Article originally appeared on Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01738-2 Public-health researchers use the infection fatality rate to gauge how to respond to a new disease, but it’s tricky to calculate. One of the most crucial questions about an emerging infectious disease such as the new coronavirus is how deadly it is. After months of collecting data, scientists are getting closer to an answer. Researchers use a metric called infection fatality rate (IFR) to calculate how deadly a new disease is. It is the proportion of infected people who will die as a result,…
How deadly is the coronavirus? Scientists are close to an answer (0.5%-1.0%)
