{"id":8011,"date":"2020-07-07T17:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:46:36","slug":"association-of-initial-viral-load-in-sars-cov-2-patients-with-outcome-and-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/association-of-initial-viral-load-in-sars-cov-2-patients-with-outcome-and-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of initial viral load in SARS-COV-2 patients with outcome and symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Argyropoulos et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">higher<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">o<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">V-2 viral load<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was associated with shorter duration of symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prior to testing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">p<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">atients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0seen in emergency departments in New York City (n=205)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was associated with shorter duration of stay for hospitalized patients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=40<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Viral\u00a0load<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was not associated with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">admission to ICU, length of oxygen support, or overall survival.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"14\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors suggest that higher viral loads are seen in mild rather than severe disease states because\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">viral load\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reflects the time since onset of infection.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Argyropoulos et al. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">July 2, 2020). Association of initial viral load in SARS-COV-2 patients with outcome and symptoms. The American Journal of<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pathology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajpath.2020.07.001\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajpath.2020.07.001<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argyropoulos et al.\u00a0found that\u00a0higher\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 viral load\u00a0was associated with shorter duration of symptoms\u00a0prior to testing\u00a0among\u00a0patients\u00a0seen in emergency departments in New York City (n=205)\u00a0and\u00a0was associated with shorter duration of stay for hospitalized patients\u00a0(n=40).Viral\u00a0load\u00a0was not associated with\u00a0admission to ICU, length of oxygen support, or overall survival.\u00a0 The authors suggest that higher viral loads are seen in mild rather&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/association-of-initial-viral-load-in-sars-cov-2-patients-with-outcome-and-symptoms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}