{"id":4761,"date":"2020-03-02T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:43:24","slug":"transmission-characteristics-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-in-china-a-study-driven-by-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/02\/transmission-characteristics-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-in-china-a-study-driven-by-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission characteristics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China: a study driven by data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Non-Hubei COVID-19 cases in China were assessed to estimate generation time, incubation period, and time from symptom onset to isolation and diagnosis. While the current standard is a 14-day quarantine, this study suggests that this may be insufficient. The authors recommend a 22-day quarantine period. They also estimate that patients may become infectious on average 3.9 days prior to major symptoms, limiting the effectiveness of contact tracing and quarantine efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li et al. (March 1, 2020). Transmission characteristics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China: a study driven by data. Pre-print downloaded Mar 2 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.26.20028431\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.26.20028431<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Hubei COVID-19 cases in China were assessed to estimate generation time, incubation period, and time from symptom onset to isolation and diagnosis. While the current standard is a 14-day quarantine, this study suggests that this may be insufficient. The authors recommend a 22-day quarantine period. They also estimate that patients may become infectious on average&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/02\/transmission-characteristics-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-in-china-a-study-driven-by-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":[22],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","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=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}