What is the 'true' infection-fatality rate of #COVID19?
We don't know. But I spent my weekend doing a systematic review/meta-analysis to get a reasonable estimatehttps://medium.com/@gidmk/what-is-the-infection-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-7f58f7c90410 …
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The overall figure, based on 13 published estimates from a bunch of different places, is 0.79% (0.53-1.05%), which is actually a bit higher than I was expecting
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Note: this is very much a LIVING DOCUMENT I may have made mistakes. I probably have. Point them out and let's work on better estimates together
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And thanks to
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Also, worth noting that this isn't a brilliant estimate because there aren't that many studies and they are VERY heterogeneous Ideally I'd like to stratify by age and region, but that's gonna take more data!
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Replying to @GidMK
Why not publish in a "scientific" journal, e.g. medRxiv or bioRxiv?
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No particular reason. Might do that today
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