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Covid-19 fatality is likely overestimated

2020; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.m1113

ISSN

1756-1833

Autores

Joshua D. Niforatos, Edward R. Melnick, Jeremy Samuel Faust,

Tópico(s)

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Resumo

The final case fatality rate (CFR) from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, will likely be lower than those initially reported.1 Previous reviews of H1N1 and SARS show the systematic inflation of early mortality estimates.23 Early estimates of H1N1’s mortality were susceptible to uncertainty about asymptomatic and subclinical infections, heterogeneity in approaches to diagnostic testing, and biases in confounding, selection, detection, reporting, …

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