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ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

No time for dilemma: mass gatherings must be suspended.

Ziad A Memish, Qanta A Ahmed, Patricia Schlagenhauf, Seydou Doumbia, Anas Khan

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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 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ziad A MemishResearch & Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health and College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 12746, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.
Qanta A AhmedDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, NYU-Winthrop, NYU Langone, Mineola, NY, USA.
Patricia SchlagenhaufUniversity of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Department of Public and Global Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, Zürich, Switzerland.
Seydou DoumbiaFaculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology, University Clinical Research Center, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, Mali.
Anas KhanGlobal Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsCrowdingPublic HealthBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPoliticsPublic PolicySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32240624
PMCPMC7146682

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