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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264183

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264183: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethical issues: The Ethics Committee of Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens approved the study protocol (reference number; 370, 02-09-2021).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Our study has a number of limitations. First, we used a convenience sample that is not representative of the general population in Greece. For instance, educational level of our parents is higher than that of the general population. Also, we collected information through social media and parents without social media accounts could not participate in our study. Thus, generalization of our results should be made cautiously. Second, we conducted a cross-sectional study but the situation regarding the COVID-19 vaccination programmes, the dynamic of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated policy measures is changing fast. It is therefore necessary to carry out further studies as soon as possible. Indeed, it would be better to carry out prospective studies in order to observe parents’ attitudes over time. Third, since our study was anonymous through social media, we cannot calculate the response rate and we cannot be aware of the profile of parents who refused to participate in the study. Thus, a selection bias is possible since parents who denied to participate in our study might have a different profile as compared to parents that participate. Fourth, the study questionnaire was self-reported and data verification was not feasible. For instance, parents may overestimate their vaccine acceptability due to social desirability. Moreover, we self-constructed some items in our study (e.g. self-perceived severity and knowledge, trust, etc.). Thus, an information bias mig...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264240

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.28.21264240: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, our definitions of contact may miss certain transmission routes, e.g., connections via healthcare workers35,36, indirect transmission over surfaces, undetected patient carriage37, or non-room/ward/building contact. Second, since our training and testing period occurred largely prior to the UK’s vaccination rollout, we were unable to include vaccination status as a patient variable. However, the emergence of new variants and lack of complete vaccine coverage38 means that the assumption of susceptibility is still relevant, as demonstrated by our post-surge endemic data. Third, we did not include recovered COVID-19 patients in the HOCI prediction dataset because of limited cases and uncertainty regarding future susceptibility. Fourth, our data did not include indoor ventilation and room volume, which are recognised as contributory risks to COVID-19 transmission39. However, even without explicitly accounting for ventilation, our models still proved highly predictive. Finally, in response to the pandemic, various aspects of hospital organisation were altered, including changes in screening practice, personal protective equipment, or placing of ward beds, which were not explicitly encoded as model variables. Our study highlights the predictive power that can be mined from networks of patient contacts to aid with personalised predictions of infectious disease in healthcare settings. The current study applies to respiratory virus transmission...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264172

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264172: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21263801

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.28.21263801: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.2.3 Occupancy and area of different points of interest from SafeGraph data: Two of the important inputs in the simulation are the areas of different points of interests (POI) and the number of people occupying them during each time period of interest.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SafeGraph</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21262976

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.28.21262976: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Samples were processed in random order in two replicates.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Summary statistics describing read length, error rate, total number of reads, number of reads mapped and other quality metrics were generated using samtools stats.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Following previous publications (Hourdel et al. 2020; Paden et al. 2020), positions with coverage less than or equal to 30X were marked as ‘N’ in the consensus genome sequence using bedtools maskfasta.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bedtools</div><div>suggested: (BEDTools, RRID:SCR_006646)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264013

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264013: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: All participants provided written informed consent and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Yokohama City University (<br>IRB: All participants provided written informed consent and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Yokohama City University (</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The primary endpoints of this study were NT50 and titers of antibodies against NP and SP antigens at 20–32 weeks (visit 1) and 46– 58 weeks (visit 2) after the first positive SARS-CoV-2 test results.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibodies against NP</div><div>suggested: (Novus Cat# NBP1-00943, RRID:AB_1503763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For the neutralizing assay, VeroTM cells seeded in 96-well plates were washed and infected with 100 µL of medium containing authentic SARS-CoV-2 (moi = 0.05) and five-fold serially diluted serum (1:50–1:31,250 dilution).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroTM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical Analysis: All statistical analysis was performed using Prism v8.3.1 (GraphPad) and R version 4.0.3 (R, Foundation for Statistical Computing).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264202

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264202: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  However, we must acknowledge some limitations. Firstly, the uncertainty ranges communicated in our messages were all drawn from existing reports. While this provides some ecological validity, it did mean we were not able to control for the magnitude of the range presented across some conditions. Previous research suggests people may be less trusting of uncertainty presented as a very large numeric range (Kreps & Kriner, 2020; van der Bles et al., 2020). More research is needed to identify the effect of range magnitude and how this varies across contexts. Secondly, Studies 2 and 3 were only conducted in UK samples. As shown in Study 1, there is between-country variation in how people respond to uncertainty. Therefore, we cannot confidently generalize our UK findings to other national contexts. Future research should seek to replicate these findings with other countries as well as investigating possible explanations for the variation seen in Study 1. Lastly, the types of uncertainty we examined in the current research were narrowly defined. Thus, our findings may not map onto to other forms or formats of uncertainty. For example, statistical uncertainty could be expressed visually—rather than as numerals—and the existence of unquantified uncertainty could be phrased in a multitude of different ways. Uncertainty can also be further attributed to different sources, with potentially differing impacts. For example, claims could be accompanied by statements about uncertainty due to ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264086

