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ArticleBMJ global health2020

Bridging a false dichotomy in the COVID-19 response: a public health approach to the 'lockdown' debate.

Vandana Prasad, B Subha Sri, Rakhal Gaitonde

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Article in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

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

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  15. COVID-19 and the social distribution of hunger in three Caribbean Small Island Developing States.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Vandana PrasadPublic Health Resource Network, New Delhi, India.
B Subha SriCommonHealth, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Rakhal GaitondeAchutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India rakhal.gaitonde@sctimst.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0003-4046-8380

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsDisaster PlanningInfection ControlPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPublic HealthBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansRight to HealthRisk AssessmentSARS-CoV-2Social Determinants of HealthSocioeconomic Factorscontrol strategieshealth policypublic health

Identifiers

PMID32527850
PMCPMC7292046

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