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The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
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Where is the demography-adjusted infection fatality rate? #16

Closed stevepowell99 closed 2 years ago

stevepowell99 commented 2 years ago

(A question rather than an issue) In https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates you report how you used the Demography-adjusted infection fatality rate, but I wasn't able to find this in the source data?

sondreus commented 2 years ago

Hi @stevepowell99, happy to help:

You can find the file used by the models in this repo here: https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-global-excess-deaths-model/blob/main/source-data/ifr_cache.RDS

This file is based on the estimates generated here: https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-age-adjusted-ifr

The latter repo also details my approach, and links to article in which they were first published.