Potential Role of Social Distancing in Mitigating Spread of Coronavirus Disease, South Korea
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.27.20045815: (What is this?)
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Our study is not without limitations. We did not account for differences in the delay distributions or changes in the number of tests among cities. The intensity of intervention is likely to vary across regions given that majority of COVID-19 cases in South Korea were reported from Daegu. We did not have sufficient data to account for these factors. Nonetheless, the robustness of our findings is supported by the sensitivity analyses …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.27.20045815: (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
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Our study is not without limitations. We did not account for differences in the delay distributions or changes in the number of tests among cities. The intensity of intervention is likely to vary across regions given that majority of COVID-19 cases in South Korea were reported from Daegu. We did not have sufficient data to account for these factors. Nonetheless, the robustness of our findings is supported by the sensitivity analyses (Supplementary Materials). We were also unable to distinguish local and imported cases, which may overestimate ℛt [20]. We were able to perform a separate analysis for Seoul that accounts for imported cases using line list provided by the Seoul Metropolitan Government; our qualitative conclusions remained robust (Supplementary Materials). Our analysis focused on comparing metro traffic, which serves as a proxy for the degree of social distancing, with epidemiological dynamics in two cities. The 80% decrease in traffic volume suggests that the strength of social distancing in Daegu may be comparable to that in Wuhan, China [21]. However, we are not able to directly estimate the effect of social distancing on epidemiological dynamics. Other measures, such as intensive testing of core transmission groups and school closure, are also likely to have affected the changes in ℛt [2]. Future studies should consider quantifying contributions of different measures in preventing the spread. Finally, our study highlights the importance of considering geographi...
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