SARS-CoV-2 viral load in sputum correlates with risk of COVID-19 progression

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The pandemic of coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) imposes a heavy burden on medical resources [1]. Whether there is correlation between viral load and disease severity has not been clarified. In the study, we retrospectively collected the virological data, as well as demographic, epidemiological clinical information of 92 patients with confirmed COVID-19 in a single hospital in Zhejiang Province, China. We compared the baseline viral loads between severe patients and those mild to moderate at admission and also between those developing severe disease during hospitalization and those not.