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264086: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The data was extracted to select COVID-19 patients confirmed through laboratorial tests performed by molecular (RT-PCR) or immunological diagnostic (screening for antibodies or antigens).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antigens) .</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analyses were performed using Python (version 3.7.10), the statistical package scipy (version 1.4.1) and the epidemiological package epipy (version 0.0.2.1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>scipy</div><div>suggested: (SciPy, RRID:SCR_008058)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  We acknowledge some limitations in our study. First, the SIVEP-Gripe database contains only individual information of hospitalized severe acute respiratory illness patients, not informing the daily number of infection cases in each federative unit and the respective outcomes. Therefore, we limit ourselves to analyzing data from hospitalized patients. Second, we include all patients who have been diagnosed for COVID-19 by different methods and not just by RT-PCR, since the immunological diagnosis is predominant in several federative units, due to the difficulties of carrying out tests that are more expensive. Third, we did not investigate the causes of increased hospitalization and mortality for COVID-19 patients aged 20-59 years, since this was not the main objective of the study and, in addition, there is not enough data to prove, for example, higher variant P.1 lethality. Due to the limited vaccines availability, the vast majority of countries initially chose to vaccinate the elderly, who are more susceptible to severe COVID-19. Therefore, while there is not enough vaccine for everyone, NPIs are extremely important to contain the infection and spread of the disease among young adults, who are more exposed mainly due to work and economic needs. At the time of preparation of this report, there is a forecast of a third wave in the Amazonas state, which serves as an alert for the entire country. Cases number stabilization at high levels, as we have seen in this second wave with...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264166: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from individuals in these LTCFs and where individuals were assessed as lacking capacity to consent, a nominated or personal consultee acted on their behalf.<br>IRB: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the South Central—Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee (20/SC/0238).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Time to antibody-loss: Time to antibody-loss was estimated in individuals that who could be linked to a pseudo-identifier and had at least two eligible samples separated by more than four weeks.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-loss</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The date of sero-reversion was the mid-point between last antibody-positive and first antibody-negative test.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-negative test.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Date of sero-reversion followed the definitions outlined above according to the Abbott assay.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical analyses were performed in STATA version 16·0, with weighting and clustering acknowledged using the complex survey functions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  In common with other serological studies, our study highlights the limitations of estimating the prevalence of natural infection based on antibody titres against nucleocapsid protein. 25 Direct comparison of seroprevalence estimates between studies and countries is challenging due to variation in the timing of pandemic waves and waning immunity. The largest published prevalence study to date included over 9,000 LTCF residents from 362 LTCFs in Madrid and reported that 55·4% of residents had detectable anti-nucleocapsid antibodies following the first wave of the pandemic (June to Nov 2020), however as these estimates were unweighted and the study was limited to one region, this may not be generalisable to the national prevalence of infection.26 In England, national surveillance data from 14 June-11 July 2021 report 16·6 % weighted nucleocapsid antibody prevalence in the general population, lowest in the 70-84 age group.12 These estimates are based on samples from blood donors in the community where infection rates were likely to be lower than in LTCFs, particularly over the first pandemic wave.2 Our study also found lower seroprevalence in Independent LTCFs when compared with For-Profit chains and in larger vs smaller LTCFs, which have been widely described as risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 transmission. 1,27 Our study makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of evidence of rapid waning of nucleocapsid antibody titres following natural infection across age groups, which pr...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ISRCTN14447421</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264003: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: An institutional review board (IRB) approval was obtained from National Institute of Health (NIH).<br>Consent: A consent form was developed and translated into local language for the purpose of enabling the respondents to understand their autonomous right to decide to participate in the study and announcing the beneficence and justice rendered in the study 15.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">” Using a systematic random sampling approach, a sampling interval was calculated by dividing the total number of households by number of households allocated per village/sector.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sample size was equally divided between rural (n=31, 49%), and urban (n=13, 51%) union councils for equal representation of both populations where urban UCs contain sectors and rural UCs contain villages in them.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: Data was coded to mask identities of respondents, double entered, validated and password protected at central office.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264121: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CovRNN also consumes the time difference between visits for a better temporal representation of patient history, which is known to slightly improve the prediction accuracy.18,19 For binary classification tasks, we compared CovRNN against traditional machine learning algorithms, such as logistic regression (LR)20 and light gradient boost machine (LGBM).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CovRNN</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, our data analysis includes only retrospective data. Despite our efforts to avoid potential bias by separating training, validation, and test datasets as well as external validation on a different data source, potential biases are inevitable. A prospective validation study is warranted, ideally, in hospitals that did not participate in data sharing with the database that we used to secure the validation of transferability. Second, our model focused only on the admission data to predict in-hospital clinical outcomes. It is possible to use multiple time points during the hospital stay to update models to achieve “real-time” predictions. Because minimal data preprocessing is required, our model can be easily modified to use different data points to predict future clinical outcomes. Third, we performed only a preliminary evaluation for the model predictions explanations, whereby we extracted data from 20 random sample patients and presented their predicted risk scores as well as the contribution score assigned for each medical event and asked infectious disease specialists to evaluate its relevance. Although we acknowledge that this is not a rigorous evaluation method, it demonstrated that our proposed model provides the tool that allows model transparency and helps to engage clinicians and facilitate their judgment on the model predictions. Future work is warranted to systematically evaluate the model’s transparency. Fourth, the dynamics ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.28.21264259: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: The Human Research Committee of Mass General-Brigham granted a waiver of informed consent requirement for this research protocol under 45 CFR 46.116, as only secondary use of data generated by routine clinical care was required.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  On the other hand, capture of outcomes is less reliable than that afforded by prospective cohort studies, even though both designs pose limitations as participants are not uniformly observed and data are not missing at random. We present analyses of concomitant medications as a means of understanding potential risk factors for persistence of neuropsychiatric symptoms, but such results must be interpreted with caution. Some of these likely represent markers of preexisting neuropsychiatric symptoms – for example, guanfacine and clonidine are often used in children for treatment of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, and escitalopram for depression or anxiety. Others may indicate more severe acute illness, including dexamethasone, or treatment of comorbidity during COVID-19 illness, such as metronidazole. More broadly, all such data underscore that electronic health records reflect patterns of clinical service, not regular systematic assessment – so, for example, individuals with closer follow-up for other reasons may be more likely to have neuropsychiatric symptoms documented. (For further consideration of the impact of missing data in electronic health records, see Haneuse[23]). While not a focus of this effort, the likelihood of residual confounding highlights the limitations of efforts to identify medications with off-target effects for repositioning. Despite these challenges, more precise estimates of prevalence will be important in facilitating conversations about ri...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.28.461924: (What is this?)
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics statement and data availability: This project was performed in the Clinical and Biomedical Research Institute of Alicante (ISABIAL), under the written approval of the Ethics Committee of Clinical Research with Drugs (in Spanish, CEIm) of the General University Hospital of Alicante (Ref CEIm approval: PI2020-052).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Of the 1526 patients hospitalised in the study period, nasopharyngeal samples from 324 patients were randomly processed and preserved.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The V3 and V4 region from 16S rRNA gene were amplified by PCR, and then the fragments obtained were sequenced in the MiSeq system with V3 reagents (600 cycle, 2×300bp).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MiSeq</div><div>suggested: (A5-miseq, RRID:SCR_012148)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The taxonomy was assigned using the SILVA Database (Release 132) [22].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SILVA</div><div>suggested: (SILVA, RRID:SCR_006423)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Multiple logistic regression models adjusted for age, gender, and comorbidity were built to evaluate the association between microbiota diversity indexes or the differentially represented genus (obtained by DESeq2) with the primary outcomes, and the odds ratios (OR) with the 95%CI were estimated.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IBM SPSS Statistics v25 (Armonk, NY) was used for the analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations, this was an observational, retrospective, single-centre study, and collection of data was not standardized in advance. The sample size and the absence of differences in the characteristics of the global cohort of patients admitted to our hospital during the duration of the study reinforce the present data. Multiple factors can condition changes in microbiota, including the use of antibiotics. Nonetheless, the design of the statistical analysis adjusted for the use of antibiotic therapy in the 3 months prior to the inclusion of the study, allowing us to limit this bias. The exclusion of these patients from the study would have greatly limited the external validity of our results. Finally, the 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing approach to study the microbiota could introduce bias in the obtained data because this method does not allow the study of the whole microbiome, but only the genera amplified by PCR. Nevertheless, it is the most common technique to study microbiota in clinical samples. Moreover, the microbiota bioinformatics analysis has not been standardized yet, which hampered comparison interpretations of our results. In summary, the higher diversity found in patients without IMV or a fatal outcome, together with the presence of certain genera in the nasopharyngeal microbiota, seemed to be an early biomarker of a favourable clinical evolution in a cohort of Mediterranean hospitalised patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our finding...
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  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Fab/Fc ELISA: 96-well plates (Corning, 3690) were coated with goat anti-human Fc IgG antibody at 3 μg/mL overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human Fc IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary antibody, goat-anti-human-Fc-AP, was added at 1:1000 dilution in blocking buffer and incubated for 1 h at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>goat-anti-human-Fc-AP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Biotinylated Spike or RBD were expressed in 1L of HEK293F cells (Invitrogen) at a density of 1.5 × 106 cells/mL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293F</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 pseudotyped virus preparation: Pseudotyped HIV-1 virus incorporating either the SARS-Cov-2 Wuhan, B.1.1.7, P.1, B.1.351, B.1.617.2 full-length Spike were produced in a 10 cm dish seeded the day prior with 5×106 HEK293T/17 cells in 10 mL of complete Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM-C, 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% Pen/Strep (100 IU/mL penicillin and 100 mg/mL streptomycin)).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T/17</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# CRL-11268, RRID:CVCL_1926)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gibson assembly products were directly transfected into HEK-293T cells and transformed under ampicillin selection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T</div><div>suggested: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 1018, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IgG expression and purification: Ab heavy and light plasmids were co-transfected at a 1:1 ratio into HEK-293F cells (Thermofisher) using PEI Max (1 mg/mL, Polysciences, Inc.) at a 3:1 ratio (PEI Max:DNA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HeLa-ACE2 and HeLa cells were washed once with PBS and detached using PBS containing 5mM EDTA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300194/p772_HeLa, RRID:CVCL_0030)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Spike and RBD were cloned into a pHLsec vector containing Avi and 6xHis tags (Aricescu et al., 2006).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHLsec</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PBMCs were stained with live/dead (fixable Aqua Dead, Thermofisher), anti-CD3-APC/Cy7 (Biolegend), anti-CD8-APC-Cy7 (Biolegend), anti-CD14-BV510 (Biolegend), anti-CD19-PerCP-Cy5.5 (Biolegend), anti-IgM-PE (Biolegend), anti-IgD-Pacific Blue (Biolegend) and anti-IgG-PeCy7 (BD) and Spike-Alexa488 (Thermofisher Scientific, S32354) and Spike-APC (Thermofisher Scientific, S32362) or RBD-Alexa488 and RBD-APC.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermofisher</div><div>suggested: (ThermoFisher; SL 8; Centrifuge, RRID:SCR_020809)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">D’Agostino & Pearson normality test, Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s multiple comparisons post hoc test, Ordinary one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons post hoc test and two-sided binomial tests) were performed using GraphPad Prism software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations of study: This study only examines mAbs isolated from one individual and therefore how representative these mAbs are of the humoral immune response against AZD1222 needs to be investigated further.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: All donors signed informed consent forms approved by the Ethical Committee of the Santa Lucia Foundation.<br>IRB: All donors signed informed consent forms approved by the Ethical Committee of the Santa Lucia Foundation.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To avoid gender and age biases, an equal number of female and male volunteers, as well as an equal number of subjects 22-45 and 45-66 years old, was included.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Evaluation of anti SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies: The measurement of anti SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing Abs was performed by electrochemiluminescence sandwich immunoassay (ECLIA) through Roche Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S (Roche diagnostics, Switzerland).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antibodies</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometry staining and acquisition: Post-culture cells were pelleted in V-bottom 96-well plates and resuspended in 30 μl of antibodies at pre-optimized concentrations and diluted in Brilliant Stain Buffer (BD Biosciences), then incubated for 15’ at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Biosciences</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences, RRID:SCR_013311)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data was analyzed with FlowJo v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Statistical analysis was performed with GraphPad Prism 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.461855: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To determine the predominant signatures being active in LUAD samples, we started with the initial sample exposures to mutational signatures from [24] (Synapse accession number: syn11804065).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Synapse</div><div>suggested: (Synapse, RRID:SCR_006307)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Signature SBS45 was omitted from the analyses presented in this study as this signature is likely an artefact due to 8-oxo-guanine introduced during sequencing (see COSMIC Mutational Signatures website: https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/signatures/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>COSMIC Mutational Signatures</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Expression data: TCGA LUAD RNAseq expression data were obtained from the Genomic Data Commons Data Portal (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/) on June 5th, 2020.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/</div><div>suggested: (Genomic Data Commons Data Portal (GDC Data Portal, RRID:SCR_014514)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HTseq counts were normalized and variance-stabilizing transformed (vst) using DESeq2 [63].