{"id":40768,"date":"2020-03-12T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=40768"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:51:36","slug":"estimating-the-coronavirus-death-rate-cohen-explains-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/estimating-the-coronavirus-death-rate-cohen-explains-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Coronavirus Death Rate, Cohen Explains the Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30879\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/04\/MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/04\/MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201-300x200.jpg\" alt=\" MikeCohenNAMheadshotsJCL201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Myron Cohen, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/what-s-the-coronavirus-death-rate-here-s-why-it-s-hard-to-estimate\/19001443\/\">WRAL.com news story<\/a> says it will be a while before health officials can say with precision what the coronavirus death rate is, recognizing that the final rate could be higher or lower than the 3.4 percent the WHO reported March 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/myron-cohen-md\/\">Myron Cohen, MD,<\/a> the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology and associate vice chancellor for Global Health and Medical Affairs, says the estimates will take on real meaning in the next few months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/what-s-the-coronavirus-death-rate-here-s-why-it-s-hard-to-estimate\/19001443\/\">In the article<\/a>, Cohen, who is also director of the Institute for Global Health &amp; Infectious Diseases, explains that the case fatality rate measures only &#8220;death in discovered or recognized cases.&#8221;\u00a0 It does not consider the people who fell ill but didn\u2019t tell anyone. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/what-s-the-coronavirus-death-rate-here-s-why-it-s-hard-to-estimate\/19001443\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WRAL.com news story says it will be a while before health officials can say with precision what the coronavirus death rate is, recognizing that the final rate could be higher or lower than the 3.4 percent the WHO reported March 3. 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