Table 1.

Summary information about SARS-COV-2 positive RNA samples and individuals included in this study.

	High viral RNA content*	Middle viral RNA content*	Low viral RNA content*
SARS-COV-2 positive RNAs n.	21	82	63
Patient’s gender	9 F, 12 M	34 F, 48 M	32 F, 31 M
Patient’s age (years mean ± SD)	49 ± 20	55 ± 22	44 ± 20
NGS sequenced RNAs	21	60	31

^*RNA samples were grouped applying a hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithm to ddPCR absolute quantification of SARS-CoV-2 genomic and sub-genomic RNAs.