DECEMBER 4, 2020

Hospital Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Rare

By Ethan Covey

Transmission of COVID-19 in the hospital setting appears to be rare, said researchers who reviewed the spread of the disease among hospitalized patients in the Northeast during the spring surge.

“We know that many patients have been avoiding essential care due to fear of contracting COVID-19 in health care settings,” said Chanu Rhee, MD, an infectious disease physician and intensivist and associate hospital epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in