COVID-19 infection fatality rate: a new approach

Autor:	M S Seshadri, C R Ranganathan
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Geography Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Emergency medicine Case fatality rate medicine
Zdroj:	International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health. 7:3679
ISSN:	2394-6040 2394-6032
Popis:	Infection fatality rate (IFR) in COVID 19 is a useful parameter for health-care planning during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The sensitivity of the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test, the rate of mortality reporting (MRR) in a country and the number of RT-PCR tests done per million population are the factors that influence the true infection fatality rate. In this article we present a ready reckoner for estimating the infection fatality rate for COVID-19, for a given RT PCR test sensitivity and mortality reporting rate for use in middle and low-income countries with resource constraints. We further demonstrate the inverse relationship between infection fatality rate and the number of tests done.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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