Explaining among-country variation in COVID-19 case fatality rate

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 18909
• Main Authors: Sorci, Gabriele, Faivre, Bruno, Morand, Serge
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 03.11.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/326/421; 692/699/255/2514; Canada; Comorbidity; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - mortality; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Democracy; Demography; Demography - statistics & numerical data; Economic factors; Economics; Emerging diseases; Epidemics; Europe; Fatalities; Human health and pathology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Infectious diseases; Life Sciences; Mortality; Mortality - trends; multidisciplinary; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - mortality; Political Systems - statistics & numerical data; Politics; Respiratory diseases; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomics; United States; Canada; United States; Europe

While the epidemic of SARS-CoV-2 has spread worldwide, there is much concern over the mortality rate that the infection induces. Available data suggest that COVID-19 case fatality rate had varied temporally (as the epidemic has progressed) and spatially (among countries). Here, we attempted to ident...