Spatially refined time-varying reproduction numbers of SARS-CoV-2 in Arkansas and Kentucky and their relationship to population size and public health policy, March – November 2020
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.26.21257862: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:There were several limitations in this study. One limitation was the lack of data on superspreading events that occurred in each state (for example, within prisons46 and nursing homes,47 as well as in religious settings, schools and sport camps, and social events48). Many of the counties located in both Arkansas and Kentucky contained large prison populations. The counties of Lincoln, Arkansas and Elliot, Kentucky, both contain county …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.26.21257862: (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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:There were several limitations in this study. One limitation was the lack of data on superspreading events that occurred in each state (for example, within prisons46 and nursing homes,47 as well as in religious settings, schools and sport camps, and social events48). Many of the counties located in both Arkansas and Kentucky contained large prison populations. The counties of Lincoln, Arkansas and Elliot, Kentucky, both contain county correctional facilities and prisons.37,49 The reason for the unstable Rt in these counties may stem from disease amplification in prison outbreaks rather than community spread. However, it is difficult to pinpoint certain related outbreaks, and there is limited county-level data specific to correctional facilities. Additionally, there were 1,755 unknown county-level cumulative cases in Arkansas. These cases were included in our state-level data analysis, but they were excluded from the Delta, non-Delta, and county-level hot spots analyses. Kentucky had all county-level data and all reported cases were used in all analyses. This study observed that both Arkansas and Kentucky, as well as the respective regions, had an extensive spread of COVID-19, since both states maintained a median Rt above 1. The direction of the trend of the Rt estimates were reflected by the implementation of preventative measures and their subsequent relaxation as the pandemic progressed. This study was able to examine the changing transmission potential of COVID-19 over ti...
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