Open Access<p>Probable Longer Incubation Period for Elderly COVID-19 Cases: Analysis of 180 Contact Tracing Data in Hubei Province, China</p>
Author(s) -
Jingyi Dai,
Lin Yang,
Jun Zhao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s257907
Subject(s) - incubation period , incubation , medicine , contact tracing , covid-19 , outbreak , biology , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biochemistry
Factors associated with the incubation period of COVID-19 are not fully known. The aim of this study was to estimate the incubation period of COVID-19 using epidemiological contact tracing data, and to explore whether there were different incubation periods among different age gr1oups.