Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Tracking virus-related deaths using publicly available data...

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Here's the cumulative case chart overlaid with the cumulative deaths and PFC. see the story behind the term PFC here, created by VDU to avoid issues around case fatality rate/ratio (CFR) which relies on knowing when cases have recovered.

I have two PFC values charted here. In black dots, is my curated list based on fatal cases (n=40; red dots) that have been announced publicly. 

In yellow are the numbers gleaned from media releases and the WHO - the latest number being 52 fatal COVID-19 outcomes. 

Somewhere towards the end of the initial COVID-19 outbreak in May, we stopped seeing reports from China that could link fatal cases with those COVID-19 cases they initially announced. If anyone knows of a complete public list of fatal COVID-19 outcomes that contains all 52 cases with age/sex/date of illness onset/date of death/province, I would be most grateful to be made aware of it.


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