Leveraging Serosurveillance and Postmortem Surveillance to Quantify the Impact of COVID-19 in Africa.

Leonardo ClementeShae GanttDavid SwerdlowCécile ViboudMuhammed SemakulaMarc LipsitchMauricio Santillana

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)

While estimating COVID-19's exact burden is challenging, the multiplicative factors we present furnish incidence estimates reflecting likely-to-worst-case ranges of infection. Our results stress the need for expansive surveillance to allocate resources in areas experiencing discrepancies between reported cases, projected infections, and deaths.

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