Live in Hong Kong

John Hopkins reports today that the number of cases continues to increase to now over 75,000 world wide. Meanwhile, CNN reported yesterday:

Researchers in China are saying that people with the novel coronavirus may have the same viral load — or amount of virus in their body — whether or not they are actually showing symptoms of illness.

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In a letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers describe how they monitored viral loads of the virus in samples taken from the nose and throat of 18 patients: nine men and nine women ranging in age from 26 to 76 in Zhuhai, in China’s Guangdong province.

Their analysis showed that the 17 patients with symptoms had a similar viral load in tests to the one patient who had no symptoms.