Synonyms for incubation period
in·cu·ba·tion pe·ri·od

Princeton's WordNet

1. incubation periodnoun

   the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease

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1. Steve Schmidt:

   The important thing is to quickly collect as many of the carcasses as possible, to prevent other birds from feeding on the infected birds, biologists observed about 20 eagles in the vicinity of some of the carcasses. Because of a delayed incubation period it is uncertain where these eagles might be located, if and when the avian cholera affects them.

2. Martin Cetron:

   We believe that this approach of having a quarantine for the incubation period offers the greatest level of protection for the American public in preventing introduction and spread, that is our primary concern.

3. Alex Azar:

   Dr. Redfield and I made the offer on January 6th - 36 days ago, 60,000 cases and 1,300 deaths ago, we made the offer to send the The CDC experts in to assist their Chinese colleagues to get to the bottom of key scientific questions like, how transmissible is this disease ? What is the severity ? What is the incubation period and can there be asymptomatic transmission ?

4. Will Humble:

   What I'd be focusing right now on is sounding the alarm to our hospital systems to get ready, because no matter what Will Humble do at this point, given where we are at the increase in cases, the exponential growth, taking into consideration the incubation period for this virus, we're going to go into surge capacity mode by the Fourth of July.

5. David Heymann:

   Infectious agents travel around in humans many times within their incubation period.