Green spaces mitigate racial disparity of health: A higher ratio of green spaces indicates a lower racial disparity in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in the USA
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.11.11.20228130: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable From the 2019 census data, we obtained the population density, the female population ratio, the difference in black–white population, the difference in black–white older adults, household size, housing value, the rate of high school graduates or higher, the rate of households with broadband, median household income, the poverty rate, healthcare receipts data, travel time to work, the employment rate, and the number of firms for our study areas (Appendix Table 1)58, 62. Table 2: Resources
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Results from OddPub: We did not …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.11.11.20228130: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable From the 2019 census data, we obtained the population density, the female population ratio, the difference in black–white population, the difference in black–white older adults, household size, housing value, the rate of high school graduates or higher, the rate of households with broadband, median household income, the poverty rate, healthcare receipts data, travel time to work, the employment rate, and the number of firms for our study areas (Appendix Table 1)58, 62. 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:Limitations and opportunities for future research: This study has some limitations that point to opportunities for future research. We collected SARS-CoV-2 infection data from county government websites of each of the 135 counties we examined. The quality of data is credible for each county, but the methods of collecting and sorting data clearly varied across counties. Moreover, although there are 229 counties containing or overlapping all cities with a population ≥ 100,000 in the United States, infection data were unavailable for 94 of these counties, leaving a set of high-quality data from 135 counties. This study only examined racial disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in the US at the county level. Although the racial disparity in infection rates in the United States might be a good example for countries with diverse racial populations6, 9, 106, we suggest that this research should be replicated in other countries, to fully determine the complex issue of racial disparity in infection rates in relation to environmental exposure and pandemic dynamics. This study provides a base-line analysis of green spaces and racial disparity in pandemic infections. It is limited by the normal constraints of a cross-sectional, ecological design. Cross-sectional associations do not imply causality and we cannot avoid the possibility of ecological fallacy. These are possibilities that can be investigated in further studies. Nevertheless, results from this study echo findings of many p...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
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Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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