Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

March 27, 2020

A special case of COVID-19 with a long duration of viral shedding for 49 days.

Category:

Topic:

  • The authors describe a mild COVID-19 family cluster, including a patient with a 49-day viral shedding period, the longest ever recorded. This cluster might have low toxicity and transmissibility but prolonged infective ability, contradicting known associations between viral shedding and prognosis.
  • Infusion of plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients showed high efficiency in viral elimination.

Tan et al.  (Mar 27, 2020). A special case of COVID-19 with a long duration of viral shedding for 49 days. Pre-print downloaded Mar 27 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040071