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Fig. 2: Kinetics of RNA viral loads and infectious virus for ancestral SARS-CoV-2 in patients with mild-to-moderate disease.
According to different studies, the incubation period for ancestral SARS-CoV-2 was estimated to lie between 4.6 and 6.4 days. On average, symptoms continue to persist