Epidemiological Investigation of the First 135 COVID-19 Cases in Brunei: Implications for Surveillance, Control, and Travel Restrictions
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.29.20142463: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics approval was granted by the University Research Ethics Committee, Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources 15 All analyses were conducted using Microsoft Excel and R (ver Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)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:Limitations: Our study …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.29.20142463: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics approval was granted by the University Research Ethics Committee, Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources 15 All analyses were conducted using Microsoft Excel and R (ver Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)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:Limitations: Our study has several limitations. First, while we can be reasonably confident of having identified most cases since March, given more restrictive testing criteria in January and February, we are unable to account for potential importation events that may have occurred prior to detection of the first case. Second, the generalizability of our results are limited due to a lack of cases in settings such as residential care facilities and dormitories, no community transmission, and small number of cases. Third, due to the potential for pre-symptomatic infection of SARS-CoV-2, using the SI distribution to approximate the generation time distribution is problematic. We had not accounted for negative SIs with the use of the Gamma distribution and could have overestimated Rt to fit incidence data. One way to account for negative SI is to use a deconvolution approach using the incubation period distribution to recover the generation time distribution.32 However, this assumes that the generation time and incubation period distributions are independent, which may not be appropriate. Finally, given the limited data available and the analytic methods employed, we could not directly estimate the effectiveness of other NPIs, such as face-mask wearing, personal hygiene practices, and voluntary reductions in mobility.
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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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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