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Number of days between the episode date and specimen collection (n=291)a
a Patients with “time to specimen collection” less than 0 days (n=8) and patients with “time to specimen collection” greater than 30 days (n=14) were excluded. Patients missing specimen date or symptom onset date (n=46) were also excluded
