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ArticleEnvironmental chemistry letters2021

Should we discount the laboratory origin of COVID-19?

Rossana Segreto, Yuri Deigin, Kevin McCairn, Alejandro Sousa, Dan Sirotkin, Karl Sirotkin, Jonathan J Couey, Adrian Jones, Daoyu Zhang

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Article in Environmental chemistry letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. There is no "origin" to SARS-CoV-2.Environmental research · 2022
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  9. The SARS-CoV-2 origin dilemma: Zoonotic transfer or laboratory leak?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2022
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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

9 authors.

Rossana SegretoDepartment of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Yuri DeiginYouthereum Genetics Inc, Toronto, ON Canada.
Kevin McCairnSynaptek - Deep Learning Solutions, Gifu, Japan.
Alejandro SousaRegional Hospital of Monforte, Lugo, Spain.
Dan SirotkinKarl Sirotkin LLC, Lake Mary, FL 32746 USA.
Karl SirotkinKarl Sirotkin LLC, Lake Mary, FL 32746 USA.
Jonathan J CoueyUniversity of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.
Adrian JonesIndependent Bioinformatics Researcher, Melbourne, Australia.
Daoyu ZhangIndependent Genetics Researcher, Sydney, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID33786037
PMCPMC7993900

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