期刊
PHYSICAL BIOLOGY
卷 17, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ab9e59
关键词
COVID-19; case fatality ratio; mortality; epidemic; survival probability; SIR model
资金
- SNF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship on 'multispecies interacting stochastic systems in biology'
- Army Research Office [W911NF-18-1-0345]
- NIH [R01HL146552]
- National Science Foundation [DMS-1814364]
Different ways of calculating mortality during epidemics have yielded very different results, particularly during the current COVID-19 pandemic. For example, the 'CFR' has been interchangeably called the case fatality ratio, case fatality rate, and case fatality risk, often without standard mathematical definitions. The most commonly used CFR is thecase fatality ratio, typically constructed using the estimated number of deaths to date divided by the estimated total number of confirmed infected cases to date. How does this CFR relate to an infected individual's probability of death? To explore such issues, we formulate both a survival probability model and an associated infection duration-dependent SIR model to define individual- and population-based estimates of dynamic mortality measures to show that neither of these are directly represented by the case fatality ratio. The key parameters that affect the dynamics of different mortality estimates are the incubation period and the time individuals were infected before confirmation of infection. Using data on the recent SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, we estimate and compare the different dynamic mortality estimates and highlight their differences. Informed by our modeling, we propose more systematic methods to determine mortality during epidemic outbreaks and discuss sensitivity to confounding effects and uncertainties in the data arising from, e.g., undertesting and heterogeneous populations.
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