Routine asymptomatic testing strategies for airline travel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a simulation study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.08.20246132: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.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:The study findings should be interpreted within the context of the limitations of the data and model assumptions. There remain key uncertainties in the natural history of COVID-19, heterogeneity in transmission, and variation in diagnostic test accuracy and quality that are simplified in this modeling analysis. We assume a high degree of …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.08.20246132: (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: 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:The study findings should be interpreted within the context of the limitations of the data and model assumptions. There remain key uncertainties in the natural history of COVID-19, heterogeneity in transmission, and variation in diagnostic test accuracy and quality that are simplified in this modeling analysis. We assume a high degree of participation in testing programs and perfect self-isolation of those testing positive. We further assume that persons that are symptomatic do not travel based on current guidance, and the testing strategies would perform better if this was not true. The model assumes a fixed incidence and homogenous risk of infection for all persons, although we explore how different infection risk would affect our results. We include a modestly higher risk of infection during the day of airflight travel, although this risk is uncertain and assumed to be relatively low.7,15,16 We assumed all flights had comparable risk, despite variation in number of passengers and duration of flight. Routine asymptomatic test-and-travel strategies would require considerable resources, coordination, guidelines, and ongoing participation for airlines and travelers. In conclusion, this study supports adopting asymptomatic testing strategies for COVID-19 in airline passengers to reduce the risk of travel and transmission during the pandemic. Multiple approaches to asymptomatic test-and-travel are likely to have benefit, although each have drawbacks that should be considered, an...
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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