COVID-19 Epidemic in Algeria: Assessment of the Implemented Preventive Strategy
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Table 1: Rigor
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources R0: The average basic reproduction number I(t): The incidence (cumulative cases number) at t time p: The baseline prevalence (in this study, p at 7 days before the estimation day) SI: The serial interval t: The time (in this study, 7 days) N: sample size HI: Herd Immunity Statistical analysis and software: This study was carried out using Excel 2013 and STATA/IC 15 software. Excelsuggested: NoneResults 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: …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.04.21.20074443: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources R0: The average basic reproduction number I(t): The incidence (cumulative cases number) at t time p: The baseline prevalence (in this study, p at 7 days before the estimation day) SI: The serial interval t: The time (in this study, 7 days) N: sample size HI: Herd Immunity Statistical analysis and software: This study was carried out using Excel 2013 and STATA/IC 15 software. Excelsuggested: NoneResults 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:We believe that the method we used to carry out the evaluation has given us a good overview of the effectiveness of the preventive strategy, and the basic reproductive number R0 is a precious variable to forecast the spreading of COVID-19, however, one of the limitation that we faced in this study is that, the R0’s estimating method that we used is based on the cumulative cases and not on the number of new cases reported daily, it was difficult to do so because of the large variation in the number of cases reported daily during the epidemic, therefore, this method can only detect the decrease in R0 up to 1 but not less. Furthermore, R0 is not the only factor to consider when estimating the burden of the epidemic and it is not necessarily the best indicator of the magnitude of the COVID-19 epidemic as it depends as mentioned above on the rate of symptomatic and asymptomatic cases and on testing capabilities. The most reliable parameters to assess the epidemic evolution remain first, the number of daily admissions to intensive care units, and secondly the emergency room admissions, and thirdly the number of hospitalizations. The observation of the daily number of deaths by COVID-19 is also good indicator if we take into account other bias such as age structure, quality of health service delivery and medical history of cases over time and places. In order to better the control of the epidemic, we should decrease the basic reproduction number, no drugs or vaccines have proven the...
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