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Incubation Period and Other Epidemiological Characteristics of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infections with Right Truncation: A Statistical Analysis of Publicly Available Case Data
Natalie Linton
Tetsuro Kobayashi
Yichi Zhang
Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov
Sung-Mok Jung
Katsuma Hayashi
Baoyin Yuan
Ryo Kinoshita
Hiroshi Nishiura
Acceso Abierto
Atribución
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020538
Epidemiology
Infectious diseases
Virus
The geographic spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections from the epicenter of Wuhan, China, has provided an opportunity to study the natural history of the recently emerged virus. Using publicly available event-date data from the ongoing epidemic, the present study investigated the incubation period and other time intervals that govern the epidemiological dynamics of COVID-19 infections. Our results show that the incubation period falls within the range of 2–14 days with 95% confidence and has a mean of around 5 days when approximated using the best-fit lognormal distribution. The mean time from illness onset to hospital admission (for treatment and/or isolation) was estimated at 3–4 days without truncation and at 5–9 days when right truncated. Based on the 95th percentile estimate of the incubation period, we recommend that the length of quarantine should be at least 14 days. The median time delay of 13 days from illness onset to death (17 days with right truncation) should be considered when estimating the COVID-19 case fatality risk.
Journal of Clinical Medicine
17-02-2020
Artículo
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/538
Inglés
Epidemia COVID-19
Investigadores
VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS
Versión publicada
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