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 …
Various methodology, but many did include some adjustment for outcome censoring. Not all, certainly, but I'd say the majority
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I remember the Ferguson et al piece did, yes. What's the reported IFR in the Diamond Princess study you are relying on, though? It would be good to get a sense of how much it would change the results to change the assumptions on future mortality in the infected cohort...
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I used their estimate (after some feedback from the authors) of 0.6% (0.2-1.3) as it was the IFR estimated for the general population of China, corrected for age
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