Wayne State University issued the following announcement on Oct. 18.
A team of physicians and researchers led by Pranatharthi Chandrasekar, M.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine professor of Internal Medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, found that the viral load in nasopharyngeal samples in patients with COVID-19 decreased as the pandemic continued, and that the decline was associated with a decrease in the rate of death from the disease.
Presented virtually at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference on Coronavirus Disease Sept. 23-25, the study showed that the decline in the viral load was associated with a decrease in the death rate of those infected with COVID-19 during the period between April 4 and June 5.
“A decline in the initial viral load on presentation may represent a decrease in the exposure to the virus after widespread implementation of social distancing measures and use of facemasks in public,”
Original source can be found here.
Source: Wayne State University
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