Economic benefits of COVID-19 screening tests
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.22.20217984: (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:With that caveat, it is not self-evident that this must be the case. Individuals undertake social distancing and masking to self-protect, to protect others, and to conform to local norms and laws. Testing negative in the …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.22.20217984: (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:With that caveat, it is not self-evident that this must be the case. Individuals undertake social distancing and masking to self-protect, to protect others, and to conform to local norms and laws. Testing negative in the morning does not reduce the incentive to self-protect during the day. The effect on behavior of testing positive is ambiguous: altruism would lead one to reduce contacts even if not isolating, but no longer worrying about one’s own health while caring little about the health of others could increase risky behavior. Empirical research on this effect is needed. The analysis here relies on several simplifications and thus has multiple caveats. On the economic side, the GDP concept in this paper is private sector output and it does not include any of the deficit-financed emergency support measures passed during the pandemic. The model is estimated for the entire United States, so it necessarily misses regional heterogeneity, nor does it model frictions or adjustment dynamics other than those arising from epidemiological dynamics. On the epidemiological side, we do not incorporate contact tracing because of the general lack of timely contact tracing currently in the United States. Contact tracing would enhance the benefits of increased testing, especially from additional PCR tests within the public health system, because more cases would be identified; however, it would also increase costs, and a next step is to undertake a cost-benefit assessment of combining scr...
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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