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ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

SARS-CoV-2 shedding and infectivity.

Barry Atkinson, Eskild Petersen

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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 83 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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83citing papers in PubMed, 7 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

83 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Reinfection in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review.Global health research and policy · 2022
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  7. Managing cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: an ESMO multidisciplinary expert consensus.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2020
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  19. Pediatric Rigid Bronchoscopy for Tracheobronchial Foreign Bodies in Covid Times: Short Personal Experience.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022
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  20. COVID-19 Testing Strategies for K-12 Schools in California: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Barry AtkinsonNational Collection of Pathogenic Viruses, Public Health England, Salisbury, UK.
Eskild PetersenDirectorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman; European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Task Force for Emerging Infections, Basel, Switzerland; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: eskild.petersen@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPneumonia, ViralSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusAdultBetacoronavirusChinaCOVID-19HumansInpatientsPandemicsRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32304647
PMCPMC7159877

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