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1. Assessment of transparency indicators across the biomedical literature: How open is open?

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Stylianos Serghiou
   2. Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis
   3. Kevin W. Boyack
   4. Nico Riedel
   5. Joshua D. Wallach
   6. John P. A. Ioannidis

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

2. Impact of COVID-19 on education, health and lifestyle behaviour of Brazilian urology residents

   This article has 16 authors:

   1. José Antonio Prezotti
   2. João Victor T. Henriques
   3. Luciano A. Favorito
   4. Alfredo F. Canalini
   5. Marcos G. Machado
   6. Thulio B. V. Brandão
   7. Akemi M. V. Barbosa
   8. Julyana K. M. Moromizato
   9. Karin M. J. Anzolch
   10. Roni de C. Fernandes
   11. Fransber R. A. Rodrigues
   12. Carlos H. S. Bellucci
   13. Caroline S. Silva
   14. Antonio Carlos L. Pompeo
   15. Jose de Bessa Jr.
   16. Cristiano M. Gomes

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

3. Preferences and patterns of response to public health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Oded Nov
   2. Graham Dove
   3. Martina Balestra
   4. Katharine Lawrence
   5. Devin Mann
   6. Batia Wiesenfeld

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

4. SARS-CoV-2 infects carotid arteries: implications for vascular disease and organ injury in COVID-19

   This article has 22 authors:

   1. Susanne Pfefferle
   2. Thomas Günther
   3. Victor G. Puelles
   4. Fabian Heinrich
   5. Dominik Nörz
   6. Manja Czech-Sioli
   7. Alexander Carsten
   8. Susanne Krasemann
   9. Milagros N. Wong
   10. Lisa Oestereich
   11. Tim Magnus
   12. Lena Allweiss
   13. Carolin Edler
   14. Ann Sophie Schröder
   15. Maura Dandri
   16. Tobias B. Huber
   17. Markus Glatzel
   18. Klaus Püschel
   19. Adam Grundhoff
   20. Marc Lütgehetmann
   21. Martin Aepfelbacher
   22. Nicole Fischer

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

5. Estimation of case-fatality rate in COVID-19 patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in the New York state: a preliminary report

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Yang Ge
   2. Shengzhi Sun
   3. Ye Shen

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

6. Social media study of public opinions on potential COVID-19 vaccines: informing dissent, disparities, and dissemination

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Hanjia Lyu
   2. Junda Wang
   3. Wei Wu
   4. Viet Duong
   5. Xiyang Zhang
   6. Timothy D. Dye
   7. Jiebo Luo

   This article has been curated by 1 group:

   • Curated by eLife

     Evaluation Summary:

     This study uses social media data (namely twitter) to analyse factors of covid-vaccine acceptance. It first trains a classifier to detect whether a tweets pro-vaccine, neutral, or against. Using then a large corpus of accounts, it investigates multiple factors explaining this position in a light counterfactual analysis. The central finding is that the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are more likely to hold polarized opinions on COVID-19 vaccines; other findings inclduing that personal pandemic experience has an important impact on acceptance, or that interest in politics modulates acceptance. This study a good example of what machine learning can do with social media data; however it is also a good example of the high data-demands and limitations of a machine learning approach. The correlations found are plausible but the causal implications are not evidenced strongly enough to guide public policy.

     (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2 agreed to share their names with the authors.)

   Reviewed by eLife, ScreenIT

7. Basic prediction methodology for covid-19: estimation and sensitivity considerations

   This article has 1 author:

   1. Tom Britton

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

8. Care homes, their communities, and resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim findings from a qualitative study

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Fiona Marshall
   2. Adam Gordon
   3. John R. F. Gladman
   4. Simon Bishop

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

9. Nasopharyngeal Microbial Communities of Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 That Developed COVID-19

   This article has 13 authors:

   1. Maria Paz Ventero
   2. Rafael R. C. Cuadrat
   3. Inmaculada Vidal
   4. Bruno G. N. Andrade
   5. Carmen Molina-Pardines
   6. Jose M. Haro-Moreno
   7. Felipe H. Coutinho
   8. Esperanza Merino
   9. Luciana C. A. Regitano
   10. Cynthia B. Silveira
   11. Haithem Afli
   12. Mario López-Pérez
   13. Juan Carlos Rodríguez

   Reviewed by ScreenIT

10. On the track of the D839Y mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike fusion peptide: emergence and geotemporal spread of a highly prevalent variant in Portugal

    This article has 14 authors:

    1. Vítor Borges
    2. Joana Isidro
    3. Helena Cortes-Martins
    4. Sílvia Duarte
    5. Luís Vieira
    6. Ricardo Leite
    7. Isabel Gordo
    8. Constantino P. Caetano
    9. Baltazar Nunes
    10. Regina Sá
    11. Ana Oliveira
    12. Raquel Guiomar
    13. João Paulo Gomes
    14. Portuguese network for SARS-CoV-2 genomics

    Reviewed by ScreenIT