New paper out in BMC Infectious Diseases, led by Natalie Wilson with Alicia Grima and Clara Lee: how we define hospital-acquired COVID changes whether we see its true mortality burden, and most common definitions hide it. ๐งต
The implication: hospital-acquired COVID looks both more common and more deadly than strict surveillance definitions suggest. How we count it shapes whether we treat in-hospital respiratory transmission as a measurement footnote or a safety priority.