Seasonal Effect of Sunlight on COVID-19 among Countries with and without Lock-Downs

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

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    A map, as well as a list of countries and territories that did not mandate lock-downs can be freely downloaded from the world-wide-web (Wikipedia, 2020a); and a summary of countries with- and without lock-downs was also published elsewhere (Wehenkel, 2020) The infection per million figures were added for countries that instituted lock-downs and for “unlocked” countries that did not in each continent.
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    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:
    Any limitations assigned to the accuracy of the data reported by different countries or US states should affect equally both data sets (with and without lock-downs), thus having little bearing on the conclusions being presented. The lack of a positive effect of lock-downs presented here agrees with previous studies using virtual simulation as well as analysis of epidemiological data reporting that lock downs were both superfluous (did not prevent the explosive spread of COVID-19) and ineffective (did not slow down the death growth rate) (Chaudhry et.al., 2020, Sagripanti, 2020; Kuhbandner and Homburg, 2020; DeLarochelambert et.al., 2020; Wehenkel, 2020; Leffler et.al. 2020). These findings demonstrate by different and independent approaches that virtual simulation of epidemics should complement but never replace actual epidemiological data in policy making. The presented data (Table 1) indicates that COVID-19 progressed differently in countries at northern latitudes as it was winter time and sun exposure was limited at the onset of the pandemic during December 2019-March 2020, than in countries in the southern latitudes where summer sunlight was abundant. The shift of highest infection rates from countries in the northern-towards countries in the southern-hemisphere reported in the present work correlates with seasonal variation in the flux of germicidal sunlight (Lytle and Sagripanti, 2005; Sagripanti and Lytle, 2007; Sagripanti and Lytle 2020). Together with the limited vir...

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    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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