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HTseq</div><div>suggested: (HTSeq, RRID:SCR_005514)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">1, 2 In brief, CDC partnered with three commercial laboratories to test a random sample of residual sera submitted for routine clinical testing for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies using one of three commercial assays authorized under EUA: Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Assay (N protein; Roche, Indianapolis, IN) and ARCHITECT™ SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay (N protein; Abbott, Chicago, IL), both targeting the viral N protein, and VITROS® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay (spike (S) protein; Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ) targeting the viral spike protein.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">From February to May 2021, when COVID-19 vaccination was becoming more widely available, all serum specimens from states included in this analysis were tested for either pan-immunoglobulin (Ig) (Roche Elecsys) or IgG-specific (Abbott ARCHITECT) anti-nucleocapsid antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>either pan-immunoglobulin (Ig) (Roche Elecsys)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-nucleocapsid</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">1, 2 In brief, CDC partnered with three commercial laboratories to test a random sample of residual sera submitted for routine clinical testing for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies using one of three commercial assays authorized under EUA: Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Assay (N protein; Roche, Indianapolis, IN) and ARCHITECT™ SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay (N protein; Abbott, Chicago, IL), both targeting the viral N protein, and VITROS® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay (spike (S) protein; Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ) targeting the viral spike protein.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee of the University of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil (CAAE:31656420.0.0000.5231) and all of the participants and their giardians were informed in detail about the research and gave written informed consent.<br>Consent: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee of the University of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil (CAAE:31656420.0.0000.5231) and all of the participants and their giardians were informed in detail about the research and gave written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Patients of both sexes who were over the age of eighteen were eligible.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">High sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) levels were assayed using turbidimetry (Architect C8000, Abbott Laboratory, Abbott Park, IL, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott Laboratory</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IBM SPSS Windows version 25, 2017 was used for statistical analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: It would have been more informative if we had measured NLRP3 cytokines such as IL-1β and IL-18, and caspase 1.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT00341003</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Completed</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Severe Malaria and Anti-malarial Drug Resistance in Cambodia</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT00663546</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Completed</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Malaria Studies in Cambodia</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT01350856</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Completed</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin (TRAC)</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Given sample size limitations, limited variation in some policy adoption, and temporal variation in the progression of COVID-19 to death, we are limited in our ability to attribute deviations in daily death counts to specific policy actions. An additional consideration is that NPIs associated with decreasing case velocities but not associated with decreasing subsequent deaths may signal that case decreases occurred disproportionally among younger individuals with less risk for COVID-19 mortality. This may be particularly true for public mask mandates, which were significantly associated with decreased case but not mortality burden in adjusted models. Our modeling approach allowed us to evaluate the merits of various NPIs concomitantly in a time-dependent fashion. Prior NPI studies have generally focused on pandemic influenza and relied on expert opinion or modeling rather than real-world data.7,9,15,30,31 In fact, the most recent Pandemic Influenza Plan by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services described study of NPIs in the status of a data collection phase.15 Some retrospective data regarding NPIs and viral pandemics has been published. An analysis of U.S. cities found an association between increased duration of NPIs and total mortality reduction.30 Auger et al13 found school closures were associated with decreased COVID-19 incidence and mortality but adjustment for other NPIs was not included. Bendavid et al32 reported, in an international comparison of 10 count...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: There are a number of limitations in this study. First, this analysis was based on aggregate data reported by the surveillance system of COVID-19 in South Carolina. The data was arranged by date of report. Even though we shifted the date backward by 9 days to approximate the date of infection, this remained an estimation. Second, date of report is affected by holidays, on which days cases were not reported. Third, the effects of viral variants on transmission potential44 cannot be shown in this study. The first two cases of the Beta (B.1.351) variant in the U.S. were detected in South Carolina after the study period ended,46 so this may not be a severe limitation. Fourth, while re-opening of schools was staggered by grade in South Carolina, we lumped the re-openings together as we chose the first date of the re-opening as the date of policy change. However, for the county-level policy change analysis, we had specific school re-opening dates for all nine selected counties (Figures 2 and 3). And finally, we do not examine the impact of vaccinations on the transmission potential in South Carolina; however, our data was right-censored on January 10th, 2021, by which point there were minimal numbers of people fully vaccinated. Although we examined the impact of policy mandates, we did not examine the extent to which these policies were adhered on the ground. Behavioral variation in some places might impact the effectiveness of policies. However, as we attempted to exa...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.25.21264106: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The clustering of functional data is one method that statisticians are always interested in and in this Section we used the K-means and Fuzzy K-means techniques whose algorithm is already in Python skfd.ml.clustering and FuzzyCMeans.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Researchers should take into consideration the current limitations of antibody testing, including type of immunoglobulin detection, evolving knowledge of immune response and antibody duration in humans and animals, and accuracy of tests, among others (Mathur & Mathur, 2020; Özçürümez et al., 2020; Theel et al., 2020). Researchers also should consider vaccination status of people and animals and are encouraged to add questions as needed in this regard. Finally, studies conducted in households or other environments (such as zoos) where infected humans have similarly reported interactions with multiple animal species, may build upon laboratory animal model studies by elucidating natural-world differences in susceptibility and transmission patterns. CHAIS as a standard instrument for other zoonotic pathogens: The CHAIS instrument was specifically designed to be adapted to support studies investigating zoonotic and reverse zoonotic transmission of CoV-2 and similarly transmitted pathogens in settings where animals and humans share close contact, such as zoonotic strains of influenza viruses, Chlamydophila felis, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Y. pestis, Streptococcus group A, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), among others (Davis et al., 2012; Defres, Marwick, & Nathwani, 2009; Loeffler A, 2011; Manian, 2003; Rubinstein, Kollef, & Nathwani, 2008; Shrikrishna D, 2009; Trujillo J, 2012). While there may be important pathological and immunological differences between...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics statement: This study was approved by the ethical committees of Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine (approval codes: B2156702).<br>Consent: To validate the ELISA, sera from COVID-19 patients and healthy volunteers were used under approval of the ethical committee of Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine (approval code B200200), and written informed consent was obtained from the donors.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Detection of anti-N antibody by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA): An electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA) was conducted using the cobas e801 module (Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland) as in our previous study (11).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-N</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Detection of anti-Spike antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA): Anti-Spike antibodies in the human sera were detected by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with the purified Spike ectodomain described above.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ELISA)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing with PBST, a goat anti-human IgG with conjugated horseradish peroxidase (abcam) diluted 1:10000 with PBST was added as a secondary antibody followed by incubation at 37°C for 1 hour.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The value of the area under the curve (AUC) was used to evaluate the anti-S antibody amount (6, 12).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, the gene sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike ectodomain (amino acids 1-1213) was subcloned into a pCAGGS vector (24) with a puromycin-resistant gene.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCAGGS</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_18926)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264163: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The S3 study, the COSCA study and the RECoVERED study were approved by the medical ethical review board of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers (<br>Consent: All participants provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All S constructs were verified by Sanger sequencing and subsequently produced in HEK293F cells (ThermoFisher) and purified as previously described22.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293F</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudoviruses were produced by co-transfecting the SARS-CoV-2-S expression plasmid with the pHIV-1NL43 ΔEnv-NanoLuc reporter virus plasmid in HEK293T cells (ATCC, CRL-11268), as previously described48.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# CRL-11268, RRID:CVCL_1926)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Shortly, HEK293T/ACE2 cells, kindly provided by Dr. Paul Bieniasz48, were seeded at a density of 20,000 cells/well in a 96-well plate coated with 50 μg/mL poly-L-lysine one day prior to the start of the neutralization assay.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T/ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">They were ordered as gBlock gene fragments (Integrated DNA Technologies) and cloned in a pPPI4 expression vector containing a hexahistidine (his) tag with Gibson Assembly (ThermoFisher)22.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pPPI4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus construction: The WT, D614G, Alpha, Alpha E484K, Beta and Gamma pseudovirus S constructs were ordered as gBlock gene fragments (Integrated DNA Technologies) and cloned using SacI and ApaI in the pCR3 SARS-CoV-2-SΔ19 expression plasmid48 using Gibson Assembly (ThermoFisher)c</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCR3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudoviruses were produced by co-transfecting the SARS-CoV-2-S expression plasmid with the pHIV-1NL43 ΔEnv-NanoLuc reporter virus plasmid in HEK293T cells (ATCC, CRL-11268), as previously described48.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-1NL43 ΔEnv-NanoLuc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The inhibitory concentration (IC50) and neutralization titers (ID50) were determined as the NAb concentration and serum dilution at which infectivity was inhibited by 50%, respectively, using a non-linear regression curve fit (GraphPad Prism software version 8.3).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There are several limitations of our study. First, our study includes substantially more female than male participants, reflecting the gender distribution among HCW at our institute. Second, the age distribution in the four groups is not identical. In particular, the AZD1222 group is, on average, considerably older as a consequence of restrictive use of the AZD1222 vaccine in individuals aged 60-64 years in the Netherlands. As immune responses tend to become weaker with higher age, this is a relevant factor when considering the weaker responses in the AZD1222 group. Finally, the samples we tested were taken at the expected peak of immunity. It will be relevant to study the durability of the neutralizing antibody responses after vaccination with each of these vaccines. Some studies suggest that immunity induced by adenovirus vaccines might be more durable than immunity from mRNA vaccines8,45. We have only analyzed known VOCs and VOIs and cannot predict how our results apply to future variants. One consideration is that current VOCs were probably selected based on increased fitness and/or transmissibility, while future variants may very well be selected based on escape from immunity when more and more people are vaccinated or have experienced COVD-19. Such escape variants may be more resistant to neutralizing antibodies induced by current vaccines than the VOCs and VOIs studied here and may render vaccines even less effective at preventing infection. However, while circulating ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Human Subjects: Research protocol and consents were approved by the Western Internal Review Board (Study #1302611, Expiration Date: March 19th, 2022).<br>Field Sample Permit: Sample Processing Device and Protocol: Saliva samples were collected using the Orasure® Oral Fluid Collection Device (Orasure Technologies, Bethlehem, PA), which consists of an absorbent pad on the end of a long wand and a collection tube with preservative solution.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Internal standards consist of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies (Absolute Antibody, Oxford, United Kingdom) diluted in 1% (w/v) Casein/PBS solution at varying concentrations in the linear range of the assay to provide a standard curve.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary Antibody and Reporter Enzyme: Subsequently biotinylated Goat Anti-Human IgG Fc (ThermoFisher, Waltham, MA) was diluted 1:500 in 1% (w/v) Casein/PBS solution and 30 μL added to the well.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263825: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Crude mortality rates by country were taken from the World Development Indicators database (https://data.worldbank.org/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://data.worldbank.org/</div><div>suggested: (Data World Bank, RRID:SCR_012767)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Even though this study is to our knowledge the first attempt to quantify the societal impact of Covid-19 restrictions at both the national and global level, several limitations are worth highlighting. First, we were only able to collect survey data in five countries. Even though we found only relatively small differences in the stated utility weights across these somewhat diverse countries, it is possible that larger differences in the subjective valuation of measures would be found in a larger or more diverse sets of countries. Second, while we used census-based sampling weights to create nationally representative samples, it is also possible that respondents may not be fully representative of their respective age, gender, educational attainment stratum. Empirically, the differences across age, gender and educational attainment groups seem relatively small on average, which suggests that minor changes in sample composition will likely only have very small effects on the overall QALY losses estimated. The third limitation of the study is that there are currently no internationally validated questionnaires to estimate QALY utilities for states that are only indirectly health related such as Covid-19 restrictions. We piloted several version of the questions, and then formally tested Covid-19 vs. non Covid-18 framing in our surveys. Conceptually, framing restrictions as related to Covid-19 may lead to subjects justifying these measures as necessary and assigning lower disutility...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
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  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.21264188: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The ODEs were numerically integrated using the SciPy (29) interface to LSODA (30) and the BioNetGen (31) interface to CVODE (32).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SciPy</div><div>suggested: (SciPy, RRID:SCR_008058)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling was performed using the Python code of Lin et al. (22) and a new release of PyBioNetFit (37), version 1.1.9, which includes an implementation of the adaptive MCMC method used in the study of Lin et al. (22).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several notable limitations. Our HIT estimates are potentially biased downward because of general awareness within the US of the impacts of COVID-19 in other countries (e.g., China and Italy), which could have resulted in a fraction of the US population changing their behaviors to protect themselves from COVID-19 before the start of the local epidemic. In addition, our estimation of percent progress toward herd immunity crucially depends on seroprevalence estimates of the true disease burden. These estimates are associated with some uncertainty (49-51). As illustrated in Fig 6, percent progress toward herd immunity is underestimated if serological tests fail to detect all cases of infection. The reader must also be cautioned that our analysis depends on a number of assumptions. For example, we considered a compartmental model in which populations are taken to be well-mixed and to lack age structure. This is clearly a simplification. More refined estimates could be obtained by making the model more realistic, but this would have the drawback of increasing the complexity of inference, which at some point would make inference impracticable.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.461949

