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Newborn Baby Had SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load 51,000 Times Higher Than Other Pediatric Patients

@COVID19Up: Researchers are puzzled over the unusually high viral load of a newborn baby that was sick with COVID-19 in Washington, D.C., last year.

The newborn, who has since recovered, was treated in September at Children's National Hospital, where doctors confirmed that the baby was infected with a variant of SARS-CoV-2.

The infant was reportedly found to have a viral load 51,418 times higher than other pediatric patients. (The hospital has treated more than 2,000 children for COVID-19.)

Jeremy Luban, a virologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, told the outlet that the viral load in the infant "is shocking and noteworthy."
SOURCE | TIP

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