Research reveals the average time it takes between infection and symptoms for recent COVID variants — and it's pretty fast.
The amount of time it takes to start experiencing COVID-19 symptoms if you're infected is shrinking.
“The incubation periods of COVID-19 caused by the Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants were 5.00, 4.50, 4.41, and 3.42 days, respectively,” the 2022 review stated. “While the incubation period for COVID-19 can be anywhere from 2-14 days after exposure to the virus, with the omicron variants currently circulating we see incubation periods much shorter,”, the campus public health response team director at the University of California, Irvine, told HuffPost via email.
symptomatic faster, you have more of the virus circulating in your system. This makes you more likely to spread the sickness to someone else.oughing and sneezing, accelerate the ability of the virus to move from person to person,” he said.Plus, since there is no longer a window of seven to 10 days between infection and symptoms, the virus doesn’t have to hang out in a person for a extended period of days before infecting someone else, Souleles explained.
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