Failures of quarantine systems for preventing COVID‐19 outbreaks in Australia and New Zealand
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.17.21251946: (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:Limitations of our analysis include residual uncertainty around the cause of some outbreaks (eg, the Auckland August 2020 outbreak), and imprecision with denominator data on traveler numbers for Australia (eg, some travelers …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.17.21251946: (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:Limitations of our analysis include residual uncertainty around the cause of some outbreaks (eg, the Auckland August 2020 outbreak), and imprecision with denominator data on traveler numbers for Australia (eg, some travelers were moved between states on domestic flights which is not captured in the official data we used). Additionally, case numbers are constantly changing, due to the number of reclassifications caused by false positives and duplications. To substantially reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 incursion out of quarantine, the most obvious action is to reduce arrivals, or even suspend arrivals, from high infection locations. Beyond this, there are a range of other potential improvements in ongoing arrangements and processes as detailed in Table 2. In summary, Australia and New Zealand have had 16 COVID-19 identified failures arising from hotel-based quarantine up to 31 January 2021. These systems are now facing higher proportions of infected travelers that threaten the elimination status of these jurisdictions – urgent improvements to quarantine are required.
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.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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