Years of steady, incremental reductions in key healthcare-associated infections were lost in 2020 in the tsunami of the COVID-19 pandemic, as patients swamped hospitals and thinly staffed infection prevention departments.
<p class="First-paragraph-drop-cap">Years of steady, incremental reductions in key healthcare-associated infections were lost in 2020 in the tsunami of the COVID-19 pandemic, as patients swamped hospitals and thinly staffed infection prevention departments.</p>
Healthcare-Associated Infections Increase Dramatically During Pandemic
‘Our programs are operated on a shoestring in terms of resources’
October 1, 2021