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Min-Chul Kim, Chunguang Cui, Kyeong-Ryeol Shin, Joon-Yong Bae, Oh-Joo Kweon, Mi-Kyung Lee, Seong-Ho Choi, Sun-Young Jung, Man-Seong Park, and Jin-Won Chung
February 18, 2021
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

“The data reported here represent all the patients with Covid-19, as confirmed by positive real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing, who were hospitalized at Chung-Ang University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, between February and June 2020...

Viral culture was positive only in samples with a cycle-threshold value of 28.4 or less. The incidence of culture positivity decreased with an increasing time from symptom onset and with an increasing cycle-threshold value.”

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COVID-19,clinical cases,health statistics,polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing issues