Modelling how face masks and symptoms-based quarantine synergistically and cost-effectively reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Bangladesh
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255673: (What is this?)
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Our study has a number of limitations. First, to ensure our model could run sufficiently quickly for the interactive app, stochasticity and individual variation in transmission was not incorporated. We expect only a minimal impact of these simplifications on disease trajectories and key results due to the large population size considered and rapid epidemic growth observed. However, they do limit the usefulness of the model for …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255673: (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:Our study has a number of limitations. First, to ensure our model could run sufficiently quickly for the interactive app, stochasticity and individual variation in transmission was not incorporated. We expect only a minimal impact of these simplifications on disease trajectories and key results due to the large population size considered and rapid epidemic growth observed. However, they do limit the usefulness of the model for exploring elimination scenarios, since stochasticity and superspreading, inherent to SARS-CoV-2 transmission58, become more influential under low levels of infection59. Imported infections, which may similarly become important near elimination, were also not considered. Age-structured models have been proposed for studying COVID-1934,35,52. We did not include age-structured transmission, which though not entirely realistic, may be reasonable given the high degree of intergenerational mixing in Bangladesh16 and some other LMICs17. We also do not consider exacerbated mortality when hospital capacity is exceeded, potentially underestimating mortality under some scenarios. Parameters used for case fatality, and proportions of symptomatic and hospitalised infections, were based on age-dependent estimates from HICs11,34 and the age-distribution in Dhaka District. However, these HIC-derived parameters may be less accurate when applied in this setting, as the incidence among age classes of underlying conditions that increase COVID-19 risk likely differs in LMIC...
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