Big Kahuna: How to Avoid or Overcome a Vomit Wave

Harking back to its spiritual predecessor, Theme Hospital, there is a terrible phenomenon in Two Point Hospital we call the Vomit Wave. A Vomit Wave occurs when a large number of Patients become ill and throw up, causing other patients to become nauseous in a retching chain reaction, until your halls are filled with medical waste and broken, sobbing Janitors.

How A Vomit Wave Starts

 * 1) Hospital level and hospital reputation cause an increase in patients coming to your hospital.
 * 2) As more patients arrive at your hospital, they begin to queue up. Most often, they will bottleneck at the GP's Office and Psychiatry.
 * 3) As your patients wait in your hospital, their Health stat begins to drop.
 * 4) When Health drops to a certain point, a patient will release their vile green fluids, either in a Bin if available or on the floor.
 * 5) Eventually, Bins become filled and the only available option is the floor.
 * 6) Medical waste on the floor, reducing environmental Hygiene.
 * 7) Low hygiene causes Health to reduce faster, feeding back into cycle.
 * 8) The Wave Has Arisen.

How to Prevent A Vomit Wave

 * 1) Grow slow. Avoid increases your level or reputation until you are confident your hospital can handle the increased patient population.
 * 2) Prioritise diagnosis over treatment. Keep patients moving through the chain of diagnosis to treatment, even failed treatments. The fewer days they are in the hospital, the less their Health will reduce, the less they will barf.
 * 3) Place Bins everwhere and use the best Bins you can. Even the best Hospital will have sick patients. Give them a spot to spew that is not your floor. This will reduce the impact on Hygiene and make cleanup by Janitors more efficient. If you see a Patient vomit, consider placing a Bin near where they did so.
 * 4) Make sure you have sufficient Janitors to keep your halls clean and your Bins available.

How to Ride the Wave when It Hits

 * 1) Vomit Waves are self-defeating once they peak. As Patients leave, disgusted by these unsanitary conditions, your reputation will reduce. This in turn reduces your number of incoming patients, which will give you breathing room. But we want to resolve a Vomit Wave quickly.
 * 2) Hire as many Janitors as you reasonably can. More Janitors mean more cleaning, restoring Hygiene levels. When the Wave has past, fire the excess.
 * 3) Look for Low Health patients and send them Home . Going home will reduce your reputation, but they will take others with them if the Wave grows.
 * 4) Send Patients direct to Treatment.Sending them to Treatment early may kill them, but Ghosts are a manageable problem with enough Ghost Capture qualifications. And captured ghosts pollute no halls.

Conclusion
The goal in Two-Point Hospital is to have as many Patients coming to your Hospital as you can reasonably manage. If at any time you feel overwhelmed, don't panic. Make use of appropriate safety valves to slow your growth, expand your operations, then continue on to success.