Critical timing and extent of public health interventions to control outbreaks dominated by SARS-CoV-2 variants in Australia: a mathematical modelling study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.21260055: (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 All analyses and simulations were performed in MATLAB R 2019a (Supplementary Information p11–13). MATLABsuggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)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. First, we simulated historical epidemics based on four Australian states but excluding Queensland, which experienced a significant outbreak in …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.21260055: (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 All analyses and simulations were performed in MATLAB R 2019a (Supplementary Information p11–13). MATLABsuggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)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. First, we simulated historical epidemics based on four Australian states but excluding Queensland, which experienced a significant outbreak in March–April 2020. That is because the state’s official reports did not include information on whether a diagnosed case is from a known or unknown source and hence cannot inform our model. Second, the rate of viral transmission may vary across countries due to differences in health care capacities and the extent of public health interventions. Our study uses Australia as a case study but intends to generalise this work to other settings in future investigations. Similarly, we did not consider environmental differences, which is likely to play a role and differ between states. Third, to the completion date of this study, reliable data on the transmissibility and mortality of the novel variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine against new variants are still under investigation. Our study was conducted with limited availability of these data. Finally, we did not differentiate between the nature of the new cases. Cases in the same household as a known case and those who were isolated at the time of their diagnosis will be different from cases that are not linked to known cases and who were not isolated at the time of their diagnosis. It was not possible to incorporate these qualitative differences in a quantitative model, but they clearly matter. In conclusion, our study quantifi...
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