Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2
Objectives Case fatality rates (CFR) and recovery rates are important readouts during epidemics and pandemics. In this article, an international analysis was performed on the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods Data were retrieved from accurate databases according to the us...
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| description | Objectives Case fatality rates (CFR) and recovery rates are important readouts during epidemics and pandemics. In this article, an international analysis was performed on the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods Data were retrieved from accurate databases according to the user’s guide of data sources for patient registries, CFR and recovery rates were calculated for each country. A comparison of CFR between countries with total cases ≥ 1,000 was observed for 12th and 23rd March. Results Italy’s CFR was the highest of all countries studied for both time points (12th March, 6.22% versus 23rd March, 9.26%). The data showed that even though Italy was the only European country reported on 12rd March, Spain and France had the highest CFR of 6.16 and 4.21%, respectively, on 23rd March, which was strikingly higher than the overall CFR of 3.61%. Conclusion Obtaining detailed and accurate medical history from COVID-19 patients, and analyzing CFR alongside the recovery rate, may enable the identification of the highest risk areas so that efficient medical care may be provided. This may lead to the development of point-of-care tools to help clinicians in stratifying patients based on possible requirements in the level of care, to increase the probabilities of survival from COVID-19 disease. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c8a728ba01dd404f87ccd5f060944fb12023-09-02T19:35:05ZengKorea Disease Control and Prevention AgencyOsong Public Health and Research Perspectives2210-90992210-91102020-04-01112748010.24171/j.phrp.2020.11.2.03548Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie0Fakher Rahim1 Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Health Research Institute, Research Center of Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IranObjectives Case fatality rates (CFR) and recovery rates are important readouts during epidemics and pandemics. In this article, an international analysis was performed on the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods Data were retrieved from accurate databases according to the user’s guide of data sources for patient registries, CFR and recovery rates were calculated for each country. A comparison of CFR between countries with total cases ≥ 1,000 was observed for 12th and 23rd March. Results Italy’s CFR was the highest of all countries studied for both time points (12th March, 6.22% versus 23rd March, 9.26%). The data showed that even though Italy was the only European country reported on 12rd March, Spain and France had the highest CFR of 6.16 and 4.21%, respectively, on 23rd March, which was strikingly higher than the overall CFR of 3.61%. Conclusion Obtaining detailed and accurate medical history from COVID-19 patients, and analyzing CFR alongside the recovery rate, may enable the identification of the highest risk areas so that efficient medical care may be provided. This may lead to the development of point-of-care tools to help clinicians in stratifying patients based on possible requirements in the level of care, to increase the probabilities of survival from COVID-19 disease.http://ophrp.org/upload/pdf/ophrp-11-74.pdfcoronaviruscovid-19case fatality rates |
| spellingShingle | Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie Fakher Rahim Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives coronavirus covid-19 case fatality rates |
| title | Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 |
| title_full | Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 |
| title_short | Cross-Country Comparison of Case Fatality Rates of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 |
| title_sort | cross country comparison of case fatality rates of covid 19 sars cov 2 |
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