Fatality / Mortality Calculations in an Outbreak There are a number of different types of rates, risks, ratios important in an outbreak: - Case fatality rate (CFR) = # of deaths from a certain disease / # of people diagnosed with disease (for a certain period of time) - Infection-fatality risk (IFR) = # of deaths in cases with evidence of infection / # of cases with evidence of infection - Hospital fatality risk (HFR) = # of deaths in cases hospitalized for medical need / # cases hospitalized for medical need - Symptomatic case fatality risk (sCFR) = # of deaths in cases with symptoms / # of cases with symptoms Dr. Melvin Sanicas @Vaccinologist #Fatality #MortalityRate #Calculations #Outbreak #Calculating #InfectiousDiseases #Epidemiology #Novel #Coronavirus
