A British government science panel has claimed that a coronavirus variant with a 35% fatality rate – akin to that seen in the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) – could emerge, and that vaccine booster doses may be needed. Areportissued on Friday by the Scientific Advisory Group for ...
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GENEVA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The fatality rate of COVID-19 is estimated to be 10 times higher than influenza, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said here on Thursday. Speaking at a Mission briefing on COVID-19 from Geneva, the WHO chief said that...
Corrigendum to “The determinants of COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) in the Italian regions and provinces: An analysis of environmental, demographic, and healthcare factors” [Sci. Total Environ. 755 (part 1) (2021), 142523] Science of The Total Environment, Volume 760, 15 March 2021, ...
Poorer and more ethnically diverse areas including Newham, Brent, Hackney, Haringey and Tower Hamlets all had age-standardized fatality rates above 100 per 100,000 residents. By contrast, the death rate in more prosperous areas like Kingston upon Thames was 42.9, while in Richmond the death rate...
According to the COVID-19 Genomic UK Consortium (COG-U.K.) [36], thousands of COVID-19 mutations are being detected, but few of them are likely to threaten public health [37,38,39]. Some studies shows that most viruses’ mutations are not harmful and could not cause any severe ...
(VOC) B.1.1.7, which first emerged in Kent in September.1 Two unpublished papers, one from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and one from Imperial College London,23 reported an increased case fatality rate in people with s-gene target failure (SGTF, a proxy for variant ...
We now study the accuracy of subject beliefs concerning the infectiousness (R0) and Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of COVID-19. As shown in Fig.2, we find that the overwhelming majority of subject estimates are outside of the bounds of expert consensus.Footnote26On average, participants believe ...
During the first two months of the epidemic, the crude case fatality rate (CFR), the number of cumulative deaths over the number of cumulative cases, in Chile (1.2%) remained well below the global average (6.5%) [4, 16]. Because initial COVID-19 cases in Chile occurred among relatively...
Determine age-specific infection fatality rates for COVID-19 to inform public health policies and communications that help protect vulnerable age groups. S