underreporting: Underreporting data

In HopkinsIDD/covidImportation: Estimating the Number of Imported COVID-19 Cases

Description

A dataset containing estimates for the reporting rate for each country based on their CFR from https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/severity/global_cfr_estimates.html

Usage

data(underreporting)

Format

A data frame with 6 variables:

• country country name

• total_cases number of reported cases

• total_deaths number of reported deaths

• underreporting_estimate estimate of reporting rate using mean CFR from Verity et al.

• lower estimate of reporting rate using upper bound CFR from Verity et al.

• upper estimate of reporting rate using lower bound CFR from Verity et al.

References

Russell, T.W. et al. Using a delay-adjusted case fatality ratio to estimate under-reporting. CMMID Repository 2020.

Verity R, Okell LC, Dorigatti I et al. Estimates of the severity of covid-19 disease. medRxiv 2020.

HopkinsIDD/covidImportation documentation built on Sept. 14, 2020, 2:43 p.m.