Table 2.
Individualized estimates of the incubation period from China.
| Locale | Samples | Mean | Median | 95% CI | Interquartile | Percentiles | Reference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 5 | 95 | 97.5 | 99 | |||||||
| Outside Wuhan | 88 | 6.4 | 5.6–7.7 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 10.3 | 11.1 | 11.9 | 57 | ||
| Shenzhen, Guangdong | 183 | 4.8 | 4.2–5.4 | 1.6 | 14.0 | 70 | |||||
| Changsha, Hunan | 149 | 7.48 | 7 | 4–10 | 27 | ||||||
| Shiyan, Hubei | 180 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 5.4–6.7 | 1.2 | 14.3 | 18.7 | 58 | |||
| Wuhan centric | 1211 | 8.5 | 7.2–9.2 | 14.6 | 21.2 | 62 | |||||
| Beijing | 62 | 4.5 | 71 | ||||||||
| Mainland China | 1099 | 4 | 2–7 | 72 | |||||||
| Mainland China | 85 (pediatric) | 9 | 6–13 | 73 | |||||||
| Shanghai | 10 | 6 | 3.5–9.5 | 35 | |||||||
| Outside Hubei | 136 | 8.3 | 7.4–9.2 | 2.3 | (90%ile 14.2) | 63 | |||||
| Outside Wuhan | 111 | 5.1 | 4.5–5.8 | 2.2 | 11.5 | 55 | |||||
| Hubei and non-Hubei | 175 | 1.8 7.2 | 1.0–2.7 6.1–8.4 | 3.2 14.6 | 59 | ||||||
| Wuhan | 425 | 5.2 | 4.1–7.0 | 12.5 | 74 | ||||||
| Outside Wuhan | 158 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 5.0–6.3 | 10.8 | 14.2 | 75 | ||||
| Jilin | 87 | 10.4 | (range 2–25) | 76 | |||||||
| Mainland China | 1158 | 7.2 | 6.9–7.5 | 15.1 | 18.7 | 60 | |||||
| Outside Hubei | 59 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 5.1–6.6 | 2.7 | 12.9 | 64 | ||||
| Outside Wuhan | 1084 | 7.8 | 7.2–8.5 | (90%ile 14.3) | 65 | ||||||
| Outside Wuhan | 104 | 6 | 77 | ||||||||
| Outside Hubei | 98 | 5.3 | 4.6–6.0 | 11.1 | 16.1 | 39 | |||||
| Mainland China | 24 | 4.2 | 3.5–5.1 | 78 | |||||||
| Wuxi, Jiangsu | 46 | 4.8 | 3.6–5.9 | 12 | 79 | ||||||
| Tianjin | 135 | 7.5 | 6.8–8.6 | 40 | |||||||
| Outside Hubei | 106 | 4.9 | 4.4–5.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 9.9 | 11.1 | 12.5 | 80 | ||
| Shiyan, Hubei | 178 | 5.4 | 4.8–6.0 | 1.1 | 13.7 | 15 | 17.8 | 61 | |||
| Shanghai | 132 | 7.2 | 6.4–7.9 | 16.0 | 20.4 | 81 | |||||
| Dequan | 18 | 8 | 4–12 | 82 | |||||||
| Sichuan | 77 | 7–10 | 2–15 | 83 | |||||||
CI = confidence interval; mean, median, confidence intervals, and percentiles are expressed in days.