The stringency of the containment measures in response to COVID-19 inversely correlates with the overall disease occurrence over the epidemic wave
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.26.21250501: (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
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 study is subject to some potential limitations that need to be considered to allow an objective assessment of our results. Firstly, our estimation of last days of the first pandemic waves in some countries was affected by …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.26.21250501: (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
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 study is subject to some potential limitations that need to be considered to allow an objective assessment of our results. Firstly, our estimation of last days of the first pandemic waves in some countries was affected by complexity of epidemic curves and their first and second order derivatives. As a result, we may have underestimated duration of the first epidemic waves and cumulative incidences in some countries, such as Sweden and Poland. Nevertheless, if we consider alternative durations of first epidemic waves of 137 days and 168 days for Sweden and Poland, respectively, our findings of associations between the cumulative stringency of containment and cumulative incidences would not change. Secondly, cumulative pre-epidemic CHI values were not weighed with respect to their distance from the day 1 of epidemics, which means that stringent measures adopted for a short time and lifted long before the day 1 would count the same in the cCHI as stringent measures adopted closer to the day 1 and still in place at the beginning of epidemics. Indeed, the 28 European countries differed in (i) the length of pre-epidemic periods counted arbitrarily from the 1st January 2020 to the day preceding day1 of their epidemics, and (ii) times when they adopted their first containment measures (Table 1). This in turn allowed individual countries to accumulate CHIs over different times. For example, France accumulated pre-epidemic CHIs over just 1 day, Finland over 2 days, and Belgium over...
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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