COVID-19 DEATH RATE COULD BE BELOW 1%, RESEARCHERS SAY

摘要

The estimated death rate from COVID-19 is 0.66% when unconfirmed cases are taken into account, research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases (30 March 2020) suggests. The team studied data on 70,117 cases of COVID-19 in Ohina, as well as 689 international residents of Wuhan, China, who were repatriated to their home countries and tested for the virus by polymerase chain reaction. The overall fatality ratio for confirmed cases in Ohina was 1.38% (95% confidence interval [CI]) 1.23-1.53%), with substantially higher ratios in older age groups: up to 13.4% in those aged 80 years or older (95% C111.2-15.9%).