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ArticleInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2020

Li Wenliang, a face to the frontline healthcare worker. The first doctor to notify the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2, (COVID-19), outbreak.

Eskild Petersen, David Hui, Davidson H Hamer, Lucille Blumberg, Lawrence C Madoff, Marjorie Pollack, Shui Shan Lee, Susan McLellan, Ziad Memish, Ira Praharaj and 8 more

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Article in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Eskild PetersenDirectorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman; European Sociaty for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: eskild.petersen@gmail.com.
David HuiDepartment of Medicine & Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
Davidson H HamerDepartment of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Lucille BlumbergNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, A Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lawrence C MadoffInternational Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA; University of Massachusetts, Division of Infectious Diseases, Worcester, MA, USA.
Marjorie PollackInternational Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA.
Shui Shan LeeStanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.
Susan McLellanBiocontainment Treatment Unit, Biosafety for Research-Related Infectious Pathogens, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
Ziad MemishResearch Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Ira PraharajIndian Council of Medical Research, Department of Health Research, New Delhi, India.
Sean WassermanDivision of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Francine NtoumiFondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale/Université Marien Ngouabi, Republic of Congo and Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Esam Ibraheem AzharKing Fahd Medical Research Center (KFMRC), Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Timothy D MchughCenter for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, United Kingdom.
Richard KockThe Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Guiseppe IppolitoNational Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Ali ZumlaCenter for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Marion KoopmansDepartment of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusAuthoritarianismBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPoliticsSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32142979
PMCPMC7129692

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