Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 19, 2020

Estimating the Case Fatality Risk of COVID-19 using Cases from Outside China

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  • Using data for symptomatic COVID-19 cases occurring outside of China and in countries with 20+ cases, researchers estimated the case fatality risk for COVID-19 cases outside of China to be about 1.4% (95% CI: 0.57%-3.22%)

Wilson et al. (Feb 18, 2020). Estimating the Case Fatality Risk of COVID-19 using Cases from Outside China. Pre-print downloaded Feb 18 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.15.20023499