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ArticleeLife2021

A comprehensive look at the COVID-19 pandemic death toll.

Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing 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

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Critical care and pandemic preparedness and response.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023
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  8. STING agonist-loaded mesoporous manganese-silica nanoparticles for vaccine applications.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lone SimonsenPandemiX Center, Institute of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-1535-8526
Cecile ViboudFogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3243-4711

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 'excess mortality' has been estimated for more than 100 countries and shows a dramatic death toll in many countries.

Indexed as

COVID-19HumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2COVIDdataepidemiologyglobal healthhumaninternationalmortality

Identifiers

PMID34382937
PMCPMC8360646

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