Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by children and young people in households and schools: A meta-analysis of population-based and contact-tracing studies
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.14.21267713: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Ethics: Ethics permission not required for these secondary analyses of published data. 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 The search terms for PubMed were (“COVID-19” PubMedsuggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)[MeSH Terms] OR “schools”[MeSH Terms]) with terms for other databases shown in Appendix Table 1. MeSHsuggested: (MeSH, RRID:SCR_004750)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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.14.21267713: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Ethics: Ethics permission not required for these secondary analyses of published data. 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 The search terms for PubMed were (“COVID-19” PubMedsuggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)[MeSH Terms] OR “schools”[MeSH Terms]) with terms for other databases shown in Appendix Table 1. MeSHsuggested: (MeSH, RRID:SCR_004750)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:Limitations: Our data are subject to a number of limitations. Potential biases in school studies have been discussed above. RT-PCR studies may under-estimate infection in children compared with serology,[36] and different seroassays may provide differing results. Many of the included studies, however, combined findings from both PCR and serology,[10, 31, 32, 39, 40, 44, 47, 48, 54, 67] or undertook repeated PCR measures[40, 44, 45, 49-51, 53, 60] Importantly, though, these issues are likely to be similar across both contact-tracing and population studies and, therefore, would not alter the notable differences we found by setting. Contact-tracing studies are open to bias due to missed testing of contacts, although we only included those who planned routine testing of all contacts and who achieved a high proportion of contacts tested. Low numbers of child index cases and their contacts in some studies may also be a source of bias. Population studies may be biased by higher participation by higher socio-economic status groups and also as some studies specifically excluded those with recent contacts or symptoms.[50] We conducted multi-level analyses accounting for the nesting of multiple rounds of data-collection within single studies. Some of the smaller meta-analyses, however, may have been overly influenced by studies with many rounds of testing. Meta-regression analyses are conducted at study rather than individual level and are, therefore, subject to ecological biases and ca...
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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