{"id":3735,"date":"2021-02-05T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2021-02-05T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:30:45","slug":"nasopharyngeal-sars-cov-2-viral-loads-in-young-children-do-not-differ-significantly-from-those-in-older-children-and-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/05\/nasopharyngeal-sars-cov-2-viral-loads-in-young-children-do-not-differ-significantly-from-those-in-older-children-and-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in young children do not differ significantly from those in older children and adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multicenter study of SARS-CoV-2 cases (n=5,544) confirmed by RT-PCR assay found no significant differences in viral concentration (as measured by Ct values) across different age groups. In particular, the children less than 5 years old did not display higher nasopharyngeal viral loads than older children or adults.<\/p>\n<p><i>Madera et al. (Feb 4, 2021). Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in young children do not differ significantly from those in older children and adults. Scientific Reports.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-81934-w\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-021-81934-w<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multicenter study of SARS-CoV-2 cases (n=5,544) confirmed by RT-PCR assay found no significant differences in viral concentration (as measured by Ct values) across different age groups. In particular, the children less than 5 years old did not display higher nasopharyngeal viral loads than older children or adults. Madera et al. (Feb 4, 2021). Nasopharyngeal&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/05\/nasopharyngeal-sars-cov-2-viral-loads-in-young-children-do-not-differ-significantly-from-those-in-older-children-and-adults\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}