Multifaceted strategies for the control of COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Ontario, Canada
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.04.20244194: (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.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations: Our results should be interpreted within the study assumptions and limitations. For the model structure, staff-to-resident ratio, and population interactions, we relied on existing data and correspondence with LTCFs affected by COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada. We did not include visitation by community members in the model during the outbreak, which may be allowed with specific guidelines for visitors. We also did not include other …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.04.20244194: (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.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Limitations: Our results should be interpreted within the study assumptions and limitations. For the model structure, staff-to-resident ratio, and population interactions, we relied on existing data and correspondence with LTCFs affected by COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada. We did not include visitation by community members in the model during the outbreak, which may be allowed with specific guidelines for visitors. We also did not include other modes of disease transmission such as aerosolization of the virus without adequate ventilation. For evaluation of routine testing, we assumed a 100% compliance rate among staff. While this may be a reasonable assumption for non-invasive, self-administered saliva testing, compliance will likely be affected by practical challenges of a relatively invasive NP testing. We assumed that staff cohorting can be effectively and sustainably implemented as described; however, staff shortages and the use of overtime to replace staff may affect the effectiveness of this strategy. We assumed that the protective efficacy of a vaccine would be reduced by 10% to 50% in comorbid and elderly residents, similar to observations for influenza vaccines (44,45). If the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine was not affected by age or frailty, vaccine impact would be even greater than projected here among residents.
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.
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