The Global Health Security Index is not predictive of coronavirus pandemic responses among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.21.20159061: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All statistical analyses were performed using STATA (Statistical Data Analysis Package version 16·0 IC, College Station, TX – USA). STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:The GHS index report revealed significant weaknesses in every country ‘s overall preparedness level, however it is imperative to understand …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.21.20159061: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All statistical analyses were performed using STATA (Statistical Data Analysis Package version 16·0 IC, College Station, TX – USA). STATAsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:The GHS index report revealed significant weaknesses in every country ‘s overall preparedness level, however it is imperative to understand why there is a discrepancy between the GHS index and the actual level of pandemic preparedness among the OECD countries studied 4,11. Although the performance of Australia and South Korea were consistent with their ranking on the GHS index, New Zealand was the best-performing country among the OECD countries, raising the question of the reliability of the GHS index rankings. South Korea and other Asian countries have provided swift, effective ways of dealing with the outbreak, perhaps due to their experience with the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2015. 12–14 The lower death rates reported in Australia, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Korea, and Japan may also be due to extensive testing, rapid surveillance, and effectively enforced quarantine and isolation mechanisms. The discrepancies between the GHS index rankings and the actual response to the COVID-19 pandemic based on our indicators among the OECD countries may also highlight some defects/deficits?? in the weighting of categories and the sources of data utilized by the expert panel.13 The GHS index expert panel evaluated the information provided by each country; this methodology has the potential to obscure crucial weaknesses in a country ‘s capacity to confront outbreaks. Although the US scored the highes...
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