{"id":3929,"date":"2020-01-29T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:07:03","slug":"epidemiological-characteristics-of-novel-coronavirus-infection-a-statistical-analysis-of-publicly-available-case-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/29\/epidemiological-characteristics-of-novel-coronavirus-infection-a-statistical-analysis-of-publicly-available-case-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiological characteristics of novel coronavirus infection: A statistical analysis of publicly available case data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using publicly available case data in official reports from government institutes, researchers used modelling techniques to estimate:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incubation period of 2-9 days with a median incubation period of 4-5 days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Median time from illness onset to hospitalization = 3 days<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recommended length of isolation and quarantine should be at least 9 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Median time delay of 13.8 days from illness onset to death should be used for estimating case fatality risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linton et al. (Jan 29, 2020). Epidemiological characteristics of novel coronavirus infection: A statistical analysis of publicly available case data. Pre-Print. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.26.20018754\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.26.20018754<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using publicly available case data in official reports from government institutes, researchers used modelling techniques to estimate: Incubation period of 2-9 days with a median incubation period of 4-5 days. Median time from illness onset to hospitalization = 3 days Recommended length of isolation and quarantine should be at least 9 days.\u00a0 Median time delay&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/29\/epidemiological-characteristics-of-novel-coronavirus-infection-a-statistical-analysis-of-publicly-available-case-data\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}