Containment measures limit environmental effects on COVID-19 early outbreak dynamics
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources LMMs were fitted using the lmer function of the lme4 R package, while tests statistics were calculated using the lmerTest package. lmerTestsuggested: (R package: lmerTest, RRID:SCR_015656)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:Finally, we explicitly modeled the spread dynamics within regions (Carlson et al., 2020a; Coelho et al., 2020), thus avoiding the …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.23.20040501: (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 LMMs were fitted using the lmer function of the lme4 R package, while tests statistics were calculated using the lmerTest package. lmerTestsuggested: (R package: lmerTest, RRID:SCR_015656)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:Finally, we explicitly modeled the spread dynamics within regions (Carlson et al., 2020a; Coelho et al., 2020), thus avoiding the limitations of approaches assuming distributional equilibrium between the pathogen and the environment (Chipperfield et al., 2020). Multiple non-exclusive processes could explain temperature effects on COVID-19 early growth rate (Araújo et al., 2020; Sajadi et al., 2020). First, the persistence of SARS-Cov-2 and other coronaviruses outside the hosts decreases at high temperature, medium-high humidity, and under sunlight (Lowen et al., 2007; Chin et al., 2020; Kampf et al., 2020; Yap et al., 2020). Second, host susceptibility can be higher in cold and dry environments, for instance because of a slower mucociliary clearance, or a decreased host immune function under harsher conditions (Fares, 2013; Tamerius et al., 2013; Lowen and Steel, 2014). Although SARS-CoV-2 is largely transmitted indoor (Al Huraimel et al., 2020), climatic variation affects host immune response and disease susceptibility (Tamerius et al., 2013). Moreover, it modulates human host behavior, with cold temperatures leading to more time spent indoor and higher disease transmission risk (Tucker and Gilliland, 2007; Fares, 2013; but see also Azuma et al., 2020 for a pattern where contact among people increase in warm days). Thus, climate allows predictions of outbreaks of respiratory illnesses (Shaman et al., 2010; Tamerius et al., 2013), acting both as direct and/or indirect effect....
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