While healthcare facilities have been focusing on preventing the spread of COVID-19, it’s likely that the rates of other healthcare-associated infections have risen.

That’s according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology based on the work of researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looking at the rates of infections including central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), ventilator-associated events (VAEs), select surgical site infections, Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The researchers found significant increases in the U.S. national standardized infection ratios (SIRs) for MRSA, CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAE in 2020 compared with 2019.

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