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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by Retric on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:34PM (#22882041)
Mortality rate is population and cause specific. So CFR is a mortality rate, though different than the overall diseases mortality rate.

That said, your definition is also in common usage and less ambiguous.

Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by w0utert on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:00PM (#22882322)
I think it’s fair to assume most people are mostly interested in statistics that give an indication of the likelihood of dying from a Covid-19 infection, which means you would have to look at the infection mortality rate and not the CFR. So in that sense I think it actually would be somewhat comforting if if it turns out many more people have already been infected than previously assumed. But just to be clear, I don’t want to pretend anyone can reliably claim this considering we still don’t have enough data to create models that can be used to approximate infection rates.