Authors
Marcelo Freitas do Prado, Bianca Brandão de Paula Antunes, Leonardo dos Santos Lourenço Bastos, Igor Tona Peres, Amanda de Araújo Batista da Silva, Leila Figueiredo Dantas, Fernanda Araújo Baião, Paula Maçaira, Silvio Hamacher, Fernando Augusto Bozza
Publication date
2020/6/24
Journal
Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva
Volume
32
Pages
224-228
Publisher
Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira-AMIB
Description
Objective: To estimate the reporting rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases for Brazil as a whole and states.
Methods: We estimated the actual number of COVID-19 cases using the reported number of deaths in Brazil and each state, and the expected casefatality ratio from the World Health Organization. Brazil’s expected casefatality ratio was also adjusted by the population’s age pyramid. Therefore, the notification rate can be defined as the number of confirmed cases (notified by the Ministry of Health) divided by the number of expected cases (estimated from the number of deaths). Results: The reporting rate for COVID-19 in Brazil was estimated at 9.2%(95% CI 8.8%-9.5%), with all
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