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ArticleThe Journal of infection2021

Letter in response to article in journal of infection: Impact of routine infant BCG vaccination on COVID-19.

Miriam Levi, Alessandro Miglietta, Gianpaolo Romeo, Simone Bartolacci, Filippo Ariani, Francesco Cipriani, Carlotta De Filippo, Duccio Cavalieri, Daniela Balzi

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Miriam LeviEpidemiology Unit, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy. Electronic address: miriam.levi@uslcentro.toscana.it.
Alessandro MigliettaEpidemiology Unit, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy.
Gianpaolo RomeoEpidemiology Unit, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy.
Simone BartolacciEpidemiologic observatory, Regional Health Agency of Tuscany, Via Pietro Dazzi 1, 50124, Florence, Italy.
Filippo ArianiEpidemiology Unit, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy.
Francesco CiprianiEpidemiology Unit, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy.
Carlotta De FilippoInstitute of Agriculture Biology and Biotechnology, National Research Council (CNR), Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Duccio CavalieriDepartment of Biology, University of Florence, Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino, (FI), Italy.
Daniela BalziEpidemiology Unit, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy.
Deleted InstitutionUniversity of Florence · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BCG VaccineCOVID-19HumansInfantSARS-CoV-2VaccinationBCG Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID33248221
PMCPMC7688417
OpenAlexW3109939932

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.