key: cord-321361-6bkrt49b authors: Chang, De; Mo, Guoxin; Yuan, Xin; Tao, Yi; Peng, Xiaohua; Wang, Fusheng; Xie, Lixin; Sharma, Lokesh; Dela Cruz, Charles S.; Qin, Enqiang title: Reply to Suri et al.: COVID-19 Real-Time RT-PCR: Does Positivity on Follow-up RT-PCR Always Imply Infectivity? date: 2020-07-01 journal: Am J Respir Crit Care Med DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202004-1458le sha: doc_id: 321361 cord_uid: 6bkrt49b nan To the Editor: We read with keen interest the results of the SUMMIT (Study to Understand Mortality and Morbidity in COPD) randomized controlled trial of fluticasone furoate/vilanterol in patients with moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with a history of cardiovascular disease or at increased cardiovascular risk (1) . The trial evaluated both the value of aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV) to predict all-cause mortality (ACM) in this population and Time kinetics of viral clearance and resolution of symptoms in novel coronavirus infection Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Research Team. Epidemiologic features and clinical course of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore Transmission of 2019-nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study