It is the first reported increase in health care-associated infections since 2015, according to the CDC study published Thursday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

The findings "are a reflection of the enormous stress that COVID has placed on our health care system," Arjun Srinivasan, MD,, associate director of the CDC's Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs in Atlanta, says.

He was not an author of the article, but the research occurred under his supervision.

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