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Computing the Prevalence and Severity of an Epidemic Using only the Distribution of Simple Tests for Infection Confirmation

2021-05-07

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Epidemics and Pandemics such as COVID-19 require estimating total infection prevalence. Accurate estimates support better monitoring, evaluation of proximity to herd immunity, estimation of infection fatality rates (IFRs), and assessment of risks due to infection by asymptomatic individuals, especially in developing countries, which lack population-wide serological testing. We suggest a method for estimating the i...

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Literature Corpus work: 0b6ae514-1b5f-5447-af3a-4fef127bb1fb
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.04.21256588

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