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The CFR rate for the disease rather than infectius agent is not really useful for anything besides inciting panic. Consider the case where a virus only shows sy
by poizan42 7y ago
The CFR rate for the disease rather than infectius agent is not really useful for anything besides inciting panic. Consider the case where a virus only shows symptoms in 0.1% of case, but is 100% fatal when it does. You could report this as NEW EPIDEMIC 100% FATAL, WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!! but that hardly gives a realistic picture.
- wbhart 7y ago"We are all gonna die" is a statement about the mortality rate, not the case fatality rate. This paper does not deal with the mortality rate.