posted on 2021-08-18, 17:24authored byJessica E. Rothman, David Eidelberg, Samantha L. Rothman, Theodore R. Holford, Douglas L. Rothman
Shown below are plots of the reported closed case CFRcrude(t) curve and reported CFRcrude(t) curve for Austria, Australia, Iceland, Israel, New Zealand, and South Korea. The dashed gray line is the value which the closed case CFR(t) has converged to. As for Germany (Fig 1), it is seen that the reported closed case CFR(t) curve converges to a near constant value before the CFRcrude(t) curve. We found (Fig 2, S2 Fig), that for all countries we examined that the converged value of the closed case CFR was close to the optimum for predicting the CFRcrude(t) curve, consistent with it being a good approximation of the true corrected CFR for each country.