SARS-CoV-2 PCR cycle threshold at hospital admission associated with patient mortality.
Jui ChoudhuriJamal H CarterRandin NelsonKarin A SkalinaMarika Osterbur-BadheyAndrew D JohnstonD Yitzchak GoldsteinMonika ParoderJames M SzymanskiPublished in: PloS one (2020)
SARS-CoV-2 Ct was found to be an independent predictor of patient mortality. However, further study is needed on how to best clinically utilize such information given the result variation due to specimen quality, phase of disease, and the limited discriminative ability of the test.