Analysis of the time course of COVID-19 cases and deaths from countries with extensive testing allows accurate early estimates of the age specific symptomatic CFR values.

<h4>Background</h4>Knowing the true infected and symptomatic case fatality ratios (IFR and CFR) for COVID-19 is of high importance for epidemiological model projections. Early in the pandemic many locations had limited testing and reporting, so that standard methods for determining IFR a...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Jessica E Rothman, David Eidelberg, Samantha L Rothman, Theodore R Holford, Douglas L Rothman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253843