Risk Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Farmworkers in Monterey County, California
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.01.21250963: (What is this?)
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Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: Farmworkers were eligible for participation if they were not pregnant, ≥18 years old, had conducted farm work within the two weeks preceding their testing date, and were sufficiently proficient in English or Spanish to give consent and complete study procedures. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Antibodies Sentences Resources Study procedures: After the participant completed the SARS-CoV-2 TMA test and consented to participate in the study, the study team obtained a blood sample by venipuncture for testing of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody status. anti-SARS-CoV-2sug…SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.01.21250963: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: Farmworkers were eligible for participation if they were not pregnant, ≥18 years old, had conducted farm work within the two weeks preceding their testing date, and were sufficiently proficient in English or Spanish to give consent and complete study procedures. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Antibodies Sentences Resources Study procedures: After the participant completed the SARS-CoV-2 TMA test and consented to participate in the study, the study team obtained a blood sample by venipuncture for testing of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody status. anti-SARS-CoV-2suggested: NoneStatistical analyses: We analyzed current (TMA-positivity) and historical (IgG antibody reactivity) SARS-CoV-2 infection separately. TMA-positivity) and historical (IgGsuggested: NoneResults 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:Several limitations should be considered. We cannot determine how well our sample represents the farmworker population, many of whom are “hidden” due to their informal workforce participation and undocumented status.31 As we excluded individuals who did not speak Spanish or English sufficiently well to participate, our study likely under-represents indigenous populations. We observed differences in prevalence of current, but not prior, SARS-CoV-2 infection between study participants recruited at clinics and those recruited via community outreach events,7 as individuals seeking testing at clinics were more likely to be symptomatic or to report recent known exposure; to mitigate confounding, we defined strata by recruitment site. In addition, waning antibodies, particularly for individuals experiencing mild or asymptomatic infection,32 may have contributed to misclassification for individuals infected early in the pandemic. Lastly, many identified risk factors were highly correlated, making it difficult to separate out their unique effects. Our previous analyses demonstrated a high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among farmworkers in California’s Salinas Valley; findings reported here further underscore the urgent need to intervene on modifiable risk factors such as increasing availability of isolation facilities to reduce exposure to COVID-19 cases at home and access to paid medical leave to avoid transmission in the workplace. Farmworkers speaking indigenous languages, who...
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