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ArticleClinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.)2020

Racial disparity in Covid-19 mortality rates - A plausible explanation.

Yuval Tal, Avner Adini, Alal Eran, Irit Adini

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Article in Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 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

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

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  13. Predicting Negative and Positive Affect During COVID-19: A Daily Diary Study in Youths.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2021
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  16. COVID-19 and geographical area of origin.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  19. On the genetics and immunopathogenesis of COVID-19.Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yuval TalAllergy and Clinical Immunology Unit and Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Medical Center, Outpatient building 7(th) floor, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel. Electronic address: yuvalt@hadassah.org.il.
Avner AdiniInstructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Karp Research Building, 11th Floor 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America. Electronic address: avner.adini@childrens.harvard.edu.
Alal EranDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: alal_eran@hms.harvard.edu.
Irit AdiniDepartment of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, The Center for Engineering in Medicine, Mass General Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Room 246, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: iadini@mgh.harvard.edu.

Funding

Elucidation of the Regulation of Angiogenesis by Melanocytes in Age Related Macular DegenerationR01EY024046 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ADINI, IRIT · 2017 to 2021
$2.0M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PandemicsAnimalsBetacoronavirusBlack or African AmericanCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Cytokine Release SyndromeCytokinesDendritic CellsDisease Models, AnimalDisease SusceptibilityGene Expression RegulationHumansImmunity, InnateMelanocytesMiceCytokines

Identifiers

PMID32473354
PMCPMC7253967

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