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1. People infected with #covid19 had serial testing for virus in the upper respiratory tract.

"Higher viral loads...were detected soon after symptom onset" and that this pattern "resembles that of patients with influenza"

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2. Unfortunately:

"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"
3. Take home points:

-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?
4. I sound like a broken record, but still feel that the term "subclinical" is more accurate than "asymptomatic"
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