How does it make any sense to pool sick people together in one place?

Haven't been there in quite a long time, but the Johns Hopkins emergency room was built against all logic and reason. I've never seen tinier chairs...with shared armrests too. From the purveyor of all that is COVID, you would think that social distancing would have been a thing in designing it (ya know, because people at ERs do have things worse than COVID).

First president at JHU was Daniel Coit Gilman, yuge Skull and Bones guy.