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.26.21264150

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For more detailed analyses, we used person-level claims for a 10% random sample of all PBS-eligible people for the same period.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Strengths and limitations: We had complete capture of medicine dispensing for the whole Australian population, and person-level data on a 10% sub-sample. However, we do not have data on dispensing of private prescriptions, meaning we have likely underestimated the impact on use of some medicines. Further, disruptions to medicine use during COVID-19 likely have multiple causes, including lockdown measures, changed interaction with the healthcare system, reduced circulation of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, and fear of not being able to access medicines, and these cannot reliably be disentangled. Conclusions: We demonstrated temporary changes in dispensing of commonly used medicines that were proposed for re-purposing for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19, including a large short-lived increase in hydroxychloroquine dispensing, most of which appeared to be due to anticipatory stockpiling, and a later smaller but longer-lasting increase in ivermectin dispensing. Balanced and informed communication of the changing evidence, including up-to-date and reliable access to evidence-informed advice is necessary to minimise any negative health impacts related to re-purposing of medicines. When similar situations arise, a quick response by regulators can help limit inappropriate re-purposing, to avoid supply shortages and potential harms.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.461930

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Chilled on ice, 100 μL of each sample was added to the VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells and TCID50 assay was performed as above. 4.7.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6/TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.24.461732

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.24.461732: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This repository was reviewed and approved by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Institutional Review Board.<br>Consent: All study participants provided written informed consent prior to specimen collection for the repository to include collection of associated clinical information and use of left-over clinical specimens for research.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Features used for UMAP projection included mean fluorescence intensity of staining markers, excluding live/dead, RBD, spike1, and spike2 with default parameters (neighbors = 15, metric = Euclidean, random seed = 9889) and included all COVID-19 samples used in this study for initial projection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The modified plasmids have been deposited to Addgene: #166856 and #166857 for spike and RBD, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Addgene</div><div>suggested: (Addgene, RRID:SCR_002037)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">FlowJo was used for gating and quantifying cell frequencies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All plasma samples were measured in duplicate and the average absorbance reading was used to calculate the area under the curve using GraphPad 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.27.461948

