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Observational studyJournal of medical virology2021

Epidemiological characteristics and incubation period of SARS-CoV-2 during the 2020-2021 winter pandemic wave in North China: An observational study.

Tiantian Liu, Zijian Chen, Jin Xu

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Observational study in Journal of medical virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and Blood Safety: An Updated Review.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Tiantian LiuSchool of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Zijian ChenSchool of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Jin XuSchool of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2434-7183

Funding

Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 persists across the world, it is of importance to understand the distributional behavior of the incubation period of the variants for both medical research and public health policy-making. We collected the published individual-level data of 941 patients of the 2020-2021 winter pandemic wave in Hebei province, North China. We computed some epidemiological characteristics of the wave and estimated the distribution of the incubation period. We further assessed the covariate effects of sex, age, and living with a case with respect to the incubation period by a model. The infection-fatality rate was only 0.1%. The estimated median incubation period was at least 22 days, significantly extended from the estimates (ranging from 4 to 8.5 days) of the previous wave in mainland China and those ever reported elsewhere around the world. The proportion of asymptomatic patients was 90.6%. No significant covariate effect was found. The distribution of incubation period of the new variants showed a clear extension from their early generations.

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Infectious Disease Incubation PeriodAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolChinaCOVID-19FemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPandemicsSARS-CoV-2asymptomatic infectionCOVID-19incubation periodSARS-CoV-2

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PMID34302700
PMCPMC8427015

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