Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2023)

Increased Hospitalizations Involving Fungal Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, January 2020–December 2021

  • Jeremy A.W. Gold,
  • Stacey Adjei,
  • Adi V. Gundlapalli,
  • Ya-Lin A. Huang,
  • Tom Chiller,
  • Kaitlin Benedict,
  • Mitsuru Toda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2907.221771
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 7
pp. 1433 – 1437

Abstract

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Hospitalizations involving fungal infections increased 8.5% each year in the United States during 2019–2021. During 2020–2021, patients hospitalized with COVID-19–associated fungal infections had higher (48.5%) in-hospital mortality rates than those with non–COVID-19–associated fungal infections (12.3%). Improved fungal disease surveillance is needed, particularly during respiratory virus pandemics.

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