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. 2020 Oct 30;11:5493. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19057-5

Fig. 2. SARS-CoV-2 viral load is associated with markers of inflammation and disease severity.

Fig. 2

a Heat map of Spearman correlation values with bold numbers indicating P  <  0.05. Absolute lymphocyte count, c-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels in hospitalized participants with and without detectable plasma (b), nasopharyngeal (c), and sputum (d) viral loads. NP nasopharyngeal, OP oropharyngeal, VL viral load. P values are from a two-tailed Wilcoxon rank sum test.