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理解新冠病例死亡率

Towards Understanding the COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth(马萨诸塞大学达特茅斯分校);Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(上海财经大学)

Donghui Yan, Aiyou Chen, Buqing Yang

AI总结:

本文通过分析不同时间点的新冠病例死亡率,揭示了年龄和GDP对死亡率的影响变化,发现年龄效应在不同国家和时间基本不变,而GDP的作用随疫情波次变化。

摘要:

新冠病毒的重要参数是病例死亡率(CFR)。它已被应用于广泛领域,包括感染严重程度的衡量、感染病例数的估计、风险评估等。然而,对于CFR的几个方面仍存在理解不足,包括对CFR重要的人口因素、不同国家CFR的明显差异以及年龄效应如何发挥作用。我们分析了2020年7月6日和12月28日两个不同时间点的CFR,一个是第一波疫情,另一个是第二波疫情。我们考虑了两个重要的人口协变量,年龄和GDP作为公共健康质量和数量的代理。广泛的探索性数据分析导致了一些有趣的发现。首先,不同年龄组中存在明显的指数年龄效应,更重要的是,指数在不同国家和时间在疫情期间几乎不变。其次,年龄和GDP的作用略显意外:在第一波期间,年龄比GDP更重要,而在第二波期间,它们的作用发生了变化,这可能部分由公共健康和医学研究的质量和数量的延迟因素解释。

英文摘要:

An important parameter for COVID-19 is the case fatality rate (CFR). It has been applied to wide applications, including the measure of the severity of the infection, the estimation of the number of infected cases, risk assessment etc. However, there remains a lack of understanding on several aspects of CFR, including population factors that are important to CFR, the apparent discrepancy of CFRs in different countries, and how the age effect comes into play. We analyze the CFRs at two different time snapshots, July 6 and Dec 28, 2020, with one during the first wave and the other a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider two important population covariates, age and GDP as a proxy for the quality and abundance of public health. Extensive exploratory data analysis leads to some interesting findings. First, there is a clear exponential age effect among different age groups, and, more importantly, the exponential index is almost invariant across countries and time in the pandemic. Second, the roles played by the age and GDP are a little surprising: during the first wave, age is a more significant factor than GDP, while their roles have switched during the second wave of the pandemic, which may be partially explained by the delay in time for the quality and abundance of public health and medical research to factor in.

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