Too much focus on the pandemic has lead to an uptick in hospital acquired infections, according to research from the CDC, as noted by our friends at Cleaning and Maintenance Management.
“Several factors likely contributed to the increases in several categories of HAI, among them, the fact that hospital leadership and staff were laser-focused on the pandemic,” write the authors of an accompanying editorial. “As a discipline, we need to develop strategies that can be effective in maintaining the highest possible quality of infection prevention and control activities while still supporting a pandemic response.”
Makes sense. I'd also suspect that overstressed facilities and staff would contribute to the problem - quite significantly.
Going in for my flu shot next week. I'm fully vaccinated against Covid, as are most of my people (we do a good deal of Covid remediation), but I don't much want to visit a hospital for any reason these days.
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