It has been recognised since the beginning of the pandemic that attempting to estimate the IFR (the infection fatality rate) of COVID-19 by simply dividing the number of deaths by the number of infected persons may not be an accurate method. One reason is that when someone dies with COVID-19, it is not always possible to say whether he died of the disease or merely with the disease.
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Quantifying COVID-19’s lethality in England
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It has been recognised since the beginning of the pandemic that attempting to estimate the IFR (the infection fatality rate) of COVID-19 by simply dividing the number of deaths by the number of infected persons may not be an accurate method. One reason is that when someone dies with COVID-19, it is not always possible to say whether he died of the disease or merely with the disease.