SARS-CoV-2 infection: Initial viral load (iVL) predicts severity of illness/outcome, and declining trend of iVL in hospitalized patients corresponds with slowing of the pandemic

• Said El Zein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Omar Chehab ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Omar Chehab, Amjad Kanj

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Amjad Kanj ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Omar Chehab, Amjad Kanj

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0470-3603

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• Sandy Akrawe,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Samer Alkassis,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Tushar Mishra,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Maya Shatta,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Nivine El-Hor,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Hossein Salimnia,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Pranatharthi Chandrasekar

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pchandrasekar@med.wayne.edu

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0774-1058

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