00000nam 2200000zi 4500 9.932229 CaOODSP 20240222102739 m o d f cr mn||||||||| 240109e202108 onc ob f000 0 eng d 9780660695396 CaOODSP eng rda CaOODSP HP5-179/2024E-PDF Pussegoda, Kusala, author. Evidence brief of SARS-CoV-2 incubation periods. Summary of incubation periods COVID-19 summary of incubation periods Ottawa, ON : Public Health Agency of Canada = Agence de la santé publique du Canada, August 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (17 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Issued also in French under title: Synthèse en bref sur les périodes d'incubation du SRAS-CoV-2. Cover title. "Pub.: 230677"--Page 2. "Prepared by: Kusala Pussegoda and Lisa Waddell, …"--Acknowledgements, page 7. Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-17). "The incubation period is defined as the time between exposure to an infectious pathogen and symptom onset. The incubation period of SARS-CoV-2 determined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centers for Disease Control (ECDC) is 0-14.0 days, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is 2.0-14.0 days and the Public Health Agency of Canada is 1.0-14.0 days. A comparison across what was known on incubation periods for other coronaviruses reported the average incubation periods of SARS was 4.6 days (95% CI: 3.8-5.8 d) and MERS was 5.2 days (95% CI: 1.9-14.7 d). This review summarizes the incubation period of the original SARS-CoV-2 variants prior to the emergence of variants of concern (VOC) from several systematic reviews that included studies from the first 12 months of the pandemic and more recent research that has focused on establishing the incubation period of the VOCs. …"--Introduction, page 4. COVID-19 (Disease) Epidemiology. Public Health Agency of Canada, issuing body. Synthèse en bref sur les périodes d'incubation du SRAS-CoV-2. (CaOODSP)9.932230 PDF 661 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/aspc-phac/HP5-179-2024-eng.pdf HTML N/A https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/canadas-reponse/summaries-recent-evidence/evidence-brief-sars-cov-2-incubation-periods.html 230677