Recent Bell Fellow Nikkil Sudharsanan, PhD, and Harvard Pop Center faculty member Till Bärnighausen, MD, PhD, ScD and their colleagues have published a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine that finds…
“Selective testing and identifying of older cases considerably warps estimates of the lethality of COVID-19 within populations and comparisons across countries.”
The findings suggest that in order to accurately compare how countries are able to care for patients with COVID-19 and better monitor the epidemic, it will be important to account for these age distortions when calculating the COVID-19 case fatality rate.