"Higher viral loads...were detected soon after symptom onset" and that this pattern "resembles that of patients with influenza"
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"The viral load that was detected in the asymptomatic patient was similar to that in the symptomatic patients, which suggests the transmission potential of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients"
-Transmission may occur early in the course of infection and this wanes with time, as in many resp infections.
-Those with mild (or no?) symptoms may be capable of transmitting the infection. But what proportion of total infected fall in this category?