Serial Interval of COVID-19 among Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases
Zhanwei Du, Xiao-Ke Xu, Ye Wu, Lin Wang, Benjamin J. Cowling, Lauren Ancel Meyers
Abstract
We estimate the distribution of serial intervals for 468 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease reported in China as of February 8, 2020. The mean interval was 3.96 days (95% CI 3.53-4.39 days), SD 4.75 days (95% CI 4.46-5.07 days); 12.6% of case reports indicated presymptomatic transmission.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Confidence intervalSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Medicine2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCoronavirusBetacoronavirusTransmission (telecommunications)Coronavirus InfectionsInternal medicineVirologyOutbreakDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)Electrical engineeringEngineeringCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchData-Driven Disease Surveillance