Using excess deaths and testing statistics to determine COVID-19 mortalities
Using excess deaths and testing statistics to determine COVID-19 mortalities
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Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media
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English
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Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media
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Factors such as varied definitions of mortality, uncertainty in disease prevalence, and biased sampling complicate the quantification of fatality during an epidemic. Regardless of the employed fatality measure, the infected population and the number of infection-caused deaths need to be consistently estimated for comparing mortality across regions....
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Using excess deaths and testing statistics to determine COVID-19 mortalities
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8127858
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8127858
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0393-2990
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1573-7284
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10.1007/s10654-021-00748-2
