Associations of Stay-at-Home Order and Face-Masking Recommendation with Trends in Daily New Cases and Deaths of Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 in the United States
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.01.20088237: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study was exempt from the review by an Institutional Review Board for the use of publicly available de-identified data. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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:Strengths and weaknesses of this study: The major strength of this study is the use of State-based national data …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.01.20088237: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study was exempt from the review by an Institutional Review Board for the use of publicly available de-identified data. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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:Strengths and weaknesses of this study: The major strength of this study is the use of State-based national data of laboratory-confirmed cases in the analyses.2 Moreover, two piece-wise log-linear regression methods were used to rigorously examine trends changes, according to the guidelines on trend analyses of population data and other methodological considerations.19-22 Further, the simulation studies provide comprehensive estimates of trends changes linked to early-implementation of SAHO at various time points and early-removal of SAHO with various extents. Several limitations of this study are noteworthy. First, the positive rates varied among states and by time, suggesting under-testing of the potential patients. The exact COVID-19 case numbers thus are not available, although efforts were made to estimate them using the Johns Hopkins data repository of COVID-19 cases.28 Given the data inconsistence we noticed,1 such an estimation in our view was not optimal. We were more confident in the reliability of the laboratory-confirmed case numbers. Inclusion of positive-test rate in our models may alleviate the variances in test rate cross the time. Second, there was a lag in COVID-19 reporting,29 which may lead to inaccurate estimation of the case numbers. However, the increases in the proportion of the tested population appeared stable in the U.S.2 It suggests the lag in reporting may not change significantly as the time changes, and will have minimal impact on the trend anal...
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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