaps the hospital that for whatever reason you might go to in the United States. Although you may not know it before you go.
Doctors, hospitals, the Federal Center for Disease Control (C.D.C.), and state governments won't tell people where, although they know. That is because the hospitals and doctors have the benefit of secrecy agreements to keep the information from you. They think that people dying from out-of-control fungi is bad for their reputations:
Even the C.D.C., under its agreement with states, is not allowed to make public the location or name of hospitals involved in outbreaks. State governments have in many cases declined to publicly share information beyond acknowledging that they have had cases.
Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Deadly Germs, Lost Cures / A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy, New York Times online Saturday, April 6, 2019 (the New York Times may charge for online access; if you find that "you have one free article remaining," this is the one to use it on).
Secrecy agreements. Good for their reputations, but they can stand any amount of our pain. Definitely bad for our health if we go there without knowing any better while they are protecting their reputations -- maybe at the cost of our lives.
The author is at work on a book about "'Quiet in the Courts!' How Concealed Evidence and Secret Settlements Change Our Lives and Take Our Money."
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