There is a wide disparity worldwide in data collection and sharing of rates of hospital-acquired coronavirus disease (COVID). There is an ethical imperative that such information is systematically gathered, distributed and acted on to reduce rates of this form of preventable and devastating transmission during a pandemic.
Keywords: data collection; data sharing; healthcare-acquired infection; nosocomial COVID.
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