could have incubation period of 24 days

OMGosh...if that is true - we are all so screwed...so hoping (praying!!!) this turns out to be wrong when peer reviewed...
There is just so many things about this virus that screams bioweapon to me - scary stuff!

Here's the research piece this article is based on https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1

Spacing and bolding are mine. There's a 30 page PDF that I'm about to look through to see if there is more mention of the 24 day instance(s).

Abstract
Background: Since December 2019, acute respiratory disease (ARD) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China. We sought to delineate the clinical characteristics of these cases. Methods: We extracted the data on 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV ARD from 552 hospitals in 31 provinces/provincial municipalities through January 29th, 2020. Results: The median age was 47.0 years, and 41.90% were females. Only 1.18% of patients had a direct contact with wildlife, whereas 31.30% had been to Wuhan and 71.80% had contacted with people from Wuhan. Fever (87.9%) and cough (67.7%) were the most common symptoms. Diarrhea is uncommon.

The median incubation period was 3.0 days (range, 0 to 24.0 days).

On admission, ground-glass opacity was the typical radiological finding on chest computed tomography (50.00%). Significantly more severe cases were diagnosed by symptoms plus reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction without abnormal radiological findings than non-severe cases (23.87% vs. 5.20%, P<0.001). Lymphopenia was observed in 82.1% of patients. 55 patients (5.00%) were admitted to intensive care unit and 15 (1.36%) succumbed. Severe pneumonia was independently associated with either the admission to intensive care unit, mechanical ventilation, or death in multivariate competing-risk model (sub-distribution hazards ratio, 9.80; 95% confidence interval, 4.06 to 23.67). Conclusions: The 2019-nCoV epidemic spreads rapidly by human-to-human transmission. Normal radiologic findings are present among some patients with 2019-nCoV infection. The disease severity (including oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, blood leukocyte/lymphocyte count and chest X-ray/CT manifestations) predict poor clinical outcomes.

Wonder how this plays out as far as those quarantined at March Field are concerned. Their 2 weeks is up tomorrow.

Sorry not a child. A 27 year old with three day incubation.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001272?query=featured_home

The link is fixed now! 'And I'm preening - I managed to sort a computerish problem out! 🎉 🎈 🎇🧨🎆

The instructions to the system go inside brackets like [this].
for some reason the first one read URL=20% in stead of URL YAY!