2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): estimating the case fatality rate - a word of caution

Swiss Med Wkly. 2020 Feb 7:150:w20203. doi: 10.4414/smw.2020.20203. eCollection 2020 Jan 27.

Authors

Manuel Battegay¹, Richard Kuehl¹, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter¹, Hans H Hirsch², Andreas F Widmer¹, Richard A Neher³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
² Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Clinical Virology, Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Transplantation and Clinical Virology, Department Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland.
³ Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland.

PMID: 32031234
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2020.20203

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
Humans
Mortality / trends
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*