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ArticleScandinavian journal of public health2021

Is fighting against COVID-19 enough?

Walter Kofler, Oleg S Glazachev, Heidi Lyshol, Gunnar Tellnes

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Article in Scandinavian journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Walter KoflerMedical University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Oleg S GlazachevI.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Russia.
Heidi LysholDepartment of Health and Inequality, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-3135-5827
Gunnar TellnesDepartment of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-5823-9493

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tools of empirical epidemiology have been and are indispensable to focus political power on blocking the spreading of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by stopping transmission. The present paper is a comment on E. Gibney's article 'Whose coronavirus strategy worked best?' (

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Coronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19AgedGlobal HealthHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2community medicineCOVID-19health promotion and preventioninfectious diseasesNaCuHealNature-Culture-Healthpublic health

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PMID33176585
PMCPMC7859583

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