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Adjusting for delay from confirmation to death, we estimated case and infection fatality ratios (CFR, IFR) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the Diamond Princess ship as 2.6% (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.89–6.7) and 1.3% (95% CI: 0.38–3.6), respectively. Comparing deaths on board with expected deaths based on naive CFR estimates from China, we estimated CFR and IFR in China to be 1.2% (95% CI: 0.3–2.7) and 0.6% (95% CI: 0.2–1.3), respectively.

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Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, February 2020
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Timothy+W+Russell&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Russell Timothy W</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Joel+Hellewell&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Hellewell Joel</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Christopher+I+Jarvis&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Jarvis Christopher I</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Kevin+van+Zandvoort&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">van Zandvoort Kevin</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Sam+Abbott&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Abbott Sam</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Ruwan+Ratnayake&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Ratnayake Ruwan</a>, <a href="/search?value1=CMMID+COVID-19+working+group&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">CMMID COVID-19 working group</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Stefan+Flasche&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Flasche Stefan</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Rosalind+M+Eggo&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Eggo Rosalind M</a>, <a href="/search?value1=W+John+Edmunds&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Edmunds W John</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Adam+J+Kucharski&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Kucharski Adam J</a></span>. Estimating the infection and case fatality ratio for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using age-adjusted data from the outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, February 2020. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2020;25(12):pii=2000256. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 06 Mar 2020;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 26 Mar 2020 </span> </p>
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