Serial Interval of COVID-19 among Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases.
Du, Zhanwei;Xu, Xiaoke;Wu, Ye;Wang, Lin;Cowling, Benjamin J;Meyers, Lauren Ancel;
emerging infectious diseases2020Vol. 26
269
du2020serialemerging
Abstract
We estimate the distribution of serial intervals for 468 confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus disease reported in China as of February 8, 2020. The mean interval was 3.96 days (95% CI 3.53-4.39 days), SD 4.75 days (95% CI 4.46-5.07 days); 12.6% of case reports indicated presymptomatic transmission.