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. 2022 Nov 11;22:841. doi: 10.1186/s12879-022-07810-8

Table 1.

Patient admission rates with community-onset and hospital-onset BSI during the pre- and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic periods

Category Pre-pandemic rate/1000 admissions (July 2019–February 2020)
(n = 1,789,449 admissions)
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic rate/1000 admissions
(March 2020-September 4, 2021)
(n = 3,450,243 admissions)
Community-onset 11.24 (20,113) 11.51 (39,740)a
Hospital-onset 1.55 (2771) 1.99 (6864)b
Total 12.79 (22,884) 13.50 (46,568)b

aP ≤ 0.0022 and bP < 0.0001 for post-SARS-CoV-2 period vs pre-SARS-CoV-2 period