Modelling the impact of reopening schools in the UK in early 2021 in the presence of the alpha variant and with roll-out of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2
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Raffaele Vardavas
Review 1: "Modelling the Impact of Reopening Schools in Early 2021 in the Presence of the New SARS-CoV-2 Variant and with Roll-out of Vaccination Against COVID-19"
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Reviewers: R Vardavas (RAND Corporation) | 📘📘📘📘📘
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.07.21251287: (What is this?)
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources For this study, as in our previous work [7-8], we used Covasim’s default parameters, pre-populated demographic data on population age structures and household sizes and contact patterns in school, community and household setting for the UK, and the population stratified across four population contact network layers: schools, workplaces, households and community settings. Covasim’ssuggested: NoneThe level of reduction in transmission in households, workplaces and community that we modelled was a combination of using Google mobility data [23] within households, workplaces and community but … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.07.21251287: (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
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources For this study, as in our previous work [7-8], we used Covasim’s default parameters, pre-populated demographic data on population age structures and household sizes and contact patterns in school, community and household setting for the UK, and the population stratified across four population contact network layers: schools, workplaces, households and community settings. Covasim’ssuggested: NoneThe level of reduction in transmission in households, workplaces and community that we modelled was a combination of using Google mobility data [23] within households, workplaces and community but also fitting to data during the calibration process. Googlesuggested: (Google, RRID:SCR_017097)Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
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.
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