Among patients diagnosed with an invasive mold infection at four Atlanta hospitals over five years, 45 percent were dead within 90 days.
That figure, published by the CDC in a Surveillance Summaries report, covers 449 confirmed cases identified between 2020 and 2024. Half of those patients required intubation and mechanical ventilation. Forty-three percent had been in an intensive care unit in the two weeks before the specimen that identified their infection was collected.
