WASHINGTON - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the health care sector has experienced an increase in infections, another grim announcement to an industry impacted severely by the pandemic."We know the COVID-19 pandemic has placed tremendous stress on the health care sector, from hospitals to nursing homes to outpatient clinics," Dr.
Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said in a press briefing Friday. Last week, the CDC published data from more than 3,000 hospitals showing that infections people contracted while in hospitals went up in 2020, after going down for several years in a row.Dr.