Open AccessDiagnosis and Management of COVID-19 Disease
Author(s) -
Shazia Jamil,
Nicholas M. Mark,
Graham Carlos,
Charles S. Dela Cruz,
Jane E. Gross,
Susan Pasnick
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.272
H-Index - 374
eISSN - 1535-4970
pISSN - 1073-449X
DOI - 10.1164/rccm.2020c1
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , disease management , intensive care medicine , betacoronavirus , coronavirus infections , medline , disease , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , parkinson's disease , political science , law
Epidemiology Characteristics such as the attack rate (% of individuals in an at-risk population who acquire the infection), R0 (R naught, the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection), and case fatality rate (CFR, % of infected individuals who die) are contextual. That is, they depend on factors such as testing rate, population density, and control strategies that vary from location to location. These factors may also change over time. Table 1 summarizes reported epidemiologic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2.9
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