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.27.461948: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: All animal experimentations were performed in compliance with Yale Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee protocols.<br>Euthanasia Agents: Animals were anaesthetized using isoflurane.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A pulmonary pathologist reviewed the slides blinded and identified immune cell infiltration and other related pathologies.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice were treated with anti-IFNAR2 antibody at 1.5mg/kg dosing on days 7 and 11 post infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IFNAR2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibodies: Antibodies against the following antigens were used: Mouse antigens: CD45 (Clone: 30-F11), F4/80(BM8), CD326 (G8.8); Human antigens: CD45 (HI30), CD3 (UCHT1), CD14 (HCD14), CD16 (3G8), CD19 (HIB19), CD206 (15-2), CD86 (BU63), CD68(Y1/82A), CD11B (M1/70), CD11C (3.9), HLA-DR(LN3), NKp46 (9E2), CD56(MEM-188), CD4(OKT4), CD8(SK1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antigens: CD45</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>F4/80</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD326</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HI30</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: (Nanostring Cat# 121300104, RRID:AB_2893077)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCHT1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD14</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-094-531, RRID:AB_2721154)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HCD14</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD16</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 557939, RRID:AB_2802162)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD19</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-094-531, RRID:AB_2721154)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HIB19</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 557939, RRID:AB_2802162)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD206</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD86</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BU63</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD68</div><div>suggested: (Nanostring Cat# 121300104, RRID:AB_2893077)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD11B</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-094-531, RRID:AB_2721154)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD11C</div><div>suggested: (Nanostring Cat# 121300104, RRID:AB_2893077)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NKp46</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD56</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-dsRNA antibody (J2) was purchased from Sigma.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-dsRNA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Infectious titers of SARS-CoV-2 were determined by plaque assay in Vero E6 (standard) or Vero ACE2+TMPRSS2+ (sensitive) cells in DMEM 4% FBS, and 0.6% Avicel RC-58132.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero ACE2+TMPRSS2+</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were analyzed using FlowJo software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential expression analysis was also performed with DESeq2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For IFN-stimulated gene identification, http://www.interferome.org was used with parameters -In Vivo, -Mus musculus or Homo sapiens -fold change up 2 and down 2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>http://www.interferome.org</div><div>suggested: (Interferome, RRID:SCR_007743)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Viruses were titrated for 5 days in a 96-well format, plates were fixed with 100% methanol, blocked with 3% bovine serum albumin (BSA), stained with 1E7 primary monoclonal antibody (Eurofins Technologies Ingenasa) binding to the 229E nucleocapsid protein and a goat anti-mouse secondary antibody conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (Abcam, ab6785).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab6785, RRID:AB_955241)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This was followed by overnight probing with primary antibody at 4 °C and 1 hour with either anti-mouse or-rabbit horseradish peroxidase-linked IgG secondary antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>horseradish peroxidase-linked IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The primary antibodies include mouse monoclonal antibody 1E7 which is anti-229E nucleocapsid protein and polyclonal rabbit sera derived from immunization of rabbits with 229E spike protein (GenScript).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-229E nucleocapsid protein</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Caco2 and Rhileki cells were infected with C2 or C2R10 viruses respectively for 2 hours at 33 °C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Raw NGS reads were trimmed by Trimmomatic v0.39 to remove adaptors and low-quality reads41.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Trimmomatic</div><div>suggested: (Trimmomatic, RRID:SCR_011848)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In order to obtain consensus sequences, C2 virus consensus of each isolate was used as reference to assemble trimmed and raw reads using the BWA-MEM algorithm in UGENE v.3442.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UGENE</div><div>suggested: (Unipro UGENE, RRID:SCR_005579)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Coverage, depth and statistics of the assembled reads were visualized in Geneious R9.1.8 and Integrative Genomics Viewer43.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Geneious</div><div>suggested: (Geneious, RRID:SCR_010519)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consensus sequences were aligned using MAFFT v7.222 and annotated in Geneious R9.1.8.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAFFT</div><div>suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PCR products were visualized using a 1.5% gel and sequences confirmed by Sanger sequencing (Macrogen)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Macrogen</div><div>suggested: (Macrogen, RRID:SCR_014454)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blots were visualized using a CCD imager detector (Bio-Rad Laboratories) after ECL detection (Amersham Biosciences).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bio-Rad Laboratories</div><div>suggested: (Bio-Rad Laboratories, RRID:SCR_008426)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">These amino acid sequences were then aligned to the full-length sequences of 229E S and ORF4 proteins obtained from GenBank (accession number: NC_002645) using Clustal Omega webserver (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalo/)50 to determine reading frames corresponding to each protein and deleted residues.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Clustal Omega</div><div>suggested: (Clustal Omega, RRID:SCR_001591)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Due to restrictions on travel and social distancing, the study was conducted remotely, and all processes including, recruitment, consent, and data collection were completed online. 2.2. Recruitment: Data collection for this study was carried out between December 2020 and July 2021.<br>Field Sample Permit: UK-REACH is among a collection of COVID-19 UPH studies funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK to provide “rapid response” research to better understand the disease and its impact, collecting real-time information to inform national policy (22).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In this analysis, therefore, generation of themes was informed by data collection across all participants, and a detailed analysis of a randomly selected subset of transcripts, which were rigorously coded and analysed to generate the results presented in this paper.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has certain limitations. For example, social distancing measures meant that data collection had to be conducted remotely and using online technology. This may have affected participation from certain groups who may be less proficient in use of or have less access to digital technology. Relatedly, study promotion and invitations to join were mostly virtual, which meant that HCWs who do not routinely access virtual communication or use social media may have missed taking part. However, this study had a unique advantage of being able to collect data in real-time as the situation around COVID-19 vaccination has been unfolding in the UK, although the rapid change in scenario could also mean that some of the participants’ views may have changed from the time of data collection. Given this, we are making efforts to keep pace with the changes and bring out results rapidly, and some of our early results have already been considered by the government in their policy-making decisions (36). In conclusion, our study is one of the first to report in-depth qualitative data on attitudes of HCWs towards the COVID-19 vaccine and factors influencing vaccination decisions. While vaccine hesitancy among HCWs has been reported by other studies, our research delineates some of the reasons behind this hesitancy, such as trust and communication. Furthermore, our research strengthens knowledge around the complexity of vaccine hesitancy among this key population of HCWs, and offers a new fram...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ISRCTN11811602</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">3D structure visualization was performed using PyMol.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PyMol</div><div>suggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">As randomised trials are particularly relevant for decision-making, we also run a regular search for randomised trials on Twitter using the terms #COVID19 OR #COVID-19 OR #COVID_19 OR #COVID randomized OR randomised, and scan relevant scientific conferences, press release websites and the websites of the main trials or companies relevant to COVID-19.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sources include PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL (the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), PsycINFO, LILACS (Latin American & Caribbean Health Sciences Literature), Wanfang Database, CBM (Chinese Biomedical Literature Database), CNKI (Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure), VIP (Chinese Scientific Journal Database), IRIS (WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing), IRIS PAHO (PAHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing), IBECS (Spanish Bibliographic Index on Health Sciences), Microsoft Academic, ICTRP Search Portal, Clinicaltrials.gov, ISRCTN registry, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, IRCT (Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials), EU Clinical Trials Register, Japan NIPH Clinical Trials Search, JPRN (Japan Primary Registries Network - includes JapicCTI, JMACCT CTR, jRCT, UMIN CTR), CRiS (Clinical Research Information Service), ANZCTR (Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry), ReBec (Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry), CTRI (Clinical Trials Registry - India), RPCEC (Cuban Public Registry of Clinical Trials), DRKS (German Clinical Trials Register), LBCTR (Lebanese Clinical Trials Registry), TCTR (Thai Clinical Trials Registry), NTR (The Netherlands National Trial Register), PACTR (Pan African Clinical Trial Registry), REPEC (Peruvian Clinical Trial Registry), SLCTR (Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry), MedRxiv, BioRxiv, SSRN Preprints, Research Square, ChinaXiv and SciELO Preprints.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EMBASE</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PsycINFO</div><div>suggested: (PsycINFO, RRID:SCR_014799)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioRxiv</div><div>suggested: (bioRxiv, RRID:SCR_003933)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One limitation of our study is that a sample obtained by the relative recall method might not be representative of the total number of existing studies [11]. Considering the high level of standardisation of systematic reviews it is possible they all cover much the same territory. An evaluation against a sample derived from a manual review of journals and other sources might provide a more reliable estimate [19]. However, this approach may not be suitable in the context of the deluge of scientific information about COVID-19. Another limitation of our evaluation is the scope of the assessment. We addressed only primary studies and not the other types of scientific articles that are contained in the COVID-19 L·OVE repository, which includes any type of scientific article. Considering the inclusive nature of the methods used to maintain the COVID-19 L·OVE repository, we can expect similar results for the other types of articles, but a formal evaluation would provide a definitive answer. Our study is not designed to assess the specificity of the repository nor any of the components of the COVID-19 classification platform. We believe the latter has enormous potential to increase the reliability of search processes and to reduce the amount of work involved. However, it is yet to be tested. Implications: Accessing all the available studies for a particular topic is key to avoiding being misled by research [20]. Unfortunately, substantial time and resources are needed to comprehensive...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: However, the original trial protocols for data collection were reviewed and approved by the local review boards or ethics committees at each study centre for the ocrelizumab phase II trial [NCT00676715. 79 Centres], the phase III cladribine tablet study [NCT00213135. 155 centres] and the alemtuzumab [NCT00530348.<br>Consent: All patients provided written informed consent [Kappos et al. 2011, Giovannoni et al. 2010, Cohen et al. 2012, Coles et al. 2012].</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lymphocyte and CD19 peripheral blood CD19 B cell data related to the licenced 12mg dose was extracted from the CARE-MS trials, using SAS software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS</div><div>suggested: (SASqPCR, RRID:SCR_003056)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT00676715</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Ocrelizumab in Patient…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT00213135</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Completed</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Safety and Efficacy Study of Oral Cladribine in Subjects W…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT00530348</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Completed</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Comparison of Alemtuzumab and Rebif® Efficacy in Multiple Sc…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT00548405</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Completed</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Comparison of Alemtuzumab and Rebif® Efficacy in Multiple Sc…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: All subjects were recruited following protocols approved by local Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) or from NIH NIAID IRB, as indicated below: Chile: IRB: Comité Ético Científico Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile Protocol: 2020-41 Title: Infección por Sars CoV-2 y enfermedad Covid-19: caracterización epidemiológica, clínica, virológica e inmunológica (SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19: Epidemiologic, clinical, virologic and immunologic characterization) Pavia, Italy: IRB: Ethics Committee of the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia Protocol: 20200037677 Title: Analisi comprensiva della risposta immunitaria innata ed adattativa durante</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing: SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike and anti-nucleocapsid antibody testing was performed via luciferase immunoprecipitation systems assay, as previously described [6].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-nucleocapsid</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PBMC pools were Fc blocked (Human TruStain FcX, BioLegend) and stained with Totalseq-C human ‘hashtag’ antibodies (BioLegend), washed with staining buffer (2% BSA in PBS).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human ‘hashtag’</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The fluorescence-labeled antibody cocktail against human CD45 (APC/Cyanine7), CD3 (AF488), CD19 (APC), CCR7 (BV786), CD95 (BV650), IgD (PerCP-Cy5.5) and CD27(PE/Cyanine7; all antibodies obtained from Biolegend) were added at the end of blocking and incubated for 20 minutes at 4°C in the dark.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human CD45</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 563716, RRID:AB_2716864)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 8200-30, RRID:AB_2796425)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD19</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 563333, RRID:AB_2738141)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CCR7</div><div>suggested: (Creative Diagnostics Cat# CPBT-66983GM, RRID:AB_2528776)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BV786</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 740991, RRID:AB_2740614)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD95</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 305642, RRID:AB_2632622)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BV650</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PerCP-Cy5.5</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 560612, RRID:AB_1727457)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD27</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Because multiple samples from different timepoints for each donor were collected and could not be demultiplexed by this method alone, ‘hashtag’ antibodies (Biolegend) were used to uniquely label the different time points.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>‘hashtag’</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The data of several proteins that directly bind with secondary antibodies detected through buffer incubation without any serum were excluded (such as IGHG1, IGHG3 and so on) alongside the controls (such as Rhodamine+IgG64, Anti-human IgG, GST 10ng/ul etc.).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IGHG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IGHG3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: (LSBio (LifeSpan Cat# LS-C23907-500, RRID:AB_900919)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Multiplex particle-based anticytokine autoantibody screening assay and functional evaluation: Plasma samples were screened for autoantibodies against IFN-α, IFN-β, IFN-ω and IFN-γ in a multiplex particle-based assay [31], in which differentially fluorescent magnetic beads were covalently coupled to recombinant human proteins (2.5 ug/reaction).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IFN-α, IFN-β</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IFN-ω</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For the comparison of pHC with pCOVID-19, the classification was then repeated after the exclusion of allergic pHC, with similar results.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCOVID-19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">These analyses were completed with IBM SPSS Statistics v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">27 and GraphPad Prism version 9 [7].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Trained with Python sklearn library’s RandomForestClassifier object, using parameters: n_estimator=2000, random_state=42 for data set.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The statistical analysis of SOMAscan® results was performed using R Studio (R Core Team, 2020) [11], also using a specifically developed webtool for basic data plotting and analysis [12].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SOMAscan®</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To assess the difference in the overall predictive importance (derived by GENIE3) of each variable with and without IVIG treatment, we summed the interaction strengths associated with each predictor-target pair for a given predictor variable in either treatment condition (steroid treatment applied in both conditions).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GENIE3</div><div>suggested: (GENIE3, RRID:SCR_000217)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resulting values were visualized using the Complexheatmap package in R.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Complexheatmap</div><div>suggested: (ComplexHeatmap, RRID:SCR_017270)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All sequencing data were then processed with Burrows–Wheeler Aligner (BWA) and the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BWA</div><div>suggested: (BWA, RRID:SCR_010910)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Genome Analysis Toolkit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GATK</div><div>suggested: (GATK, RRID:SCR_001876)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Raw fastq files were trimmed using Trimmomatic v0.39 [15] and mapped to the hg38 human reference genome using BWA-MEM v07.17.