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How much virus does a person with COVID exhale? New research has answers
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Nature 609, 23 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02202-z
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Correction 17 August 2022: An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of viral RNA exhaled by a ‘superspreading’ study participant. The article also included ambiguous wording about the number of viral samples used to seed cells in the laboratory.
References
Lai, J. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.27.22278121 (2022).
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