Duration of exposure is the most important risk factor for nosocomial COVID-19 in open multibed wards

• Main Authors: Hwang Ching Chan (Author), Alicia Ang (Author), Nazira Fauzi (Author), Revathi Sridhar (Author), Annie Poh (Author), Isaac Low (Author), Dale Fisher (Author), Paul Tambyah (Author), Jyoti Somani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The National University Hospital (NUH) is a 1,200 bed tertiary-care hospital with no documented nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 among patients for the first year and a half of the pandemic, despite 65% of the patients being housed in 4- to 8-bedded open cubicles with shared bathrooms...