While New Jersey's health care system confronts a growing influx of patients requiring treatment for COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report that details potential risks of non-coronavirus infection transmission in certain hospital settings.
As the CDC noted prominently in its report, the drug-resistant infection outbreak occurred as New Jersey's health system confronted an initial surge in COVID-19 patients last spring. The hospital, which itself saw a surge in COVID-19 patients during the first several months of the pandemic, coordinated with the New Jersey Department of Health to lead the investigation. The CDC later conducted a review of the state health department's assessment.
Of all patients who contracted the infection over the five-month period, more than 80 percent were affected amid the hospital's spike in COVID-19 cases. Half of CRAB-infected patients also tested positive for COVID-19, and slightly more than 40 percent developed CRAB ventilator-associated pneumonia. Most of the patients identified with CRAB infections required intubation and mechanical ventilation.
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