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Cancer Patients Hospitalized with a High Viral Load of COVID-19 Have a Greater Risk of Dying – DocWire News

For cancer patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), higher viral load is linked to a greater risk of death, according to a study published in the

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For cancer patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), higher viral load is linked to a greater risk of death, according to a study published in the journal Cell.
Researchers two diagnostic tests to measure the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in load in nasal swabs, which they obtained upon admission to three New York City hospitals between March 15 and May 14, 2020. They assessed 1000 patients with active cancer, and 2,914 patients without cancer. Overall, about half of patients with cancer had vir…

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