General public learning some things about illness and hospitalization lately.
Hospitals are dangerous places.
–Pneumonia: when older or weakened people go in the hospital for something and there is always a chance of coming down with pneumonia.
–Sepsis. The article about the 17 year old in CA. Says he had Septic Shock. Yes. It is called Sepsis. It is another infection anyone can get in the hospital.
These pneumonias and sepsis acquired while in a hospital may not even be related to whatever reason you wound up in the hospital. These are dangers you face when you agree to be hospitalized.
Please correct me when I am wrong. If you go to the hospital for the flu, and then die of pneumonia, your death is attributed to the flu (or covid19 etc)