The Impact of Age Demographics on Interpreting and Applying Population-Wide Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19

The authors acknowledge Gianluca Rinaldi for publicly posting the code for the paper produced by him and his coauthor, which greatly facilitated this analysis. They also acknowledge their coauthors on the initial rapid review that led the authors to consider this problem: Steve Schofield, Josée van den Hoogen, Barbara Strauss, and David Waller. Steve and Barbara merit particular thanks with respect to problem definition and providing guidance to the defence scientists who had not previously worked in this area. The authors also thank Marcin Pilat for his timely assistance on obtaining internal demographic data, and they acknowledge the work of the anonymous peer reviewers and associate editor whose timely and useful comments improved the final product.