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. 2020 Jun 19;35(5):1270–1273. doi: 10.1002/hpm.3006

TABLE 1.

Actual and predicted COVID‐19 infected patients

Laboratory confirmed cases a Mean number of predicted total infected cases b
Country Total infected cases Number of fatalities (case fatality rate) Total cases (% of the total population) Number of fatalities (case fatality rate)
Spain 177 633 18 579 (10.5%) 7 013 216 (15%) 18 579 (0.26%)
Italy 165 155 21 647 (13.1%) 5 925 258 (9.8%) 21 647 (0.37%)
France 106 206 17 167 (16.2%) 1 958 205 (3%) 17 167 (0.88%)
UK 98 476 12 868 (13.1%) 1 832 922 (2.7%) 12 868 (0.7%)
Germany 130 450 3569 (2.7%) 586 487 (0.7%) 3569 (0.61%)
a

The number of laboratory confirmed cases was obtained from ECDC report on April 16, 2020.

b

Posterior predictions estimate on March 28th based on the study of Ferguson et al. (2020). 12