{"id":681,"date":"2020-09-02T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=681"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T18:21:10","slug":"does-incubation-period-of-covid-19-vary-with-age-a-study-of-epidemiologically-linked-cases-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/02\/does-incubation-period-of-covid-19-vary-with-age-a-study-of-epidemiologically-linked-cases-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Incubation Period of COVID-19 Vary with Age? A Study of Epidemiologically Linked Cases in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A study among people with confirmed, locally transmitted SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore (n=164) reported that patients older than 70 years had significantly longer incubation periods for COVID-19 than those younger than 70 years (median 8 days vs. 5 days, p=0.04). Researchers concluded that elderly people may benefit from earlier and proactive testing, especially after exposure to a positive case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Tan et al. (Sept 2, 2020). Does Incubation Period of COVID-19 Vary with Age? A Study of Epidemiologically Linked Cases in Singapore. Epidemiology and Infection. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0950268820001995\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0950268820001995<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study among people with confirmed, locally transmitted SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore (n=164) reported that patients older than 70 years had significantly longer incubation periods for COVID-19 than those younger than 70 years (median 8 days vs. 5 days, p=0.04). Researchers concluded that elderly people may benefit from earlier and proactive testing, especially after exposure to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/02\/does-incubation-period-of-covid-19-vary-with-age-a-study-of-epidemiologically-linked-cases-in-singapore\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}