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ArticleeLife2022

Estimation and worldwide monitoring of the effective reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2.

Jana S Huisman, Jérémie Scire, Daniel C Angst, Jinzhou Li, Richard A Neher, Marloes H Maathuis, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Tanja Stadler

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Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

56 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jana S Huisman *Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1782-8109
Jérémie Scire *Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Daniel C AngstDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6512-4595
Jinzhou LiDepartment of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Richard A NeherSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2525-1407
Marloes H MaathuisDepartment of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sebastian Bonhoeffer *Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8052-3925
Tanja Stadler *Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6431-535X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effective reproductive number

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Basic Reproduction NumberEuropeHumansPandemicsepidemiologyglobal healthhumaninfectious diseasemicrobiologypublic health surveillancereproductive numberSARS-CoV-2viruses

Identifiers

PMID35938911
PMCPMC9467515

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