Unraveling the flaws of estimates of the infection fatality rate for COVID-19

Chen Shen; Derrick VanGennep; Alexander F Siegenfeld; Yaneer Bar-Yam

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa239

Unraveling the flaws of estimates of the infection fatality rate for COVID-19

J Travel Med. 2021 Feb 23;28(2):taaa239. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa239.

Authors

Chen Shen¹, Derrick VanGennep¹, Alexander F Siegenfeld^{1

2}, Yaneer Bar-Yam¹

Affiliations

¹ New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

The infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 is of importance for policymaking. We show that there are significant flaws in many studies estimating the IFR and used as references by public health authorities.

Keywords: COVID-19; Infection Fatality Rate.

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