Does anyone have information regarding the percentage of cases where the patient incubation period exceeded 14 days...
I know general thought is 14 days and articles state as long as 24...
I am wondering the percentages that require longer than 14 days...
Perhaps others can chime in, but I have only heard of a handful of cases/sporadic reports. Like there was one in Sweden recently that became ill over 3 weeks after return from China. But as for percentages, I don’t think anyone has that much data on it yet.
I just watched a video about this topic featuring tweets by
Dr. Eric Deng about a woman who tested negative after 14 day quarantine and then came down with Corona six days later.
Per our conversation earlier, I just saw this...
.Recovered patients may still be infectious
In a grim assessment, a key Chinese respiratory disease expert described the situation of the epidemic as a “see-saw battle”, despite the drop in daily recorded cases in recent days.
“We should not be relaxed. The figure may go up again,” said Zhao Jianping, head of an expert team working to contain the outbreak in Hubei.
Zhao told the magazine Southern People Weekly there were cases in China in which recovered patients continued to show traces of the virus through nucleic acid tests. There were similar results in Canada, where nose and throat swabs taken from a couple who had recovered from Covid-19 revealed they still had traces of the virus.
“We also have such cases. This is dangerous. Where do you put these patients? You can’t send them home because they might infect others, but you can’t put them in hospital as resources are stretched,” he said