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ReviewThe Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2023

An overview of COVID-19 global epidemiology and discussion of potential drivers of variable global pandemic impacts.

Polly Ashmore, Emma Sherwood

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Review in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing 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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Polly AshmoreHealth Education England, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5013-423X
Emma SherwoodHealth Education England, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With a WHO-estimated excess mortality burden of 14.9 million over the course of 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major human impact so far. It has also affected a range of disciplines, systems and practices from mathematical modelling to behavioural sciences, pharmaceutical development to health system management. This article explores these developments and, to set the scene, this paper summarizes the global epidemiology of COVID-19 from January 2020 to June 2021 and considers some potential drivers of variation.

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COVID-19HumansModels, TheoreticalPandemics

Identifiers

PMID37995358
PMCPMC10666997

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Registered trials

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