Estimating the case fatality rate of a disease during the course of an epidemic with an application to COVID-19 in Argentina

09/06/2021

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by   Agustín Alvarez, et al.

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We present an accurate estimator of the case fatality rate that can be computed during the course of an epidemic outbreak and we prove its asymptotic properties. We apply it to the real case of covid-19 in Argentina during 2020 and to simulated data and show its very good performance.