Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

April 30, 2020

A deeper look at COVID-19 CFR: health care impact and roots of discrepancy

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  • This modeling study quantifies the impact of intensive care on critical cases by comparing the case fatality among those who did and did not receive intensive care. Findings show that the chance of survival among non-ICU receivers is less than half of ICU receivers (~24% vs ~60%).

Dehkordi et al. (Apr 30, 2020).  A deeper look at COVID-19 CFR: health care impact and roots of discrepancy. Pre-print downloaded Apr 30 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.22.20071498