The number of infections has tripled over the last three years.
By 2021, the annual tally of cases had increased 95 percent, from 756 in 2020 to 1,471 in 2021. Preliminary count at least another 2,377 cases for 2022. Thirty states and the District of Columbia have now reported Candida auris patients.
"With COVID when we were so short, sometimes somebody might wear a gown form patient to patient - and then if that gown was contaminated, it's possible that that might have allowed some transmission," Hayden said."So again, these were like when we were really in crisis, early on."
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