📍VIRAL LOAD SAME regardless of symptoms. Korean study found that viral load of #SARSCoV2 were similar in asymptomatic patients versus viral load in symptomatic patients.
➡️ Thus, isolation of infected #covid19 patients needed regardless of symptoms. 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
➡️ Thus, isolation of infected #covid19 patients needed regardless of symptoms. 🧵 jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
2) “303 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection isolated in a community treatment center in the Republic of Korea, 110 (36.3%) were asymptomatic at the time of isolation and 21 of these (19.1%) developed symptoms during isolation.”
➡️ 81% of asymptomatic remained so thru isolation.
➡️ 81% of asymptomatic remained so thru isolation.
3) Also worrisome—“The median (IQR) interval time from diagnosis to symptom onset in presymptomatic patients was 15 (13-20) days” !
➡️ Pre-symptomatic patients are those who start asymptomatic but then show symptoms later... and 15 days (13-20) is much longer than 2 weeks.
➡️ Pre-symptomatic patients are those who start asymptomatic but then show symptoms later... and 15 days (13-20) is much longer than 2 weeks.
