A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best.
It’s in half the states, including New York, with soaring annual increases in the number of patients sickened, per the American Journal of Infection Control.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls Candida auris an “urgent” threat, but talk is cheap. The agency is largely to blame for its rapid spread. It’s a textbook example of a federal agency crying out for a Trump makeover.
Between 30% and 60% of patients who develop invasive C. auris infection die. To put that in perspective, just over 1% of COVID-19 patients die.
In 2024, the CDC reported 4,514 cases in patients of all ages — nine times the size of the measles outbreak that is…
