Unmasking the Actual COVID-19 Case Count.

Kou, Samuel C; Yang, Shihao; Chang, Chia-Jung; Ho, Teck-Hua; Graver, Lisa · Clin Infect Dis · 2020

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Abstract

This report presents a novel approach to estimate the total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States, including undocumented infections, by combining the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza-like illness surveillance data with aggregated prescription data. We estimated that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases in the United States by 4 April 2020 was > 2.5 million.

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