Serial Monitoring of Case Fatality Rate to Evaluate Comprehensive Strategies against COVID-19

Abstract

Acharya et al. [1] comprehensively analyzed the present global health policies on COVID-19 especially in India and its outcomes so far, as well as proposing simple and practical frameworks to construct the necessary policies in desperate need against the pandemic. Their insights will surely be a benefit not only to India but also to the entire world community. However, to determine how big of an impact new policies presented would have upon implementation, adequate evaluation methods should also be adopted simultaneously. A good policy cannot be defined “good” unless we have a method for its evaluation. We believe that along with the number of positive cases and deaths, serial monitoring of Case Fatality Rate (CFR) should receive further attention, especially in the evaluation of policies in acute phases of the pandemic.