⚠️BREAKING—HOTEL CROSS TRANSMISSION OF #B11529—
Traveler from South Africa🇿🇦 flew to Hong Kong🇭🇰 with new variant—but wasn’t discovered until 4th day of quarantine on 2nd PCR. Another guest across hallway cross-infected—only positive on 8th day on 4th PCR! Both Pfizer vaccinated🧵
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1463998740340121601
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⚠️BREAKING—HOTEL CROSS TRANSMISSION OF #B11529—
Traveler from South Africa🇿🇦 flew to Hong Kong🇭🇰 with new variant—but wasn’t discovered until 4th day of quarantine on 2nd PCR. Another guest across hallway cross-infected—only positive on 8th day on 4th PCR!”
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Looking at your linked Twitter thread I see that the two infected guests had PCR CT values of 18 and 19 cycles respectively. Those are very high viral loads and they both are ASYMPTOMATIC.