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ArticleJAMA internal medicine2023

What Really Happened During the Massive SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Wave in China?

John P A Ioannidis, Francesco Zonta, Michael Levitt

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Article in JAMA internal medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing 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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. China's post-zero-COVID Omicron wave: A Bayesian analysis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Flaws and uncertainties in pandemic global excess death calculations.European journal of clinical investigation · 2023
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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

3 authors.

John P A IoannidisMeta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Francesco ZontaShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Michael LevittDepartment of Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Funding

Emergent Properties of Complex Systems: From Atoms to Macromolecules; from Humans to SocietiesR35GM122543 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL LEVITT · 2017 to 2026
$5.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122543
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2ChinaHumans

Identifiers

PMID37184847
PMCPMC10404134

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