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Why estimating population-based case fatality rates during epidemics may be misleading

Different ways of calculating mortality ratios during epidemics can yield widely different results, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. We formulate both a survival probability model and an associated infection duration-dependent SIR model to define individual- and population-based estimates...

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Autores principales: Böttcher, Lucas, Xia, Mingtao, Chou, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7276002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32511575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.26.20044693