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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Speed and strength of an epidemic intervention.

Jonathan Dushoff, Sang Woo Park

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing 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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Doubling time of infectious diseases.Journal of theoretical biology · 2022
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  13. Are epidemic growth rates more informative than reproduction numbers?Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society) · 2022
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  15. Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jonathan DushoffDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Sang Woo ParkDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An epidemic can be characterized by its strength (i.e., the reproductive number [Formula: see text]) and speed (i.e., the exponential growth rate

Indexed as

COVID-19EpidemicsHIV InfectionsHumansSARS-CoV-2Uncertaintyexponential growth ratemathematical epidemiologyreproductive numberspeed and strength

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PMID33757359
PMCPMC8059560

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