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Trimmomatic</div><div>suggested: (Trimmomatic, RRID:SCR_011848)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BWA-MEM</div><div>suggested: (Sniffles, RRID:SCR_017619)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PCR Duplicates were marked using Samblaster v0.1.2.5 [16] and GATK4 v4.1.9.0 was used to perform BAM recalibration, and HLA*LA [17] was used to call HLA genotypes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Samblaster</div><div>suggested: (SAMBLASTER, RRID:SCR_000468)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GATK4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resulting CDR3 sequences were collapsed and filtered to quantify the absolute abundance and frequency of each unique CDR3 region with Adaptive Biotechnologies’ pipeline [19]</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Biotechnologies’</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">10x Genomics 5’ Single cell gene expression, cell surface protein tag, TCR and BCR libraries were pooled and sequenced on Illumina NovaSeq platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA) using the sequencing parameters recommended by the 10x Genomics 5’ v1.1 user guide. d) Bulk RNA sequencing and single cell sample demultiplexing: For each sample, 100,000-500,000 cells were processed in Trizol using the miRNAeasy micro kit (Qiagen, Germantown, MD) and standard RNA sequencing libraries were generated using Illumina Truseq library preparation kits.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Genomics</div><div>suggested: (UTHSCSA Genomics Core, RRID:SCR_012239)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sequencing reads were adapter and quality trimmed and then aligned to the human genome using the splice-aware STAR aligner and SNP calls were generated using the previously published protocol [23].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STAR</div><div>suggested: (STAR, RRID:SCR_004463)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lowly expressed genes were removed for each cell type individually using the filterByExpr function from edgeR [26]</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>edgeR</div><div>suggested: (edgeR, RRID:SCR_012802)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differentially expressed genes were identified using the limma voom [27] workflow which models the log of the cpm (counts per million) of each gene.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>limma</div><div>suggested: (LIMMA, RRID:SCR_010943)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enriched gene sets were identified using the pre-ranked GSEA algorithm implemented in the FGSEA R package [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/060012v3].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FGSEA</div><div>suggested: (fgsea, RRID:SCR_020938)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pseudobulk gene counts were normalized with the varianceStabilizingTransformation function from DEseq2 (doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8) for the score calculation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DEseq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq2, RRID:SCR_015687)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For BCR data, V(D)J sequencing contigs from 10x CellRanger output was processed using Immcantation v2.7.0 toolbox (https://immcantation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Immcantation</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">BCR sequence genotype inference and mutation load quantification were performed with reference to the pipeline from Mathew et al. [29] using the TIgGER package [30] and SHazaM package [28].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TIgGER</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SHazaM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Autoantibody analysis: Autoantibody analysis was performed using HuProt™ v4.0 human protein microarrays and processed by CDI Laboratories (Baltimore, MD)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HuProt™</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Beads were washed again, resuspended in assay buffer, and analyzed on a BioPlex X200 instrument.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioPlex</div><div>suggested: (BioPlex, RRID:SCR_016144)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were acquired on a BD LSRFortessa cytometer, gated on CD14+ monocytes, and analyzed with FlowJo software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  This study has some limitations. Only a few children with severe pCOVID-19 were included in the study, and therefore the results obtained may not apply to rare cases of life-threatening disease in children. We did not have longitudinal samples available for all MIS-C patients. However, the number of patients included in the study was sufficient to detect early and late signatures of the disease. Finally, while an increasing number of cases of pCOVID-19 due to the delta variant have been recently reported [62], almost all samples were collected prior to the emergence of this variant. Therefore, the impact of the delta variant on innate and adaptive immune responses in children with pCOVID-19 and MIS-C remains to be studied. Despite these limitations, this study has helped identify novel age-, time- and treatment-related immunopathological signatures that characterize MIS-C and pCOVID-19.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT03394053</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Mechanistic Biology of Primary Immunodeficiency Disorder…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT03610802</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Send-In Sample Collection to Achieve Genetic and Immunologic…</td></tr></table>
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">14,21 In those studies, participants aged 18 years or older and vaccinated with CoronaVac were eligible for a study of the antibody kinetics of CoronaVac vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody .</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">22 Neutralizing antibody dynamics with different vaccines with time-specific aggregated data collected from a comprehensive literature search: Using predefined search terms, we conducted a search for studies that reported dynamics of neutralizing antibodies and impact of a booster dose among vaccine recipients in five databases - three peer-reviewed databases (PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science) and two preprint servers (medRxiv, bioRxiv) (Appendix p10, Table S4).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Embase</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bioRxiv</div><div>suggested: (bioRxiv, RRID:SCR_003933)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, our predictions depend on level of neutralizing antibodies, without taking other immunologic mechanisms of humoral and cellular immunity into account. However, previous studies showed that neutralizing antibodies are highly predictive of immune protection. Second, to enhance comparability between different studies with different neutralization assays, we normalized the neutralization titers in each study by the mean titers in convalescent sera reported in Phase I/II trials against prototype strains that used the same type of neutralization assay. However, other sources of heterogeneity, such as lab-to-lab variation and experimental procedures could not be accounted for. Third, the n-fold-reduction of neutralization titers of the Delta variant was not available for certain time periods for mRNA-1273. Instead, we used the n-fold-change from the Beta variant - a variant with more significant immune-escape capacity - to provide a conservative estimated for our analyses. We also conducted a sensitivity analysis by using n-fold-reduction from the Gamma variant (a variant with less significant immune-escape capacity than Delta). In conclusion, our study predicted time-varying vaccine protection from prototype SARS-CoV-2 and the Delta variant and the increase of protection that results from booster dose administration. We estimated protection by four COVID-19 vaccines from three clinical endpoints in two age groups. Our findings suggest that,...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: The research ethics boards of all participating institutions approved this study with a waiver of informed consent for data collection and linkage.<br>IRB: The research ethics boards of all participating institutions approved this study with a waiver of informed consent for data collection and linkage.<br>Consent: The research ethics boards of all participating institutions approved this study with a waiver of informed consent for data collection and linkage.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data Collection: Trained research assistants collected data retrospectively from electronic and/or paper-based medical records into a central, web-based REDCap database (Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REDCap</div><div>suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis was preformed using Stata (Version 16.1, StataCorp, College Station, Texas).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitation of our study is that we only considered NAATs and did not consider the diagnostic yield of antigen-based COVID-19 tests, as they were not widespread in Canada in 2020 (16). We were unable to examine the sensitivity and specificity of the SARS-CoV-2 NAATs as we were unable to define false positive tests, so it is possible that some of the positive test results we encountered are false positives, leading to an overestimation of diagnostic yield. While our study is based on a Canadian population without international sites, we believe our findings are generalizable given their wide geographic spread, and the cultural and racial diversity of our patient population. Finally, as data becomes available on the fourth wave of the pandemic, a future study should examine the impact of widespread vaccination on the yield of screening. As a larger proportion of the population is protected from severe disease and death through vaccination, decision makers should carefully consider the low diagnostic yield of a universal testing strategy going forward.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04702945</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Registry</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This analysis received approval from the health system’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), and was granted a waiver of subject authorization given the retrospective nature of the study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Patient Cohort #2-Prospective Randomized Trial: IVIG (Octagam 10%, Octapharma, Inc) use in COVID-19 was studied in a previously published prospective open-label randomized trial.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Outcomes: Cost data was independently obtained from our finance team who provided us with the total direct cost and the total pharmaceutical cost associated with each admission.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cost</div><div>suggested: (COST, RRID:SCR_014098)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The major limitations of this study include the small sample size and the potential lack of generalizability of these results to all hospital centers. Our group has generated considerable experience in IVIG utilization in COVID-19 and as a result, has identified a ‘sweet spot’ where benefit was seen clinically and economically. However, it remains to be determined if IVIG will benefit patients with greater illness severity such as those in the ICU, on mechanical ventilation, or ECMO. Furthermore, while a significant morbidity and mortality burden of COVID-19 rests in extremely elderly patients and those with end-organ comorbidities such as renal failure and heart failure, it is uncertain if their COVID-19 adverse outcomes can be improved with IVIG or other therapies. We believe such patients may limit the pharmacoeconomic value of IVIG due to their generally poorer prognosis regardless of intervention. On the other hand, COVID-19 patients who are not that severely ill with minimal to no hypoxia generally will do well regardless of therapy and IVIG intervention may be potentially be an unnecessary treatment expense. Evidence for this was hinted in our pilot trial10 and supported in a recent meta-analysis of IVIG therapy in COVID-19.16 Several other therapeutic options with high acquisition costs have seen an increase in use during the COVID-19 pandemic despite relatively lukewarm data. Remdesivir, the first drug found to have a beneficial effect on hospitalized patients with C...
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  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the UCSF Institutional Review Board (IRB) and participants gave oral consent for their and their children’s participation.<br>Consent: This study was approved by the UCSF Institutional Review Board (IRB) and participants gave oral consent for their and their children’s participation.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The TAB cohort was analyzed separately as women and children were recruited primarily at the UCSF Benioff hospital and population demographics were more heterogenous including more highly educated parents, US-born parents and English speakers.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: The participants in the present study are part of three, pre-existing, longitudinal cohorts in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. While our study’s demographics provide insight into reasons for vaccination nonintent among the Latino community, our sample may not be representative of the individual beliefs, values, and behaviors of all United States Latinos. Furthermore, developments in 2021 may have altered some perceptions concerning vaccinations. Over the time period that our study was conducted the United States government and the United States Department of Homeland Security made clear that vaccines will be available free of charge to all individuals in the United States and the immigrant status will not play into vaccination nor will enforcement be conducted near clinic sites or sites of vaccination distribution (United States Department of Homeland Security, 2021). Furthermore, the Biden administration has made a greater effort to facilitate partnership with Community Health Centers to promote equal access to vaccines among minority population groups (Corallo and Tolbert, 2021). These political changes may have altered attitudes and intent concerning COVID-19 vaccination.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethical approval for this research was provided by the local institutional review board under IRB #0141-20.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The presented work has several important limitations. First, our work is a single center retrospective and descriptive study. Thus, there might have been a bias regarding which patients were monitored and the decision whether to initiate monitoring for a specific patient was not reasoned or recorded. Second, the EtCO2 time-series were not analysed in depth beyond the detection of the initiation of the mechanical ventilation. Third, the level of FiO2 was not used to further stratify patient’s recorded intervals under oxygen support. In addition, we did not explore the effect of sub-type of support and other parameters such as PEEP or pressure support.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There are several limitations to the analysis presented within. We here have assumed that individuals under the age of 12 are half as susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2 as those above 12 years. Future studies may explore sensitivity of the study results (e.g., the estimated attack ratio and its dependence on time to isolation and activity levels) in terms of the relative susceptibility between the two age classes. We here have assumed Delta has completely replaced the previously circulating strains, hence may slightly overestimate the transmission probability per contact as there are still a (relatively small) number of cases detected in Ontario associated with strains such as Alpha. We also assumed homogeneity among the two age classes which span large age groups: those individuals under 12 years and those individuals 12 years and above. The potential differences or heterogeneity in activity levels, susceptibility to infection by SARS-CoV-2 and vaccination coverage rates may be accounted for in subsequent studies. In the present study, we have devised an algorithm to calculate the attack ratio among children under different scenarios of the activity level of the vaccine-eligible population and the children-to-children contact rate, and the speed in which infectious individuals are removed from the transmission chain. We remark that the algorithm is generic and therefore the attack ratio analysis presented within may be conducted for different geographic regions, which we...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.25.21264097: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: The study was conducted in accordance with the STROBE guidelines for observational research (27), and received ethics approval from the Research Ethics Board at the University of Toronto.<br>IRB: The study was conducted in accordance with the STROBE guidelines for observational research (27), and received ethics approval from the Research Ethics Board at the University of Toronto.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Models were adjusted for male sex, time (modeled as a week-on-week linear trend), vaccination status (in age groups 10 years and older), documented major comorbidity (including asthma, COPD, hematological disease, liver disease, cardiac disease, diabetes, renal disease, neurological disease, malignancy, or obesity), and immune compromise.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">As of June 2021, routine WGS was discontinued on N501Y-POSITIVE/E484-specimens, which were presumed to be alpha lineage.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WGS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our analysis is subject to important limitations: first, the relative rarity of severe outcomes in younger age groups means that our estimates for these groups are imprecise. Furthermore, our failure to identify heterogeneity in severity by age, when evaluating effects in children and teens, may simply be related to the imprecision of estimates in these age groups, rather than true lack of heterogeneity. A second limitation is the degree to which frequency of testing, particularly in younger age groups, has been dynamic in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic (21). Increasing frequency of testing in under-tested younger age groups over time, as VOC emerged in the population, could increase the fraction of mild cases identified, and may have served to mask increases in severity. In summary, however, we find no evidence to suggest that the apparent increase in virulence of SARS-CoV-2 VOC is limited to a particular age group; indeed, we present evidence that the relative virulence of Delta VOC, as represented by mortality risk, may be inversely related to age. The relative rarity of severe outcomes in children and teens means that more study is needed to assess the robustness and generalizability of these findings.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.24.21263996: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Study approval was granted by the Northwestern University Institutional Review Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: For the vast majority of PNIs, the diagnosis and localization were supported by electrodiagnostic testing and/or neuromuscular ultrasound (Table 1).</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: All protocols were approved by the Hamilton Research Ethics Board (#10757 and #11471).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Measurements of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 full-length S protein and RBD IgG and IgA seropositivity were identified via validated serology ELISA as described by Huynh et al., 2021 [15].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibodies</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RBD IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing with PBS, plates were coated with diluted serum (1:100) for 1 hour at room temperature, washed, and incubated with 25 μL alkaline phosphatase conjugated antibodies goat anti-human IgG (1:2000) or goat anti-human IgA (1:500) (Jackson Immuno).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Unstimulated wells served as negative controls, and polyclonal stimulation with CytoStim™ (0.5 μl/well, Miltenyi Biotec) was included as positive control.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CytoStim™</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Data and statistical analyses were done in FlowJo version 10.7.1,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, GraphPad Prism version 9, and R.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There are some limitations in this study. First, the participants were mostly collected from East Asia (China) and some from Spain. Therefore, a larger multicenter study covering more patients with diverse races and more control groups is necessary before the model could be used globally. More data are being collected and will be used in the further study. Secondary, there might be potential confounding factors such as comorbidities influencing eye symptoms. We did not collect the comorbidities of our participants. However, the control and positive patients were randomly selected from the population, which could balance the baseline demographics between groups. Third, some of the demographic information (e.g., gender and ages) are not collected during image acquisition. Fourth, our model was based on the eye symptoms, however, it cannot determine COVID-19-related eye disease. The pathological significance of extracted features from COVID-19 patients should be carefully interpreted and re-verified by the ophthalmologist. Further clinical studies are needed to test the performance and provide a deeper understanding of our findings of the ocular surface feature-based classification network.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.18.21263630

