Lowering SARS-CoV-2 viral load might affect transmission but not disease severity in secondary cases - Authors' reply

Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Jul;21(7):915-916. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00210-3. Epub 2021 Apr 14.

Authors

Matthew A Spinelli¹, George Rutherford², Monica Gandhi³

Affiliations

¹ Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
³ Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Electronic address: monica.gandhi@ucsf.edu.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
SARS-CoV-2*
Severity of Illness Index
Viral Load

Grants and funding

R01 AI158013/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States