An estmated 1% or 2% of hospital patients in England caught COVID after admission--study

Researchers estimate 1% or 2% of hospital patients in England caught COVID after admission US Navy, Ryan M. Breeden / Flickr cc CIDRAP

During the country’s second COVID wave, 95,000 to 167,000 hospital patients in England were infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the hospital, partly due to a lack of single rooms, suggests a study published yesterday in Nature.

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