Crowded hospitals are now home to a rapidly-spreading superbug

• The faster-than-usual spread of a type of fungus in clinics and hospitals around the country is being blamed on the COVID-19 crisis. 
• Crowded clinics are becoming a breeding ground for this drug-resistant "superbug." 
• The CDC is tracking cases on a state-by-state basis, and some are seeing huge booms in the number of confirmed cases.

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If I asked you what the biggest health threat was right now you'd of course say COVID-19. The disease brought on by an infection of the novel coronavirus is indeed severe and potentially life-threatening, but it's not the only thing that hospitals are struggling to fight back against.

As National Geograph reports, hospitals and clinics in the midst of battling cases of COVID-19 are now also coming under attack from a type of antibiotic-resistant germ called Candida auris. It's a yeast that can cause a severe infection after first taking root in a patient's ears or sores, and cases are skyrocketing. The most likely explanation for the boom would appear to be the fact that clinics and hospitals are currently swamped with COVID-19 patients, allowing the fungal infection to spread rapidly and largely unchecked.

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