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ArticleThe Journal of infection2020

Evaluation on different non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of 139 countries.

Martin Cs Wong, Junjie Huang, Jeremy Teoh, Sunny H Wong

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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 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing 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

25 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.

Martin Cs WongJC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Junjie HuangJC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Electronic address: junjie_huang@link.cuhk.edu.hk.
Jeremy TeohOffice of Global Engagement, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Sunny H WongDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSevere Acute Respiratory SyndromeBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansLondonSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32579981
PMCPMC7306102

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