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ArticleInfectious Disease Modelling2026

COVID-19, infection fatality rate (IFR) implied by the serology, antibody, testing in New York City.

Linus Wilson

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Article in Infectious Disease Modelling, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection fatality rates.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Linus WilsonDepartment of Economics & Finance, B.I. Moody III College of Business, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Moody Hall, Room 253, P.O. Box 43709, Lafayette, LA, 70504, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper estimates COVID-19 infection fatality rate (IFR) in early 2020 before pharmaceutical interventions were available on a large population in the United States. The better estimates of COVID-19 deaths in New York City and its high COVID-19 infection rate made it ideal to accurately estimate the IFR. Further, we analyze the deaths and infections in New York City to estimate an overall IFR for the United States of 0.86 percent.

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AntibodyCFRCOVID-19Death ratesIFRNew York citySARS-CoV-2SerologySeroprevalance

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PMID41278457
PMCPMC12639304

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