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ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of COVID-19: a political and public health dilemma.

Brian McCloskey, Alimuddin Zumla, Giuseppe Ippolito, Lucille Blumberg, Paul Arbon, Anita Cicero, Tina Endericks, Poh Lian Lim, Maya Borodina, WHO Novel Coronavirus-19 Mass Gatherings Expert Group

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 149 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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149citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

149 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Brian McCloskeyCentre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London SW1Y 4LE, UK. Electronic address: bmccloskey@chathamhouse.org.
Alimuddin ZumlaDivision of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Giuseppe IppolitoNational Institute for Infectious Diseases-Lazzaro Spallanzani-IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Lucille BlumbergNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Paul ArbonFlinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Anita CiceroJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Tina EndericksPublic Health England, London, UK.
Poh Lian LimNational Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
Maya BorodinaAcademy of Postgraduate Education, Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
WHO Novel Coronavirus-19 Mass Gatherings Expert Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPublic HealthSocial BehaviorBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Global HealthHumansInfection ControlPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32203693
PMCPMC7138150

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