uthors collected 1070 specimens from 205 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and 44 of 153 stool specimens (29%) were positive for viral RNA. Four specimens with high copy numbers were cultured and electron microscopy was performed to detect live virus, which was observed in the stool from 2 patients who did not have diarrhea. The authors concluded that although this does not confer infectivity, it raised the possibility of fecal–oral transmission.78 The small sample size of the repo