Change in age distribution of COVID-19 deaths with the introduction of COVID-19 vaccination
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.20.21260842: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Statistical analyses: All analyses were performed in STATA 16·0 (StataCorp, 2019). STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:Some other limitations need to be discussed. The results presented here …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.20.21260842: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Statistical analyses: All analyses were performed in STATA 16·0 (StataCorp, 2019). STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:Some other limitations need to be discussed. The results presented here represent exploratory analyses of ecological nature and they carry the risk of ecological fallacy and unmeasured, unaccounted confounding. Nevertheless, the patterns observed are compatible and extend the results of large-scale population cohort analyses from countries like Israel and UK that demonstrated large clinical benefits from rapid massive deployment of vaccination in whole countries (4–6). One particular source of unaccounted confounding is the extent to which COVID-19 deaths in nursing home residents may have decreased over time, due to non-vaccine-related reasons, e.g. better protection of nursing homes after the first wave in 2020 and a reduction due to harvesting effects of the population pool of frail nursing home residents who would be highly likely to succumb upon infection. A previous analysis comparing the first versus the second wave (until mid-January 2021) found a large decrease in the proportion of COVID-19 represented by nursing home residents in several high-income countries (9). Available data from several European countries and Canada suggest a further decline in the share of deaths represented by nursing home residents during 2021 (Appendix 1). Universal vaccination is easier to achieve in nursing homes than among the community-dwelling elderly. Nevertheless, deaths seem to have declined equally steeply also among community-dwelling elderly (Appendix 1). Other potential sources ...
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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Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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