While the MERS outbreak in Saudi Arabia has been winding down, I’ve been retroactively adding newly announced deaths to previously reported cases. (Given the ~15 day lag time between onset of symptoms and death, I expect that there’ll be more deaths to add to the tally in the days ahead.)
Recently, I was able to match the vast majority of deaths announced thus far to their respective database case entries, giving us a clearer picture of what case fatality rate has really looked like in recent weeks. As of today – May 27th – only 5 deaths remain unmatched, all from the KSA. It’s certainly possible that I’ve mismatched some of these retroactively-added deaths, despite stringent triangulation using age, gender, location, and (more recently) reporting date data. This said, I feel confident enough in the data as they stand today to share an up-to-date “redo” of the comorbidity/mortality relative risk…
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