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Issue 2020 October 03

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  • ESTIMATING THE COVID19 MORTALITY RATE

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    ESTIMATING THE COVID19 MORTALITY RATE

    Patrick J. ByrneSep 23, 202010 min read

    by Patrick J. Byrne Epidemiologists study the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases. They find a good measure of covid19 deaths is to count “excess deaths”: that is the number of deaths this year compared with the average of deaths over the same period (say, January to August) in the past four years. While “excess deaths” is not a perfect measure, it…