Airborne magnetic nanoparticles may contribute to COVID-19 outbreak: Relationships in Greece and Iran
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.10.20247130: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: All patients gave written informed consent before study inclusion. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. 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:The present study has several limitations that should be considered when interpreting its findings. First, our causal modeling is designed to handle pairs of …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.10.20247130: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: All patients gave written informed consent before study inclusion. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. 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:The present study has several limitations that should be considered when interpreting its findings. First, our causal modeling is designed to handle pairs of variables, in which only linear relationships between predictor (pollution) and target variable (casualties) are considered, thus it may suffer from a typical limitation when a third variable is engaged. For instance, variation of meteorological factors (such as temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and prevailing winds) confines the vertical distribution of air contaminants, but also modulates human activities such as commuting choices and leisure occupation, and would subsequently impact the relationship between PM and the spread of infections. Consequently, the second issue is the potential of missing other important confounding factors (Supporting Information). A third limitation of this study is missing data. The estimate results obtained here are preliminary and must be treated with caution when analyzing, as in our case, short time series. This adds to the fact that the environmental study was performed at the city level, and inference of the epidemic dynamics at the nationwide level is dubious. But overall, limitations in data availability on the occurrence of magnetite in the atmosphere remain the main obstacle to conducting conclusive studies on this topic. Given the above considerations, future studies are needed involving a larger number of observations. Final mention must go to the fact that our results a...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
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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