Underdetection of cases of COVID-19 in France threatens epidemic control
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.10.20171744: (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:Despite this positive trend, our findings highlight structural limitations and a critical need for improvement. Some regions remained with limited diagnostic exhaustiveness by the end of June. This is particularly concerning in those regions predicted to have a large number of weekly infections, such as Île-de-France where approximately …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.10.20171744: (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:Despite this positive trend, our findings highlight structural limitations and a critical need for improvement. Some regions remained with limited diagnostic exhaustiveness by the end of June. This is particularly concerning in those regions predicted to have a large number of weekly infections, such as Île-de-France where approximately only 1 out of 3 cases with symptoms were detected by the end of June, and Grand Est (2 out of 10). Novel recommendations since the end of lockdown require that all patients with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 (as well as contacts of a confirmed case) be screened for SARS-CoV-22. Almost all cases (92% since May 25) clinically diagnosed by sentinel general practitioners as possible COVID-19 cases were prescribed a test10. However, only 31% of individuals with COVID-19-like symptoms consulted a doctor in the study period according to participatory surveillance data. Overall, these figures suggest that a large number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases were not screened because they did not seek medical care despite recommendations. A similar evidence emerged from a large-scale serological study in Spain where only between 16% and 20% of symptomatic participants with antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 reported a previous virological screening30. By combining estimates from virological and participatory surveillance, we extrapolated an incidence of symptomatic cases from crowdsourced data that is compatible with model projections, under the hypothesis that t...
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