Estimating the Fraction of Unreported Infections in Epidemics with a Known Epicenter : An Application to COVID-19
We develop an analytically tractable method to estimate the fraction of unreported infections in epidemics with a known epicenter and estimate the number of unreported COVID-19 infections in the US during the first half of March 2020. Our method utilizes the covariation in initial reported infections across US regions and the number of travelers to these regions from the epicenter, along with the results of an early randomized testing study in Iceland. Using our estimates of the number of unreported infections, which are substantially larger than the number of reported infections, we also provide estimates for the infection fatality rate using data on reported COVID-19 fatalities from U.S. counties.
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[2020] |
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S.l.: SSRN ; 2020 |
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University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper - No. 2020-37 |
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Englisch |
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Beteiligte Personen: |
Hortaçsu, Ali [VerfasserIn] |
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 25, 2020 erstellt |
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1 Online-Ressource (40 p) |
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10.2139/ssrn.3574697 |
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