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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by Izkata on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:58PM (#22359049)
> Also, you can't just quarantine for two weeks, you need to have a two week interval without any new infections. The two week counter should have been resetting every day that the "new infection count" wasn't zero.

Also 14 days might be too low an estimate, it might actually take up to 24 days for symptoms to appear: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-symptoms-2...

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Re:New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan by allovernow on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:08PM (#22359174)
I read the study that the 24 day timeline comes from - it's a rather uncertain worst case scenario. IIRC it comes from a single case report and it's more likely there's a gap in the transmission path that makes the incubation period look longer than it is.

A more recent study from Chinese researchers (so I don't know how much it can be trusted) studied 1099 infections and reported a more reassuring mean incubation period of 3 days.

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