{"id":108,"date":"2023-07-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-10-01T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T16:42:47","slug":"hospital-acquired-covid-infections-worsened-as-the-pandemic-progressed-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/hospital-acquired-covid-infections-worsened-as-the-pandemic-progressed-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital-acquired COVID infections worsened as the pandemic progressed, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chances of becoming infected with COVID-19 while hospitalized increased as the pandemic progressed, according to recent Canadian research.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, significantly more Canadians became infected with hospital-acquired COVID-19 during the fifth and sixth waves of the pandemic \u2014 the first two Omicron waves from late 2021 until the spring of 2022 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" class=\"research-citation\">Mitchell R, Cayen J, Thampi N, et al. Trends in Severe Outcomes Among Adult and Pediatric Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, March 2020 to May 2022. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(4):e239050. doi:10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2023.9050<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2803959\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2803959<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chances of becoming infected with COVID-19 while hospitalized increased as the pandemic progressed, according to recent Canadian research.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, significantly more Canadians became infected with hospital-acquired COVID-19 during the fifth and sixth waves of the pandemic \u2014 the first two Omicron waves from late 2021 until the spring of 2022 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/hospital-acquired-covid-infections-worsened-as-the-pandemic-progressed-research-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hospital-acquired COVID infections worsened as the pandemic progressed, research finds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,25,78,23,24,8,14,230],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-hospitalizations","tag-hospitals","tag-nosocomial-infections","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}