#!/usr/bin/python3 # # Calculate the age-stratified IFR based on the Spanish serosurvey of 60897 participants. # Author: Marc Bevand — @zorinaq # Prevalence of antibodies by age bracket, in % (serosurvey dates: 27-April-2020 to 11-May-2020) # Source: https://www.mscbs.gob.es/gabinetePrensa/notaPrensa/pdf/13.05130520204528614.pdf (page 8) prevalence_by_age = { (0,0): 1.1, (1,4): 2.2, (5,9): 3.0, (10,14): 3.9, (15,19): 3.8, (20,24): 4.5, (25,29): 4.8, (30,34): 3.8, (35,39): 4.6, (40,44): 5.3, (45,49): 5.7, (50,54): 5.8, (55,59): 6.1, (60,64): 5.9, (65,69): 6.2, (70,74): 6.9, (75,79): 6.1, (80,84): 5.1, (85,89): 5.6, (90,199): 5.8, } # Total deaths, and number of deaths by age bracket (as of 11-May-2020) # Source: https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/documentos/Actualizacion_102_COVID-19.pdf (page 1 and table 3) # Total deaths (26744) differs from the total for all age brackets (18722) # because age information is not available for 8022 deaths, as explained in # table 3 header: «Distribución de casos hospitalizados, ingresados en UCI y # fallecidos por grupos de edad y sexo información disponible» total_deaths = 26744 deaths_by_age = { (0,9): 2, (10,19): 5, (20,29): 23, (30,39): 61, (40,49): 197, (50,59): 605, (60,69): 1654, (70,79): 4529, (80,89): 7688, (90,199): 3958, } deaths_by_age[(0,199)] = total_brackets = sum(deaths_by_age.values()) # 18722 # To properly calculate the IFR, we need to account for the extra 8022 deaths # for which age information was not available, so we simply assume they are # distributed proportionally among age brackets for bracket in deaths_by_age: deaths_by_age[bracket] *= (total_deaths / total_brackets) # Population pyramid for Spain (age 0 to 100) # Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/spain-population/ # Hack to extract the raw data: https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1265380966450622464 # pyramid_spain[N] = number of people of age N pyramid_spain = [ 389071,395760,404555,414953,411842,432086,450617,467032,480928,493573, 506233,510163,501625,485224,469003,450996,438622,436275,440530,443668, 447359,450865,453090,454935,458810,464718,470848,476697,483276,491535, 500604,515444,538403,566972,594959,622001,652353,686993,723042,757510, 792033,815052,820836,814644,807993,799212,788640,777807,766575,752713, 736006,722714,715523,711721,706221,700412,690511,674241,653635,633659, 614107,592701,569064,544537,519985,494201,475071,466281,463940,460575, 457809,451462,438746,421694,405814,390815,372987,351294,327555,303574, 277747,258748,250683,249083,246213,244626,235612,214376,185512,155765, 131040,113392,91852,66359,48324,40084,32862,24229,14184,8251, 12310] def get_infected(bracket): '''Returns number of infected people in the given age bracket.''' i = 0 for age in range(bracket[0], bracket[1] + 1): for (bracket2, percentage) in prevalence_by_age.items(): if age >= bracket2[0] and age <= bracket2[1] and age < len(pyramid_spain): i += pyramid_spain[age] * percentage / 100.0 return i ifrs = {} for (bracket, deaths) in deaths_by_age.items(): infected = get_infected(bracket) ifr = 100.0 * deaths / infected print('Ages {:2} to {:3}: {:7} infected, {:5} deaths, {:6.3f}% IFR'.format( bracket[0], bracket[1], round(infected), round(deaths), ifr)) if bracket != (0,199): ifrs[bracket] = ifr print('True IFR may be higher due to right-censoring and under-reporting of deaths') # Now we apply the age-stratified IFR to a target country with a different # population pyramid. pyramid_usa = [ 3931967,3919500,3919461,3930158,3903010,3955644,4008192,4059364,4107872,4156677, 4208742,4241520,4245220,4231306,4220681,4208740,4210781,4236404,4278618,4316059, 4347272,4397310,4474657,4565701,4651027,4737732,4788205,4782769,4739004,4695388, 4645691,4592419,4541165,4490237,4433909,4375200,4315098,4254149,4194587,4137614, 4082405,4040406,4017264,4008404,4003094,4002870,4009404,4022256,4040872,4061465, 4080383,4112964,4165027,4226569,4281521,4332795,4362769,4360922,4333852,4300884, 4260806,4197638,4106208,3993650,3871350,3735929,3602786,3480392,3361570,3234769, 3107225,2956039,2770249,2564001,2361344,2156197,1973453,1827535,1707062,1586129, 1469802,1357365,1245835,1137042,1035221,938832,849231,767290,691462,616131, 563171,502660,421119,320109,246668,212578,178289,135554,84374,52727, 89949] pyramid_target = pyramid_usa sim_total = 0 sim_deaths = 0 for (bracket, ifr) in ifrs.items(): for age in range(bracket[0], bracket[1] + 1): if age < len(pyramid_target): sim_total += pyramid_target[age] sim_deaths += pyramid_target[age] * ifr / 100.0 assert sim_total == sum(pyramid_target) print('IFR on target country assuming disease prevalence equal among ages: {:6.3f}%'.format(100.0 * sim_deaths / sim_total))