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case fatality rates

case fatality rates is the plural of case fatality rate.

Meaning of case fatality rate

Noun

case fatality rate (plural case fatality rates)

  1. A percentage derived by the division of the number of fatalities by the number of confirmed (diagnosed) cases (sufferers) of a disease.
    • That 3.4 percent mortality rate, though still fluid, is formidable, even compared next to the case fatality rates (the number of deaths compared to the total number of those diagnosed) for other recent outbreaks.2020 March 12, Matt Stieb, “Does the Coronavirus Think I’m Old?”, in New York

Questions about case fatality rates

What is case fatality rates the plural of?
Case fatality rates is the plural of case fatality rate.

Words near case fatality rates in the dictionary

  1. case ending
  2. case endings
  3. case fan
  4. case fans
  5. case fatality rate
  6. case fatality rates
  7. case file
  8. case files
  9. case folding
  10. case fraction
  11. case fractions

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