Widespread testing, case isolation and contact tracing may allow safe school reopening with continued moderate physical distancing: A modeling analysis of King County, WA data

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.14.20174649: (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: 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:
    Our study has several limitations. As in most epidemics, SARS-CoV-2 transmission and acquisition risk is not distributed homogeneously. Individuals with more daily contacts, due to workplace or household size are at greater risk of infection. Those deemed to be essential workers who cannot physically distance will also be less responsive to state stay-at-home orders. Our model projections capture the heterogeneity in transmission by age but assume homogeneous risk of transmission and outcomes within age groups. Importantly for policy, this assumption means our current predictions are pessimistic. Another limitation of our analysis is that we apply uniform reduction of transmission across age groups due to social distancing. Contact rates of different age groups are surely affected differentially by the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (school closures, work-from-home policy, etc.). However, lack of local data prevented more detailed analysis. Implementing separate contact matrices for each transmission venue (home, school, work, etc.) in the future will allow more precision. Diagnostic rates are similarly simplified here. Some recent data suggest that time-varying age-specific diagnostic rate are more appropriate and will be included and informed by the number of tests and the fraction positive reported daily in the next model iteration. Our analysis gives hope that widespread testing, case isolation and contact tracing may allow for coexistence with S...

    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.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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