I've revised my Infection Fatality Rates (IFR) from the Spanish Antibody Study to make it more accurate

Main changes:
1) data from different dates to correspond with when samples were taken
2) added confirmed cases to the denominator
3) added probable deaths into the final IFRs
Change 1: New data period to coincide with actual dates the serological samples were taken. Samples were taken over a 15 day period between April 27 and May 11.

Based on this chart I chose 18 days as an offset where positive rate for IgG is close to 100%.
Change 1 (cont): Because samples were gathered across 15 days, I chose a period offset by 18 days but also covering a 15 day period.

Therefore I took the data for all 15 days between April 9 (18 Days before April 27) and April 23 (18 days before May 5) and created an average.
Change 1 (cont): Is it correct to use 18 days? A little more than half will have antibodies by the end of one week.

BUT, keep in mind the chart is from symptom onset and "Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html
Change 2: I added confirmed cases to the total infected population predicted by AB testing.

So projected number of infected as per AB testing + confirmed cases is now the new Denominator
Change 3: I added the probable deaths into the total deaths that make up the Numerator.

Over the 15 day period, and also thereafter there is a pretty consistent number of probable deaths so the number isn't growing.
Change 3 (cont): Last day this data is available (5/18) there were 8523 probable deaths.

The average for the 15 days was 8678.

But on May 25th they revised deaths down by 1915 so I subtracted this from the total probable deaths bc unconfirmed deaths is where they would cut
Change 3 (cont): So that left me with 6763 probable deaths which I redistributed proportionally based on the percentage of total deaths each group represented.
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