Determining the Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 in Italy: Novel Epidemiological Study

Mengqing Yan   ^{1, 2} ;   Wenjun Kang   ^{1, 2} ;   Zhifeng Guo   ^{1, 2} ;   Qi Wang   ^{1, 3} ;   Peizhong Peter Wang   ^{3, 4} ;   Yun Zhu   ⁵ ;   Yongli Yang   ⁶ ;   Wei Wang   ^{1, 2}

¹ Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

² The Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Health Inspection of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, China

³ Center for New Immigrant Wellbeing, Markham, ON, Canada

⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China