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@datum

Nice paper, thank you. I don't think I'd seen that one.

The missing ingredient for me in using that kind of incubation data in practice is, what's the gap between "detectable on Pluslife" and "symptom onset"? The idea of an outlier 7-day incubation is quite scary - but in reality that person might've already had detectable virus at day 3, which (unless I missed it) wasn't measured here. So the delay could partly have been how long it took for their body to start reacting - or even how long it took the person to notice, because some people easily ignore symptoms if they're not too bad - rather than only how long it took the virus to brew.

I would love to see more of this kind of research segmented by other variables, as well. That paper suggests a slightly longer incubation for over-50s: what's actually going on there? Could that be an older-age decrease in average reactiveness of immune system, for example? What if you could segment the time-to-symptom results by "who's got an over-reactive, average, or under-reactive immune system"?

So much yet to find out!

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