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ArticleThe Journal of infection2020

Flattening-the-curve associated with reduced COVID-19 case fatality rates- an ecological analysis of 65 countries.

Chris Kenyon

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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57citing 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

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

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  3. Recommendations for the Operation of Endoscopy Centers in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic - World Endoscopy Organization guidance document.Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2020
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  14. Self-poisonings before and during the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic in northern Poland.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2022
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  20. Is Environmental Pollution Associated with an Increased Number of COVID-19 Cases in Europe?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Chris KenyonHIV/STI Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; Division of Infectious, Diseases and HIV Medicine, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory 7700, South Africa. Electronic address: ckenyon@itg.be.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPneumonia, ViralCOVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Case fatality rateCOVID-19EpidemiologyFlattening the curvePreventionSars cov-2

Identifiers

PMID32305488
PMCPMC7162747

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Registered trials

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