Various control measures have been implemented to mitigate the outbreak of COVID-19, such as quarantine of high-risk and sick persons, temporary or permanent closure of seafood and live poultry markets, increased teleworking, reduced operation in the service industry, early suspension of school and ...
To clarify the potential value of shortening the infectious period, Lee and colleagues created acomputational modelthat simulates the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. They used the model to explore how a vaccine ormedicationthat can reduce the contagious period might allevia...
Determiningthe infectious period of COVID-19 is complicated by four factors: 1)people can be diagnosed when they are symptomatic, pre-symptomaticor asymptomatic, 2) the common diagnostic test, RT-PCR, is accuratefor diagnosis as it is able to detect viral genetic material, but it cannot...
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a worldwide public health issue. The incubation period, known as the interval between initial infection and onset of disease, is an important index to characterize the spread of infectious disease and formulate quarantine measures. For example, the mean incubation ...
Forest Plot for the Meta-analysis of Incubation Period for COVID-19 Caused by Wild-type Strain 1. Guan W-J, Ni Z-Y, Hu Y, et al; China Medical Treatment Expert Group for Covid-19. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. 2020;382...
Learn about the latest news and developments related to infectious diseases — including H5N1, Covid-19, hepatitis C, polio, Candida auris, mpox, and more — and how they’re caused, spread, and treated.Latest Health Helen Branswell As officials prepare for WHO-led flu vaccine meeting, ...
The true incidence of COVID-19 in kids is not known due to a lack of widespread testing and prioritization of testing for adults and those with severe illness, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Yonker said she hoped to increase awareness about pediatric COVID-...
Patients with mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 may be infectious for just 10 days. A review of dozens of studies has confirmed the CDC guidance about infectivity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), specifically that people with severe COVID-19 may be infectious for as long as 20...
COVID-19 is now the dominant infectious disease concern in Beijing, with the JN.1 variant being the dominant strain. While the city reported 88,971 cases of 21 infectious diseases in February 2024, including viral hepatitis, tubercu...
The resurgence of the second wave in South America would be an essential lesson for the rest of the world to tighten and improve the current control measures. Peru, a country of around 30 million people, is currently one of the world’s hardest-hit countries with a COVID-19 mortality of...