Assessment of a COVID-19 Control Plan on an Urban University Campus During a Second Wave of the Pandemic
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.23.21252319: (What is this?)
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics The plan for this analysis was reviewed by the Boston University CRC Institutional Review Board (IRB) and was classified as non-human subjects research. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources This blended modality allowed classes to accommodate on-line only students using Zoom software and in-person students simultaneously. Zoomsuggested: (ZOOM, RRID:SCR_002175)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…
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.23.21252319: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics The plan for this analysis was reviewed by the Boston University CRC Institutional Review Board (IRB) and was classified as non-human subjects research. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources This blended modality allowed classes to accommodate on-line only students using Zoom software and in-person students simultaneously. Zoomsuggested: (ZOOM, RRID:SCR_002175)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:There were several limitations to the latter study including the selection criteria for inclusion of universities that resulted in only one Boston-area institution of higher education in the analysis and assuming that transmission in the community arose from the university campus rather than the converse, which did not account for evidence from the BU contact tracing efforts, as described above, that suggested 55.7% of the transmission was exogenous (i.e. arising in the community). BU’s success is consistent with current understanding of best practices for COVID-19 control. In fact, these strategies of aggressive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine and isolation have been successfully implemented in many countries, including Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.21–23 However, unlike these countries, the BU setting did not allow the restriction of travel between the campus and nearby community, making this a strong demonstration of the utility of these approaches even despite substantial importation of cases from the surrounding community. This can potentially serve as a model for other institutions nested within a broader community. The semester was not without challenges. There were times when the contact tracing team was unable to identify contacts due to some students’ reluctance to divulge information regarding where they had been or who they had been with. In these cases, coordination between the dean of students and the contact tracing team was critical in identifyin...
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Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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