how infectious it is, and how serious it is once you have it. The first is roughly described by the R0 (basic reproduction rate), and the second by the case fatality rate.
This seems wrong. The metric of how likely you die when you are infected is the infection fatality rate. The case fatality rate is how likely you are to do once you are diagnosed with the virus and became a medical case.
This is true, and a mistake on my part (they don’t bother with IFR in medical school, likely because it’s not as relevant for day-to-day medicine as CFR). I’ll update the post to try to explain the difference. Thanks a lot.
This seems wrong. The metric of how likely you die when you are infected is the infection fatality rate. The case fatality rate is how likely you are to do once you are diagnosed with the virus and became a medical case.
This is true, and a mistake on my part (they don’t bother with IFR in medical school, likely because it’s not as relevant for day-to-day medicine as CFR). I’ll update the post to try to explain the difference. Thanks a lot.