{"id":1741,"date":"2020-10-22T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:59:19","slug":"the-confounded-crude-case-fatality-rates-cfr-for-covid-19-hide-more-than-they-reveal-a-comparison-of-age-specific-and-age-adjusted-cfrs-between-seven-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/22\/the-confounded-crude-case-fatality-rates-cfr-for-covid-19-hide-more-than-they-reveal-a-comparison-of-age-specific-and-age-adjusted-cfrs-between-seven-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Confounded Crude Case-Fatality Rates (CFR) for COVID-19 Hide More than They Reveal\u2014a Comparison of Age-Specific and Age-Adjusted CFRs between Seven Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A comparative analysis of the COVID-19 case-fatality rates (CFR) of seven countries suggests that age structure of cases could account for the wide variation of CFRs among countries. The crude country-level CFRs ranged from 0.82% (Israel) to 14.2% (Italy), resulting in a highest to lowest crude CFR ratio of 17.3. Meanwhile, the ratio of lowest to highest age-adjusted ratio is 2.57.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Green et al. (Oct 21, 2020). The Confounded Crude Case-Fatality Rates (CFR) for COVID-19 Hide More than They Reveal\u2014a Comparison of Age-Specific and Age-Adjusted CFRs between Seven Countries. PLOS ONE. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0241031\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0241031<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparative analysis of the COVID-19 case-fatality rates (CFR) of seven countries suggests that age structure of cases could account for the wide variation of CFRs among countries. The crude country-level CFRs ranged from 0.82% (Israel) to 14.2% (Italy), resulting in a highest to lowest crude CFR ratio of 17.3. Meanwhile, the ratio of lowest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/22\/the-confounded-crude-case-fatality-rates-cfr-for-covid-19-hide-more-than-they-reveal-a-comparison-of-age-specific-and-age-adjusted-cfrs-between-seven-countries\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mortality","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}