This is an Accepted Manuscript for Epidemiology & Infection. Subject to change during the editing and production process. DOI: 10.1017/S095026882100008X This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. SHORT REPORT TITLE PAGE SARS-CoV-2 Viral RNA Load Dynamics in the Nasopharynx of Infected Children K. Q. KAM 1-3 , K. C. THOON 1-4 , M. MAIWALD 2, 5, 6 , C. Y. CHONG 1-4 , H. Y. SOONG 5 , L. H. LOO 5 , N. W. H. TAN 1-4 , J. LI 1-3 , K. D. NADUA 1-3 , C. F. YUNG 1, 2, 4 1 Infectious Disease Service, Department of Paediatrics, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 2 Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 3 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 4 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Imperial College London, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 5 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 6 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore Authors statements The authors declare no conflict of interest. The authors did not receive funding for this work. All authors have seen, approved the manuscript and contributed significantly to the work. All authors have been acknowledged as contributors and as providers of personal communications. https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026882100008X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 179.61.157.212, on 13 Jan 2021 at 13:20:42, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at