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cord-336115-7ykvl3u6	Binns, Colin	The COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Health and Epidemiology	2020-05-19		.txt	text/plain	3560	227	59	The history of public health contains a number of examples of infectious diseases that were initially thought to have had a very high CFR only for it to be revised downward later. 11 A disease that has a high transmission rate and is very severe is the greatest public health risk. COVID-19 has a high transmission rate, and the CFR appears to be greater than for influenza epidemics, and it is, therefore, potentially a major public health threat. In February, the CFR for COVID-19 infection was estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be 2%, much lower than for MERS and SARS, but estimates of the CFR have changed over time as the criteria for counting the number of cases in the denominator has changed to include very mild or even asymptomatic infections. Modeling of the role of contact tracing and case isolation suggest that these are effective in the control of epidemics such as COVID-19.	./cache/cord-336115-7ykvl3u6.txt	./txt/cord-336115-7ykvl3u6.txt