SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in educational settings: a prospective, cross-sectional analysis of infection clusters and outbreaks in England
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.21.20178574: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. 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:Extensive social distancing and infection control measures were implemented for returning staff and students with strict limitations on the number of staff and students in each bubble. In addition, educational settings in …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.21.20178574: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. 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:Extensive social distancing and infection control measures were implemented for returning staff and students with strict limitations on the number of staff and students in each bubble. In addition, educational settings in regions with high incidence areas remained closed and parents were not required to send their children to school. The low rates of SARs-CoV-19 infection and outbreaks in England are consistent with the experience of other countries that opened their educational settings after lockdown as well as those that kept their preschools and primary schools open throughout the pandemic period, albeit with varying background incidence rates.12 There are very few reports of widespread infection or transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in preschools and primary schools, especially when compared to other institutions such as hospitals, care homes,13,14 prisons,15 and certain workplace settings.16 We did, however, find a strong correlation between community SARS-CoV-2 incidence and risk of outbreaks in educational settings, even during a period of low SARS-CoV-2 incidence. This is not surprising since increased community transmission provides more opportunities for virus introduction into educational settings. The potential for spread within educational settings, as observed from the wider swabbing of some schools in our surveillance and from recent reports from other countries,17 does suggest that school closures may be necessary as part of lockdown in regions with increasing commun...
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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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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