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ArticleLancet (London, England)2020

The COVID-19 syndemic is not global: context matters.

Emily Mendenhall

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58citing 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

58 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. An Update on Syndemics: Editorial Comments.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025
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  8. Towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Review
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  12. Observational
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  14. COVID-19, Mental Health, and Chronic Illnesses: A Syndemic Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
    Review
  15. Proposing a New Conceptual Syndemic Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
    Review
  16. Non-communicable Diseases Surveillance: Challenged by COVID-19.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2023
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  18. Undue burden: Black faculty, COVID-19, and the racial justice movement.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023
    Article
  19. "SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022
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  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Emily MendenhallScience, Technology, and International Affairs Program, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, 20057 DC, USA. Electronic address: em1061@georgetown.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID33256917
PMCPMC7581415

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