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In a review of data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a team led by researchers from AdventHealth Sebring in Florida found that White people accounted for 83.9% of the 216,311 reported US deaths associated with CDI from 1999 through 2023, while Black Americans accounted from 8.1% and Hispanic people 5.5%. According to the CDC, people are 7 to 10 times more likely to get CDI while taking an antibiotic or during the following month At an IDWeek press briefing, lead study author Muhammad Asghar, MBBS, MD, a resident physician at AdventHealth Sebring, said the findings were surprising, because healthcare-related infections typically have social determinants, and the people who get them—and die from them—tend to be from minority populations, have fewer resources, and have less access to healthcare. An uptick in C diff deaths from 2006 to 2015 Other notable trends were that CDI-associated deaths were higher in women than men (58.2% vs 41.9% in men) and that 33.0% of deaths occurred in the South census region, followed by 24.4% in the Midwest, 22.2% in the Northeast, and 20.3% in the West. IDWeek is the joint annual meeting of IDSA, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.