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ArticleInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2020

COVID-19 and the scaled-down 2020 Hajj Pilgrimage-Decisive, logical and prudent decision making by Saudi authorities overcomes pre-Hajj public health concerns.

Alimuddin Zumla, Esam I Azhar, Saleh Alqahtani, Shuja Shafi, Ziad A Memish

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Article in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alimuddin ZumlaDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.i.zumla@gmail.com.
Esam I AzharSpecial Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Medical Laboratory Sciences Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: eazhar@kau.edu.sa.
Saleh AlqahtaniDepartment of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: Salqaht1@jhmi.edu.
Shuja ShafiMass Gatherings and Global Health Network, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: msshafi12@gmail.com.
Ziad A MemishResearch & Innovation Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, and College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID32771631
PMCPMC7409790

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