{"id":8404,"date":"2020-07-22T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:14:23","slug":"serial-interval-of-sars-cov-2-was-shortened-over-time-by-nonpharmaceutical-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/serial-interval-of-sars-cov-2-was-shortened-over-time-by-nonpharmaceutical-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Interval of SARS-CoV-2 Was Shortened over Time by Nonpharmaceutical Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Analyzing 677 transmission pairs in mainland China, Ali et al. found that the COVID-19 serial interval<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0time between symptom onset\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infector and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infectee<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in a linked transmis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sion pair<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">shortened\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from 7.8 days to 2.6 days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0between Jan 9 and Feb 13<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">serial interval<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was positively associated with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">length of time\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">between a person\u2019s symptom onset and their isolation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(i.e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">isolation delay<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The investigators\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">attribute these findings<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the adoption of policies for rapid isolation of people with COVID-19\u00a0symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and\u00a0argue\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that changes in the serial interval indicat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e effective implementation of transmission reduction interventions.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ali et al. (July 21, 2020). Serial Interval of SARS-CoV-2 Was Shortened over Time by Nonpharmaceutical Interventions. Science.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abc9004\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abc9004<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyzing 677 transmission pairs in mainland China, Ali et al. found that the COVID-19 serial interval, which\u00a0is the\u00a0time between symptom onset\u00a0for the\u00a0infector and\u00a0the\u00a0infectee\u00a0in a linked transmission pair,\u00a0shortened\u00a0from 7.8 days to 2.6 days\u00a0between Jan 9 and Feb 13.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0serial interval\u00a0was positively associated with\u00a0the\u00a0length of time\u00a0between a person\u2019s symptom onset and their isolation\u00a0(i.e.\u00a0isolation delay). The investigators\u00a0attribute these findings\u00a0to\u00a0the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/22\/serial-interval-of-sars-cov-2-was-shortened-over-time-by-nonpharmaceutical-interventions\/\">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-8404","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\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}