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Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by katbyte on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:44AM (#22476110)
It can actually be upto three weeks before symptoms show all the while being infectious.
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Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by Thriptic on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:28PM (#22476615)
If it's true that there is a three week latency period while you can still be infectious then we are screwed. There's basically nothing you can do because quarantine becomes impossible short of forcibly quarantining everyone.

If even Xi Jinping doesn't have the political cover to pull it off, the US political leadership surely won't.

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Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by Izkata on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:44PM (#22477485)
The absolute highest outlier (like, only one case so far) seems to be 27 days, with the vast majority being under 5 days.
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