How to Use incubation period in a Sentence

incubation period

noun

• That's because the virus's incubation period is around five days.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
• The biggest problem is that there's about a nine to ten-day incubation period, on average.
  — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2020
• And, remember that the incubation period is from two to 14 days.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2020
• Given that the virus has a two-week incubation period, it obviously cannot be attributed to the lockdown.
  — Rupa Subramanya, Quartz India, 13 Apr. 2020
• The highly contagious virus can spread quickly and quietly with incubation periods as long as 14 days.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 20 Mar. 2020
• The incubation period for the coronavirus can be as long as two weeks, meaning that patients may not have a fever or start coughing for as long as 14 days while spreading the virus.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2020
• Researchers believe the incubation period before symptoms is roughly five days on average.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
• In Guangzhou province in China, researchers found that the median incubation period is about four days before symptoms, if any, set in.
  — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2020
• The rate of speed is governed by those two things: that rate of transmissibility (the short or longness of the incubation period), and the generational interval.
  — The Economist, 4 Apr. 2020
• The idea is to get past the incubation period of the virus and limit the spread of an outbreak.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• But the effects of the protests may not be seen for weeks due to the incubation period the virus poses.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2020
• The incubation period for the virus can be up to 14 days.
  — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2020
• The idea is to get past the incubation period of the virus and limit further spread.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• The incubation period seems to be 2 to 12 days, more or less.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
• Males defend the female and the nest through most of the incubation period.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023
• And then, students should do their work online for two weeks, the incubation period of the virus.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• But the rapid tests were far from foolproof and were sometimes foiled by the virus' lengthy incubation period.
  — Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• There is an incubation period of some seven to 14 days, the CDC said.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 7 June 2022
• The virus is thought to have an incubation period that can last as long as 14 days, though is often between four and five days.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2020
• Their parent strain, BA.5, was said to have an incubation period of three to five days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• The head of the agency said that will put them three weeks out from the last round of reopenings — and the virus’ typical incubation period.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2021
• The incubation period, the time between exposure to the virus and the onset of symptoms, passed two weeks ago.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• The incubation period for the disease is anywhere from 2 days to three weeks, according to the WHO.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The incubation period — the period from infection to the start of symptoms — is as short as two days to as long as three weeks.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Wooten said that now that the two-week incubation period for the virus has passed, such an increase is unlikely.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• Measles also has a long incubation period, which means that someone could have measles and not know it for as long as two or three weeks.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• The incubation period for Covid-19 is at least two days.
  — Faye Chiu, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• The coronavirus incubation period seems much longer than that of the flu.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2020
• The incubation period is three to 17 days, when there may be no other symptoms.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
• The incubation period for Lyme disease typically ranges from three to 30 days after the tick bite, with an average onset time of about seven to 14 days.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024