Consider this, a
New Jersey Hospital checked it's records and found 34 HCWs to be positive by the TB skin test. They also checked their records and found that they had no active TB in the hospital. So how did the HCWs become infected?
Someone came through our doors and exposed our staff to TB...It could have been anybody.
What this official is asking us to believe is just silly, people just don't become infected that easily. In fact, the
evidence suggests that in a hospital setting brief and/or casual contact is not sufficient to develop infection
TB transmission seems unlikely and contact tracing not generally warranted after cumulative exposure less than 40 hours
Unfortunately this hospital is a victim of it's own poor choice, by electing to use the outdated and imprecise TB skin test they should expect more not less mysterious TB outbreaks.
