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ArticleNature2021

Burden and characteristics of COVID-19 in the United States during 2020.

Sen Pei, Teresa K Yamana, Sasikiran Kandula, Marta Galanti, Jeffrey Shaman

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 107 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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107citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

107 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sen PeiDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. sp3449@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7072-2995
Teresa K YamanaDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Sasikiran KandulaDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Marta GalantiDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9060-1250
Jeffrey ShamanDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. jls106@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7216-7809

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems and economies throughout the world during 2020 and was particularly devastating for the United States, which experienced the highest numbers of reported cases and deaths during 2020

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SARS-CoV-2Basic Reproduction NumberCalibrationCost of IllnessCOVID-19HumansIncidencePandemicsPrevalenceUnited States

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