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Where have you read that it spreads during the incubation time? So far Swedish epidemiologs have not seen any evidence of that fact.
by Zolomon 7y ago
Where have you read that it spreads during the incubation time? So far Swedish epidemiologs have not seen any evidence of that fact.
- swsieber 7y agoI've heard 1-14 days with an average of 3 days, but I'd have to dig up sources. But even if the long incubation periods are rare, they'll still have an outsized impact.
- toohotatopic 7y ago>average of 3 days That should be 'mean'
- vikramkr 7y agoMean is a type of average. And for communicating to the public, unless there's a strong reason otherwise, statistical jargon should absolutely be avoided in favor of more universally understood terminology.
- toohotatopic 7y agoEven worse, this is a total blunder, I meant 'median'.
- mariushn 7y agohttps://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses
- Someone 7y agoAlso, what would the mechanism be? Coughing is the ‘normal’ mechanism to move viruses out of your lungs. If it spreads before the coughing starts, i.e. during normal breathing, doesn’t it get out of your body too easily?
- Blahah 7y agoThe virus accumulates in digestive organs and sheds in fecal matter. Gastrointestinal (fecal-oral) infection route seems likely. See: - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939v... - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025601v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025601v... > Compared with SARS, COVID-19 was transmitted in a more diverse way, from person to person, asymptomatic infected people and possible fecal-oral transmission, created the conditions for a large-scale spread. - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023721v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023721v...
- allovernow 7y agoI've grown tired of pulling up sources on mobile but publications claim the virus accumulates in nasal passaged during incubation. Also thought to play a role in the high false negative rates for testing.
- Blahah 7y agoThis is also true - digestive and respiratory organs appear to accumulate the virus most. Also heart and liver, which explains the high co-morbidity for people with damage to those organs. See http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00082 http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00082
- allovernow 7y agoLooks like any organ with ACE2 receptors.
- Blahah 7y agoLots of reports of this, for example: http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00078 http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00078