Modeling the onset of symptoms of COVID-19: Effects of SARS-CoV-2 variant.

ABSTRACT: Identifying order of symptom onset of infectious diseases might aid in differentiating symptomatic infections earlier in a population thereby enabling non-pharmaceutical interventions and reducing disease spread. Previously, we developed a mathematical model predicting the order of symptoms based on data from the initial outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in China using symptom occurrence at diagnosis and found that the order of COVID-19 symptoms differed from that of other infectious diseases including influenza. Whether this order of COVID-19 symptoms holds in the USA under changing conditions is unclear. Here, we use modeling to predict the order of symptoms using data from both the initial outbreaks in China and in the USA. Whereas patients in China were more likely to have fever before cough and

SUBMITTER: Larsen JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8675677 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature