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SUBMITTER: Wu JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7094929 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Joseph T JT Leung Kathy K Bushman Mary M Kishore Nishant N Niehus Rene R de Salazar Pablo M PM Cowling Benjamin J BJ Lipsitch Marc M Leung Gabriel M GM
Nature medicine 20200319 4
As of 29 February 2020 there were 79,394 confirmed cases and 2,838 deaths from COVID-19 in mainland China. Of these, 48,557 cases and 2,169 deaths occurred in the epicenter, Wuhan. A key public health priority during the emergence of a novel pathogen is estimating clinical severity, which requires properly adjusting for the case ascertainment rate and the delay between symptoms onset and death. Using public and published information, we estimate that the overall symptomatic case fatality risk (t ...[more]