COVID-19 and the difficulty of inferring epidemiological parameters from clinical data

[...]seeing how to usefully incorporate the six positive cases from this sample is difficult. Case mortality data from China provide an upper bound for the IFR, and with extra assumptions these data also supply information on how the IFR varies with age. Because prevalence is unknown, the data conta...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet infectious diseases 2021-01, Vol.21 (1), p.27-28
Hauptverfasser:	Wood, Simon N, Wit, Ernst C, Fasiolo, Matteo, Green, Peter J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age groups Coronaviruses Correspondence COVID-19 Cruise ships Diamonds Epidemics Epidemiology Fatalities Humans Infectious diseases Repatriation SARS-CoV-2 Upper bounds
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