Re:Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with...
by jsinai on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @02:36AM
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What is CFR?
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Re:Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with...
by arcticbull on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @02:40AM
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"In epidemiology, a case fatality rate (CFR) — sometimes called case fatality risk — is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of people diagnosed with the disease for a certain period of time."
As compared to the IFR: "The term infection fatality rate (IFR) also applies to infectious disease outbreaks, and represents the proportion of deaths among all the infected individuals. It is closely related to the CFR, but attempts to additionally account for all asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections." [1]
One's the risk that given you show up at a hospital, you die. The other is the risk given that you get infected, you die.