Abstract
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.
Keywords: COVID-19; Case fatality ratio; asymptomatic; coronavirus; cruise ship; infection fatality ratio; outbreak; severity.
MeSH terms
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Betacoronavirus
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 Testing
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods*
- Contact Tracing
- Coronavirus / genetics
- Coronavirus / isolation & purification*
- Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
- Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
- Coronavirus Infections / transmission
- Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mortality
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
- Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*
- Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
- Point-of-Care Systems
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Risk Factors
- SARS-CoV-2
- Ships*
- Travel*
- Young Adult