Real-time naive case fatality rates can reflect timeliness of case confirmation during pandemics

An objective law was observed that naive case fatality rates (CFRs) of a disease will decrease early and then gradually increase infinitely near the true CFR as time went on during an outbreak. The normal growth of naive CFR was an inherent character rather than indicating the disease was becoming m...

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Main Authors: Rui Qi, Cong Chen, Xiao-Bin Hu, Xue-Jie Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Infection and Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187603412030592X