Case fatality risk of the first pandemic wave of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

• Published in: Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Main Authors: Deng, Xiaowei, Yang, Juan, Wang, Wei, Wang, Xiling, Zhou, Jiaxin, Chen, Zhiyuan, Li, Jing, Chen, Yinzi, Yan, Han, Zhang, Juanjuan, Zhang, Yongli, Wang, Yan, Qiu, Qi, Gong, Hui, Wei, Xianglin, Wang, Lili, Sun, Kaiyuan, Wu, Peng, Ajelli, Marco, Cowling, Benjamin J, Viboud, Cecile, Yu, Hongjie
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 15.05.2020
• Subjects: Major; Novel coronavirus diseases 2019; case fatality risk; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; China

To assess the case fatality risk (CFR) of COVID-19 in mainland China, stratified by region and clinical category, and estimate key time-to-event intervals. We collected individual information and aggregated data on COVID-19 cases from publicly available official sources from December 29, 2019 to Apr...