Association of Public Health Interventions With the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.03.20030593: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
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No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Some limitations of this study need to be noted. First, while our model prediction aligned well with the observed data, we set the values of several parameters based on earlier epidemiological studies without accounting for the uncertainty,8,9 which might reduce the accuracy of our results. Second, we need field investigations and …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.03.20030593: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Some limitations of this study need to be noted. First, while our model prediction aligned well with the observed data, we set the values of several parameters based on earlier epidemiological studies without accounting for the uncertainty,8,9 which might reduce the accuracy of our results. Second, we need field investigations and serologic studies to confirm our estimate of the ascertainment rate, and the generalizability to other places is unknown. This may depend on the detection capacity in different locations.26 Third, due to the delay in laboratory tests, we might have missed some cases and therefore underestimated the ascertainment rate, especially for the last period. Finally, the impact of the interventions should be considered as a whole and we could not evaluate individual strategies by the epidemic curve. Taken together, both the epidemiological characteristics and our modeling estimates demonstrated that the aggressive disease containment efforts, including isolation of the source of infection, contact tracing and quarantine, social distancing, and personal protection and prevention, have considerably changed the course of Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, when there was neither effective drug nor vaccine for this new infectious disease with high transmission. Our analyses of different periods also have important implications for other countries, where there is a sharp surge in Covid-19 cases and at the early stage of the epidemic,1 to combat the outbreak. With ready p...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
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