{"id":17508,"date":"2020-09-18T01:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2020-09-18T01:12:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:42:01","slug":"explained-what-is-serial-interval-and-how-can-it-be-managed-to-control-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-serial-interval-and-how-can-it-be-managed-to-control-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is serial interval, and how can it be managed to control Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> According to a study, China which has now gone over a month without any locally transmitted Covid-19 cases was able to contain Covid-19 due to its ability to manage the <strong>serial interval.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Serial Interval:<\/strong> It is the duration between symptom onset of a primary case and symptom onset of secondary cases(contacts) generated by the primary case.&nbsp;<ul><li>In simple terms, the serial interval is the gap between the onset of Covid-19 symptoms in Person A and Person B who is infected by Person A.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Origin: <\/strong>The term was first used by British physician William Pickles, who had initially referred to it as transmission interval with reference to a hepatitis epidemic in the United Kingdom during 1942-45.<\/li><li><strong>Factors on which Serial Interval depends:<\/strong><ul><li><strong>Incubation period: <\/strong>It is the time between a person\u2019s exposure to the virus and symptom onset.<\/li><li><strong>Reproduction rate or R naught: <\/strong>It is the number of people who will be infected by one infected person.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The serial interval helps to gauge the effectiveness of infection control interventions besides indicating rising population immunity and forecast future incidence.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to a study, China which has now gone over a month without any locally transmitted Covid-19 cases was able to contain Covid-19 due to its ability to manage the serial interval. Facts: Serial Interval: It is the duration between symptom onset of a primary case and symptom onset of secondary cases(contacts) generated by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-serial-interval-and-how-can-it-be-managed-to-control-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is serial interval, and how can it be managed to control Covid-19?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[3038],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-serial-interval","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704852195},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}