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Why case fatality ratios can be misleading: individual- and population-based mortality estimates and factors influencing them
Different ways of calculating mortality during epidemics have yielded very different results, particularly during the current COVID-19 pandemic. For example, the 'CFR' has been interchangeably called the case fatality ratio, case fatality rate, and case fatality risk, often without standard mathematical definitions. The most commonly used CFR is the case …