Name for the time between infection and hosptial visit

[athowes]

Can we call this total_delay rather than delay?

My reasoning: everything is a delay. I don't love "total delay" but it's more specific than "delay". Suppose we are having a meeting and someone says "the delay for COVID-19" wouldn't we expect them to clarify which delay?

Is it called delay because of something to do with EpiNow2?

[athowes]

Again this is a bit of an issue about consistency. I don't mind too much what you do here, but I'd prefer to be calling it total_delay at my end

[zsusswein]

EpiNow2 calls it delay as in delay_opts(). I don't like that name either -- I feel good about total_delay

[athowes]

When EpiNow2 calls it delay as in delay_opts() is that because delay refers to a generic delay and we happen to using the total delay in there?

[zsusswein]

No -- it's distinguishing from generation_time_opts() and truncation_opts(). The delay is meant to be the total delay from infection to case observation.

[athowes]

It seems like it's OK to call total_delay in cfa-parameter-estimates so from my POV I think we can close this issue.