Serology-informed estimates of SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality risk in Geneva, Switzerland

The infection fatality risk (IFR) is the average number of deaths per infection by a pathogen and is key to characterising the severity of infection across the population and for specific demographic groups. To date, few empirical estimates of the IFR for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been published owing to challenges in measuring infection rates.1Russell TW Hellewell J Jarvis CI et al.Estimating the...