According to a new study, about 2% of asymptomatic college students were noted to carry 90% of COVID-19 viral load levels on a Colorado campus in 2020. The viral loads in these students were found to be as high as those observed in hospitalized patients.

Senior study author Sara Sawyer, PhD, professor of virology at the University of Colorado Boulder said that walking around a college campus could be as dangerous as walking through a COVID hospital ward; these viral super carriers will be found equally in both settings. The study strengthens the evidence that viral load is not too tightly correlated with symptoms… (Medscape)