County-level exposures to greenness and associations with COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the United States
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.26.20181644: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources We collected eleven county level Census variables from the 2000 Census (https://www.census.gov) and the 2010 5-year American Community Surveys (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/): proportion of residents older than 65, proportion of residents aged 15-44, proportion of residents aged 45-64, proportion of Hispanic residents, proportion of Black residents, median household income, median home value, proportion of residents in poverty, proportion of residents with a high school diploma, population density, and proportion of residents that own their house. https://www.census.govsugg…SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.26.20181644: (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
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources We collected eleven county level Census variables from the 2000 Census (https://www.census.gov) and the 2010 5-year American Community Surveys (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/): proportion of residents older than 65, proportion of residents aged 15-44, proportion of residents aged 45-64, proportion of Hispanic residents, proportion of Black residents, median household income, median home value, proportion of residents in poverty, proportion of residents with a high school diploma, population density, and proportion of residents that own their house. https://www.census.govsuggested: (U.S. Census Bureau, RRID:SCR_011587)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:We acknowledge that this study has several limitations. This is an ecological study with aggregated data on county level. Ecological designs should not be used to make inferences about individual risks even though they are valid for hypothesis-generating purposes. Publicly available COVID-19 outcome data was only available at county level, while COVID-19 incidence and mortality, and sociodemographic characteristics likely vary at a smaller spatial scale. (Villeneuve and Goldberg 2020) COVID-19 events are not independent and likely cluster over time and space which may have resulted in biased effect estimates. (Villeneuve and Goldberg 2020) Although we adjusted for several important confounders, such as days since first COVID-19 case reported and days since stay-at-home order, it is possible that there is residual confounding by these factors. Days since stay-at-home order is based on the start date of the issuance of the order. However, in several states the stay-at-home order was ended/relaxed in (the end of) April or May (earlier than June 7). Further, there are other state-level physical distance closures (e.g. day cares, K-12 schools, gyms) that we did not take into account. As additional adjustment for days since non-essential business closure and days since nursing home visitor ban did not affect our associations, we do not think that adjustments for additional closures would greatly impact our findings. We also note that physical distance closures and face coverings re...
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