The confounded crude case-fatality rates (CFR) for COVID-19 hide more than they reveal—a comparison of age-specific and age-adjusted CFRs between seven countries

• Manfred S. Green ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: manfred.s.green@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9753-5612

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• Victoria Peer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-0928

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• Naama Schwartz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Dorit Nitzan

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, European Region, Copenhagen, Denmark

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