Assessing the impact of temperature and humidity exposures during early infection stages on case-fatality of COVID-19: A modelling study in Europe
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21264017: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Some limitations exist in this study. First, the effects of other interventions (e.g. increasing number of PCR tests performed and improvement of medical treatment) on the iCFR were not considered. There are minor variations in the weekly number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the eight European countries during the study period40. To avoid the effects caused by the variation of medical treatment and NPIs, we used the data during the …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21264017: (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:Some limitations exist in this study. First, the effects of other interventions (e.g. increasing number of PCR tests performed and improvement of medical treatment) on the iCFR were not considered. There are minor variations in the weekly number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the eight European countries during the study period40. To avoid the effects caused by the variation of medical treatment and NPIs, we used the data during the first wave of the pandemic when the changes in interventions were minor (when Re was stable and near one). Second, the data of indoor temperature and humidity are not available. It is reasonable to believe that the house indoor temperature and humidity are largely affected by the weather in Europe where air-conditioners or heaters are not frequently used at home during our study period. Thus, there is a monotonic relationship between house indoor condition and weather. Third, we cannot rule out the effect of certain confounding factors related to personal behaviours. (e.g. the dry air in winter can irritate people’s airways, which triggers more people to be cautious and reduce outdoor activities). In addition, because in some countries, many cases were confirmed and isolated in hospitals around two days after symptom onset on average (see Figure 1B), hence their environmental exposure would mainly be determined by the hospital air conditioning system. Therefore, we only assess the impact of weather exposure no longer than that time.
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