Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 273
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 58 - lowest since Dec 12
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,042
DC Daily SARS-CoV2 Tests, Positives, and 7-Day % Positive
DC 7-day Positives (raw and test-adjusted) and Deaths
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This is so important. If you're over 65 (or under but medically high risk) and test positive GET THE ANTIBODY DRIP. If your doctor doesn't know anywhere to get it, call hospitals/infusion centers around town until you find it. This is ridiculous.
NATURE: "We tested 690 respiratory samples from the 129 patients for the presence of infectious virus using cell culture and determined the viral RNA load with RT-qPCR (Fig. 1). Infectious SARS-CoV-2 was isolated from 62 respiratory tract samples (9.0%) of 23 patients (17.8%)."
"The median time of infectious virus shedding was 8 days post onset of symptoms (IQR 5–11, range 0–20) and probit analysis showed a probability of ≤5% for isolating infectious SARS-CoV-2 when the duration of symptoms was 15.2 days (95% CI 13.4–17.2) or more."
"The median viral load was significantly higher in culture positive samples than in culture negative samples (8.14 versus 5.88 Log10 RNA copies/mL, p < 0.0001) and the probability of isolating infectious SARS-CoV-2 was less than 5% when the viral load was below 6.63."