Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course – 8% of subjects had very high viral loads, one-third of whom had little to no symptoms; in individuals infected with the B.1.1.7 variant, average viral loads were 10 times higher.

Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course – Science

Commentary: Estimating infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2: New study on viral load – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

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Of 25,000+ people who tested positive for #COVID19 in Germany, 8% had very high viral loads; about a third of these had little to no symptoms. The results suggest asymptomatic people can be expected to be as infectious as hospitalized patients @c_drosten https://t.co/mRkzJrwFwU pic.twitter.com/vsrameCAWk

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