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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

Prevalence and fatality rates of COVID-19: What are the reasons for the wide variations worldwide?

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq, Roberto Leonardi, Gino Fasoli, Daniele Rigamonti

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Article in Travel medicine and infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 3 of them syntheses 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

40 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

4 authors.

Jaffar A Al-TawfiqSpecialty Internal Medicine and Quality Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Indiana University School of Medicine, IN, USA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: jaffar.tawfiq@jhah.com.
Roberto LeonardiDepartment of Medicine, Spedali Civili, Brescia, USA.
Gino FasoliSolo Practitioner, Primary Care Physician, Brescia, Italy.
Daniele RigamontiNeurosurgery Departement, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsInpatientsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAdultBetacoronavirusChinaCOVID-19HumansPrevalenceRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32360326
PMCPMC7188640

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