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I'm confused, I thought that what the paper defines as Mortality Rate is called Case Fatality Rate. Could someone explain to me what the difference is?
by jonathanstrange 7y ago
I'm confused, I thought that what the paper defines as Mortality Rate is called Case Fatality Rate. Could someone explain to me what the difference is?
- AstralStorm 7y agoMortality Rate is number of deaths divided by total infected count estimate. E.g. it includes self reported cases and estimated using infection rates. (R0 mostly.) It does not exist when mode of infection is not entirely clear it when number of cases are low. Case Fatality Rate is number of deaths divided by number of confirmed cases, which are usually hospitalizations. Mortality Rate is usually much lower than Case Fatality Rate.
- jonathanstrange 7y agoThanks a lot! So if the paper is correct and the mortality is 4.8%, then the CFR would actually expected to be higher. I'm kind of disturbed by this because I've seen numbers for CFRs between 2%-3%, which is already quite high. These should be higher then, right?