… causing severe lower respiratory disease, most notably the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus responsible for the recent COVID-19 pandemic. …

… , and health care costs. Approximately 20% of patients with health care–associated pneumonia
have viral respiratory … virus, parainfluenza virus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). …

… Health care–associated viral respiratory infections result in increased … health care costs.
Approximately 20% of patients with health care–associated pneumonia have viral respiratory …

… infections, their use has shown a very limited capability to prevent the transmission of
respiratory illnesses in healthcare settings, and therefore deep concern remains over the potential …

… , and/or pharyngeal erythema or purulent exudate in the throat, except for intubated patients
and those with chronic respiratory disease in whom a change in consistency or quantity of …

… ) nosocomial viral respiratory tract infections in 38 patients during the study period, including
17 patients admitted to the adult hospital and 23 patients admitted to the pediatric hospital (…

… % of patients with health care-associated pneumonia have viral respiratory infections,
with … If an inpatient showed signs and symptoms of a respiratory illness, the clinical areas …

… viral pathogens are increasingly recognized among critically ill adult patients with
community-acquired severe respiratory illness… respirators to medical masks in health care …

… underlying disease (most frequently diabetes mellitus (37%) and structural lung disease (28…
measurements targeted at health care personnel and family members to control further …

… of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, and for
some immunosuppressed patients with pulmonary infiltrates and respiratory failure (18, 20, 115–…