Representative estimates of covid-19 infection fatality rates from three locations in India
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Author(s)
Cai, R
Novosad, P
Tandel, V
Asher, S
Malani, A
Type
preprint
Abstract
There are very few estimates of the age-specific infection fatality rate (IFR) of SARS-CoV-2 in low-and middle-income countries. India reports the second highest number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the world. We estimate age-specific IFR using data from seroprevalence surveys in Mumbai (population 12 million) and Karnataka (population 61 million), and a random sample of economically distressed migrants in Bihar with mortality followup. Among men aged
Date Issued
2021-01-06
Citation
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2021
Journal / Book Title
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Author(s). The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
Identifier
10.1101/2021.01.05.21249264