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ArticleSafety science2020

Prediction of CoVid-19 infection, transmission and recovery rates: A new analysis and global societal comparisons.

Romney B Duffey, Enrico Zio

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Article in Safety science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. COVID-19 Pandemic Risk Assessment: Systematic Review.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024
    Review
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  3. Behavioral biases and heuristics in perceptions of COVID-19 risks and prevention decisions.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2022
    Article
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  5. A systems-theoretic approach for two-stage emergency risk analysis.Journal of loss prevention in the process industries · 2021
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Romney B DuffeyIdaho Falls, ID, USA.
Enrico ZioCentre de Recherche sur les Risques et les Crises (CRC), MINES ParisTech/PSL Université Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France.
Kyung Hee University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We analyze the process of infection rate growth and decline for the recent global pandemic, applying a new method to the available global data. We describe and utilize an original approach based on statistical physics to predict the societal transmission timescale and the universal recovery trajectory resulting from the countermeasures implemented in entire societies. We compare the whole-society infection growth rates for many countries and local regions, to illustrate the common physical and mathematical basis for the viral spread and infection rate reduction, and validate the theory and resulting correlations. We show that methods traditionally considered for the numerical analysis and the control of individual virus transmission (e.g. ℜ

Indexed as

CoVid-19Infection rateLearning TheoryPandemic riskUniversal Recovery Curve

Identifiers

PMID32518471
PMCPMC7254020
OpenAlexW3030568599

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Registered trials

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