{"id":2094,"date":"2020-11-20T13:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:35:35","slug":"coronavirus-is-most-infectious-in-the-five-days-after-symptoms-first-appear-study-suggests-highlighting-the-need-to-isolate-cases-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/2020\/11\/20\/coronavirus-is-most-infectious-in-the-five-days-after-symptoms-first-appear-study-suggests-highlighting-the-need-to-isolate-cases-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus is MOST infectious in the five days after symptoms first appear, study suggests &#8211; highlighting the need to isolate cases early"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lead author Dr Muge Cevik, of the University of St Andrews, said: &#8216;This is the first systematic review and meta-analysis that has comprehensively examined and compared viral load and shedding for\u2026 three human coronaviruses.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It found that the level of virus causing the current pandemic is highest&nbsp;at the time symptoms begin, or before day five of symptoms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, the viral loads of SARS and MERS-CoV peaked at 10-14 days and 7-10 days after symptom onset, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-8967141\/Coronavirus-infectious-five-days-symptoms-appear.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-8967141\/Coronavirus-infectious-five-days-symptoms-appear.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead author Dr Muge Cevik, of the University of St Andrews, said: &#8216;This is the first systematic review and meta-analysis that has comprehensively examined and compared viral load and shedding for\u2026 three human coronaviruses.&#8217; It found that the level of virus causing the current pandemic is highest&nbsp;at the time symptoms begin, or before day five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chill-out","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/aznita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}