Estimation of the true infection rate and infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 in each country

• Main Authors: Masahiro Sonoo (Author), Takamichi Kanbayashi (Author), Takayoshi Shimohata (Author), Masahito Kobayashi (Author), Masashi Idogawa (Author), Hideyuki Hayashi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The True Infection Rate (TIR) in the whole population of each country and the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are unknown although they are important parameters. We devised a simple method to infer TIR and IFR based on the open data. The prevalence rate of the P...