2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): estimating the case fatality rate – a word of caution
Manuel Battegay(University Hospital of Basel), Richard Küehl(University Hospital of Basel), Sarah Tschudin‐Sutter(University Hospital of Basel), Hans H. Hirsch(University of Basel), Andreas F. Widmer(University Hospital of Basel), Richard A. Neher(University of Basel)
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Abstract
It is tempting to estimate the case fatality rate by dividing the number of known deaths by the number of confirmed cases. The resulting number, however, does not represent the true case fatality rate and might be off by orders of magnitude.
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