The many estimates of the COVID-19 case fatality rate
Dimple D Rajgor
Meng Har Lee
Sophia Archuleta
Natasha Bagdasarian
Swee Chye Quek
Published:March 27, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30244-9
Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in December, a question at the forefront of many people's minds has been its mortality rate. Is the mortality rate of COVID-19 higher than that of influenza, but lower than that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)?