People who are infected with the coronavirus carry similar levels of the pathogen in their nose, throat, and lungs whether they have symptoms or not, a new study from South Korea showed.
A team of researchers led by Seungjae Lee at Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine analyzed swabs taken between March 6 and March 26 from 303 people isolated at a center in Cheonan, following an outbreak among a religious group in another city.
Among those who were initially asymptomatic, 89 never developed symptoms at all — about 30 percent of the total. All were sampled at regular intervals after day eight of isolation, and the samples returned comparable values of the virus’ genetic material from the upper and lower airways.
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