system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If two people with the same contagious illness are confined together, is it likely that it’ll take longer for them to get better than if they were separated?
gpt
Not necessarily. In fact, this is called cohorting and is sometimes practiced as a way to prevent the spread of disease. For example, if you have two patients with the same antibiotic-resistant organism, sometimes they will be put in isolation in the same room. They both have the same thing, so they can't really infect each other, and this means that we won't need to put someone not infected in the room with one infected person and put them at risk.