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editorial . 2020 May 30:ciaa639. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa639
Towards a better case fatality estimate for SARS-CoV-2 during the early phase of the United States outbreak
Jeremy Samuel Faust
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Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD MS
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Public Health, Boston MA, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Public Health, Boston MA, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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Corresponding author: jsfaust@gmail.com, 530-867-2263
Received 2020 May 18.
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See "Unmasking the Actual COVID-19 Case Count" in volume 71 on page 2949.
See commentary "Unmasking the Actual COVID-19 Case Count" in volume 71 on page 2949.