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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is US site for $7M study of COVID-19 transmission – EurekAlert

Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, as well as in Nicaragua and New Zealand, are enrolling 250-325 households in a new study designed to study how COVID-19 spreads within households. The study was awarded $7.1 milli…

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Los Angeles (September 14, 2020) — One of the mysteries about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, is how it is spread within households, including why some family members develop the viral infection and others do not. Is there a way to predict who will be symptomatic or asymptomatic and how long someone remains infectious? Are asymptomatic and symptomatic cases equally able to transmit infection? Are there “super-spreaders” within famili…

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