Daily longitudinal sampling of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals substantial heterogeneity in infectiousness

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.12.21260208: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: This study was approved by the Western Institutional Review Board, and all participants provided informed consent.
    Consent: This study was approved by the Western Institutional Review Board, and all participants provided informed consent.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    RandomizationSample collection: Each day, participants were remotely observed by trained study staff collecting: The order of nostrils (left vs. right) used for the two different swabs was randomized.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Virus culture from nasal swabs: Vero-TMPRSS2 cells were grown in complete medium (CM) consisting of DMEM with 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco), 1 mM glutamine (Invitrogen), 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Invitrogen), 100 U/ml of penicillin (Invitrogen), and 100 μg/ml of streptomycin (Invitrogen) (
    Vero-TMPRSS2
    suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1818, RRID:CVCL_YQ48)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Swift v2 primer sequences were trimmed prior to variant analysis from iVar version 1.3.1 (https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1618-7) retaining all calls with a minimum allele frequency of 0.01 and higher.
    iVar
    suggested: None

    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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    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.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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