Omicron Endemic True Number of Infections and Fatality Rate

This bar chart race shows the estimated accumulated number of SARS-CoV-2 infections by country, world daily number of infections and infection fatality rate (IFR), during the omicron surge from 1st December 2021 to 12th February.

All SARS-CoV-2 variants are included in the numbers to illustrate how the number of infections and fatality rate changes over the time period when omicron become the dominant variant.

Estimates of infections recent week are extrapolated projections.

Please note that;
Cases are not the same as infections. Cases are confirmed numbers, while infections are estimated numbers. Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is calculated as deaths in percentage of confirmed cases, while Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) is calculated as deaths in percentage of estimated cases.
A person infected with previous variants (like Delta) could be reinfected with omicron. Number of infections are not the same persons who have been infected.

Sources:
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and John Hopkins University (CSSE)

Music:
Omega by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au

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