Serial Interval of COVID-19 among Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases

By Z. Du, Xiao-Ke Xu, Ye Wu, Lin Wang, Benjamin J. Cowling, Lauren Ancel Meyers. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020

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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.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation

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