COVID-19 R0: Magic number or conundrum?

What it found

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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.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

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

1. Biomedical application, drug delivery and metabolic pathway of antiviral nanotherapeutics for combating viral pandemic: A review.Environmental research · 2020
   Pooled it
2. Modeling and Simulation of the Role of Mass Testing in Controlling COVID-19.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2026
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3. The Branching Process: A General Conceptual Framework for Addressing Current Ecological and Evolutionary Questions.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
   Review
4. The Global Impact of COVID-19: A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Effects on Various Aspects of Life.Toxicology research · 2024
   Review
5. Staying Ahead of the Game: How SARS-CoV-2 has Accelerated the Application of Machine Learning in Pandemic Management.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2023
   Review
6. Correcting the reproduction number for time-varying tests: A proposal and an application to COVID-19 in France.PloS one · 2023
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7. Backcasting COVID-19: a physics-informed estimate for early case incidence.Royal Society open science · 2022
   Article
8. Blockchain solution benefits for controlling pandemics: Bottom-up decentralization, automation with real-time update, and immutability with privacy preservation.Computers & industrial engineering · 2022
   Article
9. Methods of optical spectroscopy in detection of virus in infected samples: A review.Heliyon · 2022
   Review
10. Antimicrobial Resistance Development Pathways in Surface Waters and Public Health Implications.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Review
11. Modeling economic losses and greenhouse gas emissions reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Past, present, and future scenarios for Italy.Economic modelling · 2022
    Article
12. Predicting the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in USA.Globalization and health · 2022
    Article
13. Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra.PloS one · 2022
    Article
14. A comparative study on the three calculation methods for reproduction numbers of COVID-19.Frontiers in medicine · 2022
    Article
15. Epidemic size, trend and spatiotemporal mapping of SARS-CoV-2 using geographical information system in Alborz Province, Iran.BMC infectious diseases · 2021
    Article
16. RHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021
    Review
17. The low contagiousness and new A958D mutation of SARS-CoV-2 in children: An observational cohort study.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
    Observational
18. COVID-19: why not learn from the past?Frontiers of medicine · 2021
    Article
19. Intent to Vaccinate SARS-CoV-2 Infected Children in US Households: A Survey.Vaccines · 2021
    Article
20. The impact of social distancing, contact tracing, and case isolation interventions to suppress the COVID-19 epidemic: A modeling study.Epidemics · 2021
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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