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Estimating the Latent Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Published:2021-09-22 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1058-4838
Container-title:Clinical Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Xin Hualei¹,Li Yu²,Wu Peng¹³,Li Zhili²,Lau Eric H Y¹³,Qin Ying²,Wang Liping²,Cowling Benjamin J¹³,Tsang Tim K¹^ORCID,Li Zhongjie²

Affiliation:

1. WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

2. Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

3. Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Abstract

Abstract Using detailed exposure information on COVID-19 cases, we estimated the mean latent period to be 5.5 (95% CI: 5.1–5.9) days, shorter than the mean incubation period (6.9 days). Laboratory testing may allow shorter quarantines since 95% of COVID-19 cases shed virus within 10.6 (95% CI: 9.6–11.6) days of infection.

Funder

National Key Technology R&D Program of China

National Natural Science Foundation

Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)

Link

http://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab746/40835662/ciab746.pdf

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