COVID-19 Testing and Case Rates and Social Contact Among Residential College Students in Connecticut During the 2020-2021 Academic Year
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.08.11.21261732: (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 Institutions included the main campus of the flagship state university (University of Connecticut), the four Connecticut state universities (Central, Eastern, Southern, and Western Connecticut State Universities), and 13 private universities (Albertus Magnus College, Connecticut College, Fairfield University, Mitchell College, Quinnipiac University, Sacred Heart University, Trinity College, University of Bridgeport, University of Hartford, University of New Haven, University of Saint Joseph, Wesleyan … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.08.11.21261732: (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 Institutions included the main campus of the flagship state university (University of Connecticut), the four Connecticut state universities (Central, Eastern, Southern, and Western Connecticut State Universities), and 13 private universities (Albertus Magnus College, Connecticut College, Fairfield University, Mitchell College, Quinnipiac University, Sacred Heart University, Trinity College, University of Bridgeport, University of Hartford, University of New Haven, University of Saint Joseph, Wesleyan University, and Yale University). Trinitysuggested: (Trinity, RRID:SCR_013048)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:This study is subject to several limitations. First, we have focused on diagnosed COVID-19 cases recorded and reported by universities. However, cases may be a poor proxy for infections in institutions where testing rates per student were low or where asymptomatic testing was not commonplace or infrequent. It is likely that institutions with frequent asymptomatic testing of students detected essentially all infections, asymptomatic and symptomatic. At those institutions, reported case counts might be a reliable proxy for incidence of infection. In contrast, institutions that relied solely on symptomatic case reporting (and testing capacity in surrounding towns, which was dominated by self-initiated testing on demand) likely missed asymptomatic infections. For this reason, case incidence rates might not be comparable across campuses that adopted different testing strategies. Second, we used measures of close interpersonal contact as a proxy for COVID-19 transmission risk. We aggregated contact in university-associated CBGs, which may include contact occurring off-campus among non-students. Contact rates are computed from close-proximity events within a sample of mobile devices providing geo-location information40. However, this sample might not be representative of residential students in university-associated CBGs, or might fail to detect contact events that result in COVID-19 transmission. Contact events occurring within device primary dwell locations were excluded, so conta...
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.
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Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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