When hospitals Harm: Multi-modal entry of SARS-CoV-2 into inpatient healthcare

The primary infection prevention goal for acute care hospitals is to ensure the safety of the patients, families, care team members, and support staff within its walls. Detection of nosocomial transmission of illness signals a failure somewhere along the way with measures in use to prevent such occurrences. There is a paucity of descriptions of nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the acute care setting, and thus, we recognize the importance of the paper, Nosocomial transmission of COVID-19: a retrospective study of 66 hospital-acquired cases in a London teaching hospital, by Rickman et al, published in this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases [1].
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