{"id":4714,"date":"2020-02-27T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:12:38","slug":"communicating-the-risk-of-death-from-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/27\/communicating-the-risk-of-death-from-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating the Risk of Death from Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kobayashi et al. reviewed key epidemiological problems with using case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR) to assess severity of COVID-19. They concluded that division of the cumulative number of deaths by that of cases should be adjusted by the delay in time from illness onset to reporting. They caution that assessing only confirmed cases among all infections offers limited insight into the severity among all infected individuals, and the IFR are reduced by a shorter virus detection window and lower RT-PCR sensitivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kobayashi et al (Feb 21, 2020).<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Communicating the Risk of Death from Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">J Clin Med. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm9020580\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm9020580<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobayashi et al. reviewed key epidemiological problems with using case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR) to assess severity of COVID-19. They concluded that division of the cumulative number of deaths by that of cases should be adjusted by the delay in time from illness onset to reporting. They caution that assessing only&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/27\/communicating-the-risk-of-death-from-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}