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Author: Julien Riou; Anthony Hauser; Michel J Counotte; Christian L Althaus
Title: Adjusted age-specific case fatality ratio during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hubei, China, January and February 2020
  • Document date: 2020_3_6
  • ID: mrsya6wz_31
    Snippet: Second, we assume that, as a result of more severe symptoms at older ages, all cases in symptomatic individuals aged 80 years were reported. We cannot confirm this, but the high risk of death from Covid-19 amongst the elderly was reported very early on [3] , so we believe that most old people with symptoms sought care. If this assumption is wrong, mortality in our study would be overestimated. Sensitivity analyses show a linear relation between t.....
    Document: Second, we assume that, as a result of more severe symptoms at older ages, all cases in symptomatic individuals aged 80 years were reported. We cannot confirm this, but the high risk of death from Covid-19 amongst the elderly was reported very early on [3] , so we believe that most old people with symptoms sought care. If this assumption is wrong, mortality in our study would be overestimated. Sensitivity analyses show a linear relation between the ascertainment proportion for the people aged 80 years and older and mortality (S1 Text, section 5).

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