One in eight hospital virus cases 'caught on-site'
Only those who tested positive 15 days or more after admission were counted as hospital-acquired infections, however.
And if patients who tested positive after five to 14 days are included, the proportion increases to 23%. But, because of the long incubation period of the virus, it is impossible to be sure how many of these patients would have been infected in hospital. Prof Duncan Young, an expert in intensive-care medicine at Oxford University, said the study would also not have captured those infected during a short hospital stay, as patients were not followed up after discharge.
And of course the study only looked at people who were being treated in hospital for coronavirus, so did not include the vast majority of people who caught the disease and either showed no illness or just recovered at home with no need for treatment.Follow Nick
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