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- An estimate of the risk of mortality from a contagious disease. The CFR is calculated by dividing the number of deaths caused by a disease by the number of cases of that disease in a given time period. The CFR is time and location-dependent, and many different factors can influence the CFR, such as speed of diagnosis of cases, health system capacity, age and other demographic characteristics, among others. For COVID-19, estimates of the CFR have varied; in China, CFR estimates by province have ranged from <1% to 5.8%. Kaiser Family Foundation
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- When data were stratified by age group, the case-fatality rate in Italy and China appear very similar for age groups 0 to 69 years. - JAMA Network
 by - This crude CFR is high: for comparison, the CFR for seasonal influenza is 0.1%. - Virology blog by
- The data indicated that the CFR was elevated among COVID-19 patients with preexisting comorbid conditions, specifically, cardiovascular disease (CFR, 10.5%), diabetes (7.3%), chronic respiratory disease (6.3%), hypertension (6%), and cancer (5.6%). - The Hospitalist by
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- Liczba zgonów z powodu choroby w określonym czasie podzielona przez liczbę stwierdzonych przypadków tej choroby w tym samym okresie czasu x 100% Podstawy Epidemiologii - by Patrycja Amanowicz
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- Zgodnie z ich informacjami na 28 lutego, a więc 39. dzień od publikacji pierwszego opracowania, zarażonych na świecie było 82,7 tys. osób. Śmierć w wyniku zachorowania na COVID-19 poniosło ponad 2,8 tys. pacjentów. Wskaźnik śmiertelności, wynikający z tych danych, wyniósł więc 3,4 procent. - TVN24 by Patrycja Amanowicz
- Wskaźnik śmiertelności to liczba zgonów z całkowitej liczby potwierdzonych przypadków w poszczególnych krajach. - Polska Times by Patrycja Amanowicz
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