Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 27, 2020

Case fatality rate of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in China

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  • Qi et al. propose calculating case fatality risk by dividing the number of known deaths by the number of confirmed cases “T” days before, where “T” is an average time period from case confirmation to death. This approach could be used for diseases to calculate CFR before a pandemic ends.

Qi et al (Feb 26, 2020): Case fatality rate of novel coronavirus disease 2019 in China. Pre-print downloaded Feb 27 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.26.20028076