Omicron SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England during February 2022: A series of cross-sectional community surveys
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Our study has limitations. We have observed a slow decline in response rates since the beginning of the study, from approximately 30% returning swabs with valid RT-PCR test results in round 1 (1 May to 1 June 2020) to 12.2% in round 17 (5 to 20 January 2022). To improve response rates and make the study more representative we included a small monetary incentive in round 18 among those aged 13 to 44 years, following a successful pilot. …
SciScore for 10.1101/2022.03.10.22272177: (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 limitations. We have observed a slow decline in response rates since the beginning of the study, from approximately 30% returning swabs with valid RT-PCR test results in round 1 (1 May to 1 June 2020) to 12.2% in round 17 (5 to 20 January 2022). To improve response rates and make the study more representative we included a small monetary incentive in round 18 among those aged 13 to 44 years, following a successful pilot. This had the result of more than doubling response rates at these ages, giving an overall response rate of 15.0%. We used rim weighting to correct the sample to the characteristics of the base population16. Unlike in previous rounds, the rim weighting correction led to only small changes in round 18 between the unweighted and weighted prevalence, reflecting the improved representativeness of the obtained sample. In conclusion, we report continued high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections during February 2022 as the Omicron wave in England has persisted. The ongoing replacement by BA.2 of other Omicron sublineages demonstrates a transmission advantage for BA.2 which may be contributing to the high rates of infection, alongside the opening up of society as all domestic legal restrictions related to COVID-19 in England were lifted. Of some concern is the recent uptick in hospitalisations in England which may reflect the level or increasing rates of infection in older people in the most recent data. Continued surveillance of infection and hospitalisa...
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