CFR

American  

abbreviation

1. case fatality rate; case fatality risk; case fatality ratio.

2. Code of Federal Regulations.

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Example Sentences

Swiss luxury company Richemont CFR -0.32%decrease; red down pointing triangle has grown sales by more than 10% year-over-year in its Americas region for seven quarters in a row.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ex-defence minister Sergei Shoigu and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who are both under international sanctions, are also CFR board members.

From BBC

A virus that produces mild, undetected infections in 998 people, sends two people to the hospital, and then kills one of the hospitalized patients will have a CFR of 50 percent if public health authorities only manage to detect those two serious cases.

From Salon

Like many experts, Peter Palese, a microbiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, thinks that the CFR of 52 percent for H5N1 calculated by the WHO likely overestimates the disease’s severity.

From Salon

Dividing the total deaths by the number of cases results in what epidemiologists call a case fatality rate, or CFR, of 52 percent.

From Salon