25,000 Covid-19 victims were infected in hospital: One in six patients on wards caught coronavirus while being treated for other illnesses, figures show

More than 25,000 patients have caught coronavirus in hospital since the second wave of the pandemic began in September.

One in six Covid-19 patients in NHS hospitals in England were infected while being treated for other conditions, according to internal Health Service figures.

So far this month, 5,684 Covid-positive in-patients out of 44,315 – about one in eight – were infected after being admitted for other conditions.

An intensive care consultant in the Midlands said that he took a 'snapshot' of all the patients in his unit on one day last month and found that 40 per cent of them had been infected in hospital.

A specialist Covid nurse treating people at home said many of her patients had contracted the virus in hospital and were re-admitted when their conditions worsened.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157627/One-six-hospital-patients-caught-Covid-19-treated-illnesses-figures-show.html

That's where my mom caught it and consequently me and my sister.

Hospitals are always a dangerous place. For decades they have been the transmitters of staph infections:

CDC wrote:The germ comes in two variants: methicillin-resistant staph (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible staph (MSSA). People have higher risk for staph infection when they have surgery, stay in health care facilities, have medical devices in their body, inject drugs, or come in close contact with someone who has staph. If the germ enters the bloodstream, staph can cause serious infections that lead to sepsis or death.
https://essentialhospitals.org/quality/cdc-staph-infections-rising-communities/#:~:text=The%20germ%20comes%20in%20two,with%20someone%20who%20has%20staph.

With the infectious rate of covid, I'm sure it's the same.

I personally know of two people who have died of Coronavirus, both were clear when they went into hospital, both died of it in hospital.

They did both have underlying medical conditions, but nothing that was going to kill them anytime soon.