{"id":5326,"date":"2020-03-19T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2021-03-02T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:02:35","slug":"the-difference-in-the-incubation-period-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-infection-between-travelers-to-hubei-and-non-travelers-the-need-of-a-longer-quarantine-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/19\/the-difference-in-the-incubation-period-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-infection-between-travelers-to-hubei-and-non-travelers-the-need-of-a-longer-quarantine-period\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference in the incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection between travelers to Hubei and non-travelers: The need of a longer quarantine period"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on 175 confirmed cases reported in China between Jan 20 and Feb 12, Leung found a significant difference in the length of the incubation period of COVID-19 among travelers (10.3 \u2013 13.3 days) and non-travelers (14.6 \u2013 17.1 days) to Hubei, which suggests the need to extend quarantine periods to 3 weeks to account for the high variability of the incubation period in COVID-19 cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another study that looked at the incubation period of COVID-19 for over 2,000 non-Hubei cases found that incubation periods ranged from 0 to 33 days (median for adults was 7 days and children was 9 days). The authors suggest that extending the adult quarantine period to 18-21 days could be more effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leung (Mar 18, 2020). The difference in the incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection between travelers to Hubei and non-travelers: The need of a longer quarantine period.<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Infection Control and Hospital Epi.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.81\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.81<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jiang et al.<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Mar 15, 2020). Is a 14-day quarantine period optimal for effectively controlling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Pre-print downloaded Mar 19 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.15.20036533\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.15.20036533<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on 175 confirmed cases reported in China between Jan 20 and Feb 12, Leung found a significant difference in the length of the incubation period of COVID-19 among travelers (10.3 \u2013 13.3 days) and non-travelers (14.6 \u2013 17.1 days) to Hubei, which suggests the need to extend quarantine periods to 3 weeks to account&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/19\/the-difference-in-the-incubation-period-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-infection-between-travelers-to-hubei-and-non-travelers-the-need-of-a-longer-quarantine-period\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","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=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}