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cord-292462-zbjig3pt	Backhaus, Andreas	Common Pitfalls in the Interpretation of COVID-19 Data and Statistics	2020-06-07		.txt	text/plain	3163	158	58	Daily data releases on confi rmed COVID-19 cases and deaths provide information on the course of the pandemic. In its simplest form, the case fatality rate divides the total number of confi rmed deaths by COVID-19 by the to-Forum hence be lower than the IFR (and the CFR). Recall that the computation of the CFR only requires the total number of confi rmed deaths by COVID-19 and the total number of confi rmed cases of infections with SARS-CoV-2. Italy and South Korea are among those countries that have published demographic characteristics of their confi rmed cases comparatively early and consistently over the course of the pandemic. Consequently, the IFR divides the total number of confi rmed deaths by COVID-19 by the total number of infections with SARS-CoV-2.	./cache/cord-292462-zbjig3pt.txt	./txt/cord-292462-zbjig3pt.txt