Manuel Battegay, Richard Kuehl, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter et al.

Swiss Medical Weekly, vol. 150, , 2020

10.4414/smw.2020.20203

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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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