Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK's first COVID-19 pandemic wave

Affiliations

• ¹ Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YE, UK. Electronic address: jonathan.read@lancaster.ac.uk.
• ² Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ³ Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁴ Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ⁵ Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁶ Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁷ National Infection Service, Public Health England, UK.
• ⁸ Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Nottingham, UK.
• ⁹ National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹¹ Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.