When Hospitals Harm: Multimodal Entry of SARS-CoV-2 into Inpatient Healthcare.

An editorial is presented on the infection-prevention goal for acute-care hospitals is to ensure the safety of the patients, families, care team members, and support staff within its walls. Topics include the detection of nosocomial transmission of illness signals a failure somewhere along the way, with measures in use to prevent such occurrences, and the paucity of descriptions of nosocomial transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in the acute-care setting.