COVID-19 fatality rate for Saudi Arabia, updated 3 June 2020

Aim of this work is to assess the fatality rate of Covid-19 infection for Saudi Arabia. The preliminary data up to June 3, 2020 suggest a fatality rate at about 0.9% of the more severely infected. This is much smaller than the values experienced in Western Europe, where the outbreak has been however...

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Autor principal: Boretti, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32745636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2020.07.014
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description Aim of this work is to assess the fatality rate of Covid-19 infection for Saudi Arabia. The preliminary data up to June 3, 2020 suggest a fatality rate at about 0.9% of the more severely infected. This is much smaller than the values experienced in Western Europe, where the outbreak has been however more widespread. The likely fatality rate including mild and asymptomatic is about 0.2%. This is 4 times larger than the death rate for influenza and pneumonia for Saudi Arabia.
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spelling pubmed-78330382021-01-26 COVID-19 fatality rate for Saudi Arabia, updated 3 June 2020 Boretti, Alberto J Glob Antimicrob Resist Short Communication Aim of this work is to assess the fatality rate of Covid-19 infection for Saudi Arabia. The preliminary data up to June 3, 2020 suggest a fatality rate at about 0.9% of the more severely infected. This is much smaller than the values experienced in Western Europe, where the outbreak has been however more widespread. The likely fatality rate including mild and asymptomatic is about 0.2%. This is 4 times larger than the death rate for influenza and pneumonia for Saudi Arabia. The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2020-09 2020-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7833038/ /pubmed/32745636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2020.07.014 Text en © 2020 The Author Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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