Estimating the case fatality ratio of the COVID-19 epidemic in China
Xing Wang, Zihui Ma, Yi Ning, Chen Chen, Rujin Chen, Qiwen Chen, Heng Zhang, Chunming Li, Yan He, Tao Wang, Cheng Tong, Junqing Wu, Yuyan Li, Handong Ma, Shaodian Zhang, Hongxin Zhao
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023630
Abstract
Background: Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan city and rapidly spread throughout China since late December 2019. Crude case fatality ratio (CFR) with dividing the number of known deaths by the number of confirmed cases does not represent the true CFR and might be off by orders of magnitude. We aim to provide a precise estimate of the CFR of COVID-19 using statistical models at the early stage of the epidemic.
*注,本文为预印本论文手稿,是未经同行评审的初步报告,其观点仅供科研同行交流,并不是结论性内容,请使用者谨慎使用.