{"id":2667,"date":"2020-12-10T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:29:20","slug":"transmissibility-of-covid-19-depends-on-the-viral-load-around-onset-in-adult-and-symptomatic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/10\/transmissibility-of-covid-19-depends-on-the-viral-load-around-onset-in-adult-and-symptomatic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmissibility of COVID-19 Depends on the Viral Load around Onset in Adult and Symptomatic Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In a retrospective study of 28 COVID-19 patients in Japan, median viral load at initial sample collection was significantly higher in symptomatic than asymptomatic patients, and also higher among adults than children. Among symptomatic patients (n=18), median viral load was consistently higher in patients identified as household cluster index cases than in non-index cases up to 10 days after symptom onset. Viral load was also higher among index patients than in non-index patients among adults (both symptomatic and asymptomatic; n=21).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kawasuji et al. (Dec 9, 2020). Transmissibility of COVID-19 Depends on the Viral Load around Onset in Adult and Symptomatic Patients. PLOS ONE. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0243597\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0243597<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a retrospective study of 28 COVID-19 patients in Japan, median viral load at initial sample collection was significantly higher in symptomatic than asymptomatic patients, and also higher among adults than children. Among symptomatic patients (n=18), median viral load was consistently higher in patients identified as household cluster index cases than in non-index cases up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/10\/transmissibility-of-covid-19-depends-on-the-viral-load-around-onset-in-adult-and-symptomatic-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}