Becker's Healthcare March 13, 2020
The new coronavirus can spread from one person to another in less than a week, and over 10 percent of patients are infected by an asymptomatic person with COVID-19, a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases shows.
Researchers studied more than 450 infection case reports from 93 cities in China. They calculated the time it took for symptoms to appear in two people with the virus: the person who infects another, and the second person who contracts the infection from the first person.
They found that in the chain of transmission for COVID-19, the time...