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Can someone explain whether corona is unique in this attribute of spreading versus other viruses? I would expect most cold-related viruses or other viruses in the human virome to exhibit this pattern.

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As you suspect, Coronavirus isn't unique in having an incubation period, or in being infectious during the latter part of the incubation period.

Of course, there's questions of degree.

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