Internal medicine

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Antibiotics

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Biology

Microbiology

Pandemic

Bacteremia

Medicine

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

We observed bacterial or fungal coinfections in COVID-19 patients admitted between March 1 and April 18, 2020 (152 of 4,267, 3.6%). Among these patients, mortality was 57%; 74% were intubated; 51% with bacteremia had central venous catheters. Time to culture positivity was 6–7 days, and 79% had received prior antibiotics. Metallo-β-lactamase–producing E. cloacae coinfections occurred in 5 patients.

Bacterial and fungal coinfections in COVID-19 patients hospitalized during the New York City pandemic surge