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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Eligible participants were age 18 years or older (or younger if the country’s Institutional Review Board and ethical regulation permitted it and the in-country lead ensured appropriate procedures), resided in the respective participating country, were capable of reading and understanding the survey language, could access an online survey, and were willing to provide informed consent.<br>Consent: Eligible participants were age 18 years or older (or younger if the country’s Institutional Review Board and ethical regulation permitted it and the in-country lead ensured appropriate procedures), resided in the respective participating country, were capable of reading and understanding the survey language, could access an online survey, and were willing to provide informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary study aims were to examine changes in HIV/STI testing, harmful cultural practices (e.g., female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage), mental health, and food security.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The consortium recommended a sample size of at least 200, but precise sample size calculations were made by each country’s research team.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, this was an online survey organized during COVID-19 measures, introducing risk for selection bias. Although there is no guideline for conducting online surveys, we used several strategies to limit bias, including the use of online panels, partnerships with organizations for sample recruitment, review of analytics, and prespecified analysis plans.13 Second, although we were able to capture data from different times during the COVID-19 epidemic, this was a series of retrospective cross-sectional studies, and we did not capture how sexual behaviors and access evolved over the course of the pandemic. A follow-up survey in selected countries is now underway. Third, our sample included more women, people with higher education, and people living in high-income countries compared to populations in respective countries. At the same time, data from one of the convenience samples included in this analysis suggested that the convenience sample included similar proportions of adults within subnational geographic areas compared to census data.30 Fourth, our study had fewer studies from low-income countries which may have been due to later COVID-19 initial waves and less capacity for research alongside the pandemic. At the same time, our main findings were robust when stratifying based on country income level. Although COVID-19 measures made it more difficult to obtain population-representative samples, we organized a multi-country analysis of data ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.26.21264141

