The chances of becoming infected with COVID\u002D19 while hospitalized increased as pandemic progressed, according to recent Canadian research.
In fact, significantly more Canadians became infected with hospital-acquired COVID-19 during the fifth and sixth waves of the pandemic — the first two Omicron waves from late 2021 until the spring of 2022 — than during earlier waves, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers looked at cases of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between March 2020 and May 2022.
Many public health measures in Ontario and elsewhere were dropped in the spring of 2022, even as the Omicron variant — the most contagious version of the virus until then — continued to spread. The authors said their findings were similar to a report from England in which about 20 per cent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were first identified more than seven days after being admitted, in Dec. 2021, compared with only 8.3 per cent of patients in early November 2021, which could reflect the Omicron wave.Article content
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