Effects of Social Distancing Measures during the First Epidemic Wave of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Infection, Greece
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.27.20114017: (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: 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:Our analysis has some limitations. First, the lack of baseline pre-epidemic data since this was the first social contacts survey implemented in Greece. We asked respondents to report their contacts approximately two months earlier than the survey to make sure that these contacts were not affected by increased awareness of the pandemic. …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.27.20114017: (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: 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:Our analysis has some limitations. First, the lack of baseline pre-epidemic data since this was the first social contacts survey implemented in Greece. We asked respondents to report their contacts approximately two months earlier than the survey to make sure that these contacts were not affected by increased awareness of the pandemic. There might be recall bias although it is not clear to what direction. Our analysis has focused on the number of contacts, their ages (using wide age groups) and the place of the contact and not in the duration or the type of contact (physical or not) where the bias might be higher. Second, the survey was conducted in a sample from Athens Metropolitan Area and not from the whole of Greece. However, no relationship has been found between social contacts and urbanization. [30] In addition, the majority of the population lives in urban areas (Athens and other cities account for 35% and 79% of the Greek population, respectively) and the observed reduction of social contacts during lockdown was similar to other surveys conducted in China and UK.[24, 31] Third, 7the estimate of R0 depends on the serial interval and the number of imported cases. As there was no data from a local study of pairs infector-infectee, the distribution of the serial interval was based on previous estimates.[12, 32-34] The estimated R0 was in accordance with the epidemics in China [4] and Italy [35] and in our simulations we accounted for the uncertainty in this value. In add...
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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