SARS-CoV-2 serological findings and exposure risk among employees in school and retail after first and second wave COVID-19 pandemic in Oslo, Norway: a cohort study
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Ethics IRB: 2020 by the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in South-Eastern Norway (Reference number 134064). Sex as a biological variable Eligibility criteria, ethical considerations, and follow-up: Eligible participants were workers either male or female, age > 18 years. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis Estimates showed that n=90 was needed in each group to detect a 10% deviation from p0 with a power of 80% and Type-I error rate of 5%. Table 2: Resources
Antibodies Sentences Resources This is partly supported by a serological study in the Oslo area with 9500 participants randomly selected from two ongoing research studies (Norflu and MoBa), which shows … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.27.21256214: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: 2020 by the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in South-Eastern Norway (Reference number 134064). Sex as a biological variable Eligibility criteria, ethical considerations, and follow-up: Eligible participants were workers either male or female, age > 18 years. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis Estimates showed that n=90 was needed in each group to detect a 10% deviation from p0 with a power of 80% and Type-I error rate of 5%. Table 2: Resources
Antibodies Sentences Resources This is partly supported by a serological study in the Oslo area with 9500 participants randomly selected from two ongoing research studies (Norflu and MoBa), which shows that 1.4% of the participants had developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (NIPH 2020d). SARS-CoV-2suggested: NoneSoftware and Algorithms Sentences Resources Statistical tests were used as indicated with Graphpad 9 (Binomial Test, Fisher’s exact test or Mann-Whitney test). Graphpadsuggested: (GraphPad, RRID:SCR_000306)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:However, low infection rates combined with the modest number of participants recruited in our study imposes limitations on the conclusions we can draw. The power estimates for the retrospective and prospective analyses to uncover the rate of undiagnosed cases in school and retail workers were based on scenarios made in April 2020 when this study was designed. Initially, we feared that the general population would face higher rates of disease transmission. In particular, we anticipated many infected workers in retail, as these individuals had exposure to potential transmission from customers and colleagues. Diagnostic testing capacity was insufficient at this stage, during the first wave, and many parameters were unknown. However, in contrast to the scenarios encountered in many other cities across the world, COVID-19 infection rates stayed relatively low in Oslo. As the approach of this study was to visit workplaces to collect data on occupational health, authorization and organization at the workplaces was required. We achieved a feasible mode of data collection through recruiting participants in groups from a limited number of workplaces, 10 schools and 15 retail stores. These were an arbitrary selection of representative workplaces in Oslo, not a random sample of individuals drawn from the entire workers’ population, and thus might be affecting the study’s external validity. Sampling can affect results, as outbreaks of COVID-19 show clustering. On the other hand, with just...
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