I saw this language: "The thing is that this claim is being reported in quite a second-hand fashion, so I can see a number of ways that the message here could have been garbled." I misunderstood you as meaning the data about viral load. I now speculate you mean the Israeli reports about relative viral loads of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated people with Delta infections?
Took me a few minutes to find, but here's the Chinese preprint that's the source of that "1000 times" figure.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.07.21260122v1
They didn't measure viral load per se (counting virions), they did quantitative PCR tests.
Thought you might be interested.
I don't know how to tell you this, but that's the preprint I did a writeup about on Monday :)
Appreciate the supportive effort though!
I saw this language: "The thing is that this claim is being reported in quite a second-hand fashion, so I can see a number of ways that the message here could have been garbled." I misunderstood you as meaning the data about viral load. I now speculate you mean the Israeli reports about relative viral loads of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated people with Delta infections?