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FWIW studies have seen 0-24 days incubation period (though typically 2-7 days, still long) - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba....

This study (https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200370, small cohort of 21) had a symptoms-to-discharge period of 19+/-4 days (17+/-4 days in hospital).

Assuming you have a perfect lock down now. People will continue for 7 days to get infected from asymptomatic cases (much longer for some). At the end of that week it will be one week until most symptoms have appeared (but again much longer for some). Now you have hospitalisations of the infected, or home care (as hospitals won't be able to cope). In UK you have to test negative from 3 tests on two subsequent days in order to be cleared for release (report on BBC Radio 4 from an infected patient); assuming a similar standard then we're looking at 7+7+17 days, 31 days until people are starting to be safe to associate with ...

I don't share your "2 weeks top" blind faith.

>Testing there is showing a >1% death rate and because of how those tests work, it is provably about a half to a full order of magnitude lower.

Could you source the proof of this please?



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