{"id":7501,"date":"2020-04-04T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:09:22","slug":"viral-dynamics-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/viral-dynamics-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Dynamics of Coronavirus (Covid-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified in China in December 2019. There is limited support for many of its key epidemiologic features, including the incubation period for clinical disease (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]), which has important implications for surveillance and control activities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Viral Dynamics of Covid-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7505\" style=\"width: 689px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en.jpg\" alt=\"Viral Dynamics of Coronavirus (Covid-19)\" width=\"689\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en.jpg 689w, https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en-320x150.jpg 320w, https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en-640x300.jpg 640w, https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en-360x169.jpg 360w, https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-en-500x234.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viral Dynamics of Coronavirus (Covid-19)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Data:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mean incubation period was 5.2 days (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.1 to 7.0), with the 95th percentile of the distribution at 12.5 days.<\/li>\n<li>Median days from first symptom to death were 14 (range 6-41) days, and tended to be shorter among people of 70 year old or above (11.5 [range 6-19] days) than those with ages below 70 year old (20 [range 10-41] days).<\/li>\n<li>3.4% Mortality Rate estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lauer SA, Grantz KH, Bi Q, Jones FK, Zheng Q, Meredith HR, Azman AS, Reich NG, Lessler J. The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application.\u00a0Ann Intern Med. 2020 Mar 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32150748\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Li X, Wang W, Zhao X, Zai J, Zhao Q, Li Y, Chaillon A. Transmission dynamics and evolutionary history of 2019-nCoV.\u00a0J Med Virol. 2020 May;92(5):501-511. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32027035\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kucharski AJ, Russell TW, Diamond C, et al. Early dynamics of transmission and control of COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020;S1473-3099(20)30144-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32171059\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Apr 04,2020.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2123,2146,2156,2153,1035,2154,2155],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-dinamica","tag-dynamics","tag-early","tag-transmission","tag-viral"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9360,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions\/9360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}