According to a new analysis, the fatality rate from COVID-19 may not as high as experts initially thought -- but the infection is still much deadlier than the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, and the risk rises sharply with age, the researchers say.
Mar. 31, 2020 -- The fatality rate from COVID-19 is not as high as experts have reported, according to a new analysis published Monday influ pandemic, and the risk rises sharply with age, the researchers say.
Researchers from Imperial College London and other institutions produced the new estimates from an analysis of 70,117 laboratory-confirmed and clinically-diagnosed cases in mainland China, along with 689 positive cases diagnosed among people evacuated from Wuhan, China, on repatriation flights.began in December, many estimates of the fatality rate have been calculated and reported. The CDC, World Health Organization, and others have reported rates of 3.
"Even though younger people clearly do better in terms of recovering, their rates of hospitalization are notable since so many of them were infected," she says. Although they were likely discharged and recovered, they contributed to a significantThe estimates are needed to provide realistic planning for the other hard-hit countries, Marrazzo says.the new coronavirus
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