Age and covid fatality

Q2 Social Sciences

Development Studies Research Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1080/21665095.2021.1967769

S. Subramanian

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT It is widely acknowledged that the distribution of Covid cases and that of Covid deaths by age constitute a factor that deserves to be taken into account in assessing and comparing quantitative indicators of Covid-related mortality. The single most widely employed measure of Covid mortality is the so-called Case Fatality Rate (CFR), which is just the ratio of Covid deaths to Covid cases. The CFR is essentially a measure of central tendency. The present note outlines a procedure, drawing on the standard literature on income inequality, for deriving a measure of Covid mortality which supplements information on average mortality with information on its dispersion across a population’s age cohorts.

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年龄和病死率

摘要人们普遍认为，新冠肺炎病例和新冠肺炎死亡病例的年龄分布是评估和比较新冠相关死亡率定量指标时值得考虑的因素。衡量新冠肺炎死亡率的唯一最广泛的指标是所谓的病例死亡率（CFR），它只是新冠肺炎死亡人数与新冠肺炎病例的比率。CFR本质上是衡量中心趋势的指标。本说明根据关于收入不平等的标准文献概述了一个程序，用于得出新冠肺炎死亡率的衡量标准，该程序用人口年龄组的平均死亡率信息补充了平均死亡率信息。

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Development Studies Research Social Sciences-Development

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3.20

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0.00%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

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