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[TNSmedicalresearch] -- Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health issued the following news release:
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- Median Time From Exposure To Symptoms Affirms Earlier Estimates And Supports CDC's Current 14-Day Quarantine Period
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An analysis of publicly available data on infections from the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the respiratory illness COVID-19 yielded an estimate of 5.1 days for the median disease incubation period, according to a new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This median time from exposure to onset of symptoms suggests that the 14-day quarantine period used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for individuals with likely exposure to the coronavirus is reasonable.
The analysis suggests that about 97.5 percent of people who develop symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection will do so within 11.5 days of exposure. The researchers estimated that for every 10,000 individuals quarantined for 14 days, only about 101 would develop symptoms after being released from quarantine.
The findings were published online March 9 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
For the study,...