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		Treatment of 5 Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19 with Convalescent Plasma (jamanetwork.com)
		1 point by blacksqr on March 28, 2020 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

masonic on March 28, 2020 [–]

  Viral loads also decreased and *became negative* within 12 days

How does viral load become negative? Do they subtract antibody count from virus count?

eschutte2 on March 28, 2020 | [–]

I think they mean negative as in "not positive" (for virus).

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