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Using excess deaths and testing statistics to improve estimates of COVID-19 mortalities

Factors such as non-uniform definitions of mortality, uncertainty in disease prevalence, and biased sampling complicate the quantification of fatality during an epidemic. Regardless of the employed fatality measure, the infected population and the number of infection-caused deaths need to be consist...

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Autores principales: Böttcher, Lucas, D’Orsogna, Maria R., Chou, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7814852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33469606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.10.21249524