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February 7, 2020Swiss Medical Weekly223 citationsOpen Access

2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): estimating the case fatality rate – a word of caution

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MBManuel BattegayRKRichard KüehlSTSarah Tschudin‐Sutter

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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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Battegay et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/696fc1faad5d837fc69c15achttps://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20203
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