Trajectories of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding among admitted patients at a tertiary-care center in California, 2020-2022

• Main Authors: Ralph Tayyar (Author), Melanie Kiener (Author), Jessica Ferguson (Author), Jane W. Liang (Author), Gustavo Contreras Anez (Author), Guillermo Rodriguez Nava (Author), Caitlin A. Contag (Author), Alex Zimmet (Author), Krithika Srinivasan (Author), John Shepard (Author), Benjamin A. Pinsky (Author), Lucy Tompkins (Author), Aruna Subramanian (Author), Jorge Salinas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: SARS-CoV-2 viral load decreases over time after illness onset. However, immunocompromised patients may take longer for viral load decrease or have a more erratic viral-load trajectory. We used strand-specific assay data from admitted patients to evaluate viral-load trajectories after ill...