Deadly Coronavirus Spreads Easily in Hospitals: Study
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The new coronavirus that’s killed almost two-thirds of the people it’s infected, mostly in Saudi Arabia, spreads easily in hospitals, according to the first detailed description of the outbreak since it started in September.
A 56-year-old man with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province of al-Ahsa in April, sparked a chain of transmission that infected 22 others in four hospitals in an eight-week period, according to the study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.