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ReviewPaediatric respiratory reviews2020

Modelling insights into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Michael T Meehan, Diana P Rojas, Adeshina I Adekunle, Oyelola A Adegboye, Jamie M Caldwell, Evelyn Turek, Bridget M Williams, Ben J Marais, James M Trauer, Emma S McBryde

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Review in Paediatric respiratory reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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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

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Public Opinion on European Health Policy, Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Michael T MeehanAustralian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia.
Diana P RojasCollege of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Australia.
Adeshina I AdekunleAustralian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia.
Oyelola A AdegboyeAustralian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia.
Jamie M CaldwellDepartment of Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States of America.
Evelyn TurekEpidemiological Modelling Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia.
Bridget M WilliamsEpidemiological Modelling Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia.
Ben J MaraisThe Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
James M TrauerEpidemiological Modelling Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia.
Emma S McBrydeAustralian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia. Electronic address: emma.mcbryde@jcu.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly emerged infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March, 2020. Response to this ongoing pandemic requires extensive collaboration across the scientific community in an attempt to contain its impact and limit further transmission. Mathematical modelling has been at the forefront of these response efforts by: (1) providing initial estimates of the SARS-CoV-2 reproduction rate, R

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Decision MakingModels, TheoreticalPublic HealthBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Data CollectionHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Severity of Illness IndexCOVID-19Emerging infectious diseasesMathematical modellingPandemicReview

Identifiers

PMID32680824
PMCPMC7305515

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