This paper assesses the age specificity of the infection fatality rate (IFR) for COVID-19. Our
benchmark meta-regression synthesizes the age-specific IFRs from four recent large-scale …

Determine age-specific infection fatality rates for COVID-19 to inform public health policies
and communications that help protect vulnerable age groups. Studies of COVID-19 …

This mixed design synthesis aimed to estimate the infection fatality rate (IFR) of Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in community-dwelling elderly populations and other age groups …

Abstract Background The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been spreading
globally for months, yet the infection fatality ratio of the disease is still uncertain. This is partly …

Background The infection fatality rate (IFR) of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is
one of the most discussed figures in the context of this pandemic. In contrast to the case …

The infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 among non-elderly people in the absence of
vaccination or prior infection is important to estimate accurately, since 94% of the global …

Abstract Background and Objectives To date, more than 1,000,000 confirmed cases and
65,000 deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported globally …

An important unknown during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has
been the infection fatality rate (IFR). This differs from the case fatality rate (CFR) as an …

Objective To estimate the range of the age-and sex-specific infection fatality risk (IFR) for
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) based on confirmed …

We perform a counterfactual time series analysis on 2020 mortality data from towns in Italy
using data from the previous five years as control. We find an excess mortality that is …