Hospital-acquired Covid ranged from 1% to 25% of cases in different hospitals.
A major analysis of the spread of Covid within hospitals has shown a massive gulf in ability to contain the virus during the first wave.
But the analysis of 314 UK hospitals showed that ranged from just one in 100 cases caught in hospital, to more than one in four.The study, by nine UK universities and published in the Lancet, analysed hospital data from two-thirds of Covid patients in the first wave."There will be tragedy behind this story, people that came into hospital with one problem, caught Covid and sadly died," one of the researchers, Prof Calum Semple, from the University of Liverpool, said.
"There's a number of factors - we know there were challenges around PPE [personal protective equipment] at the start." The availability of testing, which is now used to separate Covid and non-Covid patients, may also have been an issue.
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