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

Javier Perez-Saez; Stephen A Lauer; Laurent Kaiser; Simon Regard; Elisabeth Delaporte; Idris Guessous; Silvia Stringhini; Andrew S Azman; Serocov-POP Study Group

doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30584-3

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

Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Apr;21(4):e69-e70. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30584-3. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Authors

Javier Perez-Saez¹, Stephen A Lauer², Laurent Kaiser³, Simon Regard⁴, Elisabeth Delaporte⁵, Idris Guessous⁶, Silvia Stringhini⁶, Andrew S Azman⁷, Serocov-POP Study Group

Collaborators

Serocov-POP Study Group:
Davidovic Alioucha, Isabelle Arm-Vernez, Sultan Bahta, Jonathan Barbolini, Hélène Baysson, Rebecca Butzberger, Sophie Cattani, François Chappuis, Alison Chiovini, Prune Collombet, Delphine Courvoisier, David De Ridder, Eugénie De Weck, Paola D'ippolito, Antoine Daeniker, Odile Desvachez, Yaron Dibner, Céline Dubas, Joséphine Duc, Isabella Eckerle, Céline Eelbode, Nacira El Merjani, Benjamin Emery, Benoit Favre, Antoine Flahault, Natalie Francioli, Laurent Gétaz, Alice Gilson, Acem Gonul, Julie Guérin, Lina Hassar, Aurélia Hepner, Francesca Hovagemyan, Samia Hurst, Olivia Keiser, Melis Kir, Gaëlle Lamour, Pierre Lescuyer, Fanny Lombard, Amélie Mach, Yasmina Malim, Eva Marchetti, Kailing Marcus, Soraya Maret, Chantal Martinez, Kourosh Massiha, Virginie Mathey-Doret, Loan Mattera, Philippe Matute, Jean-Michel Maugey, Benjamin Meyer, Tom Membrez, Natacha Michel, Aleksandra Mitrovic, Emmanuelle Marie Mohbat, Mayssam Nehme, Natacha Noël, Hugo-Ken Oulevey, Febronio Pardo, Francesco Pennacchio, Dusan Petrovic, Attilio Picazio, Giovanni Piumatti, Didier Pittet, Jane Portier, Géraldine Poulain, Klara Posfay-Barbe, Jean-François Pradeau, Caroline Pugin, Rakotomiaramanana Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Aude Richard, Christiane Rocchia Fine, Irine Sakvarelidze, Lilas Salzmann-Bellard, Magdalena Schellongova, Stephanie Schrempft, Mélanie Seixas Miranda, Milena Stimec, Michel Tacchino, Sophie Theurillat, Mélissa Tomasini, Kor-Gael Toruslu, Nawel Tounsi, Didier Trono, Natacha Vincent, Guillemette Violot, Nicolas Vuilleumier, Zoé Waldmann, Sylvie Welker, Manon Will, Ania Wisniak, Sabine Yerly, Maria-Eugenia Zaballa, Alenka Zeballos Valle

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA; Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Center for Emerging Viral Diseases and Laboratory of Virology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland; Division of Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Acute Medicine, Division of Emergency, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland; Cantonal Health Service, General Directorate for Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Cantonal Health Service, General Directorate for Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, USA; Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. Electronic address: azman@jhu.edu.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
COVID-19 / blood
COVID-19 / mortality*
COVID-19 / virology
Child
Child, Preschool
Humans
Middle Aged
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification
Switzerland / epidemiology
Young Adult