{"id":3799,"date":"2021-02-09T18:35:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:52:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:52:34","slug":"decreased-sars-cov-2-viral-load-following-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/decreased-sars-cov-2-viral-load-following-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Decreased SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load Following Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive samples collected from persons 12-28 days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine had lower viral load concentrations compared to positive samples from non-vaccinated demographically matched persons (based on cycle threshold (Ct) counts to detect genes associated with SARS-CoV-2). The increase in Ct count corresponded to a 4-fold reduction in viral load, which the authors suggest could indicate a lower infectiousness following vaccination.<\/p>\n<p><i>Levine-Tiefenbrun et al. (Feb 8, 2021). Decreased SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load Following Vaccination. Pre-print downloaded Feb 9 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.06.21251283\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.06.21251283<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive samples collected from persons 12-28 days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine had lower viral load concentrations compared to positive samples from non-vaccinated demographically matched persons (based on cycle threshold (Ct) counts to detect genes associated with SARS-CoV-2). The increase in Ct count corresponded to a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/decreased-sars-cov-2-viral-load-following-vaccination\/\">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":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","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=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}