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.26.21264141: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our findings are also in line with the approach outlined by NHS England/National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) suggesting that remote consultations are more appropriate for consultations of chronic, stable patients, where a physical examination may not be required.[8] It also provides the beginnings of an evidence base for which hospitals can start adapting to digital health clinics as part of the pre-pandemic NHS Long Term Plan to move up to a third of visits non face-to-face.[20] A number of limitations are worth addressing. Foremostly, many presentations or diagnoses are under-represented, reflecting the finite period when unselected referrals were converted to telephone clinics (following which a more judicious approach based on clinician experience was adopted). Additionally, the peripheral nerve service did not undertake telephone consultations due to the importance of the clinical examination to their clinical assessments; the small number of neuropathies included here were those from general clinics so are not generalisable. The majority of patient questionnaires were collected by telephone rather than written, but we found no meaningful difference between the rates of patient-reported goal achievement or patient’s future consultation medium preference between the two approaches suggesting this methodological issue did not introduce bias. To improve uptake and avoid unnecessary burden we relied on self-reported consultation duration from clinicians which may...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.25.21264082: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We fit a logistic regression model using maximum likelihood:where µi is the probability of respondent i reporting >7 contacts, Xi is a vector of covariates, including age group, DMA, gender, race/ethnicity (Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black/Hispanic/Non-Hispanic Other), survey wave, and whether the survey day was a weekday, and β is a vector of the estimated coefficients.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Non-Hispanic White</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For New York City and Phoenix, we also compared the simulated proportion of clinical infections in each age group to the empirical proportion of COVID-19 infections in each age group.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Phoenix</div><div>suggested: (Phoenix, RRID:SCR_003163)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This analysis has several limitations to consider. First, BICS uses a quota sample from an online panel instead of a probability sample. However, respondent-level calibration weights were estimated to adjust for sample composition to produce representative surveys for each DMA. Moreover, information bias is a concern for contact surveys due to difficulties with recall and social desirability bias, which may be expected to be especially pronounced in the middle of a pandemic. Respondents may therefore have under-reported their number of contacts in the survey. At the same time, the BICS survey captures only two-way conversational and physical contacts. Other types of contacts that might be relevant to SARS-CoV-2 transmission, including, for example, contacts that happen from being in close proximity to others, were not captured in this analysis. The analyses also did not take into account the nature of these conversational and physical contacts, such as mask wearing, distance maintained during the contact, and duration of the contact. In terms of generalizability, the BICS is only offered in English, limiting the ability to generalize results to Americans whose primary language is not English. Lastly, since children, defined as less than age 18, are not included in the BICS, previously developed methods were used to fill missing data values for the youngest age group. A key limitation of the simulation results is the significant parameter uncertainty of the compartmental model...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.24.21264045: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The clinical research plan was reviewed and approved by an institutional review board and an ethics committee before patient enrollment.<br>Consent: All patients provided written informed consent before participation.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Participants: This prospective randomized controlled study was conducted at Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia (Valencia, Spain).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical Analyses: As this was the first study of nVNS for the treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19, there are no previously published data on the anticipated effect size in humans, and a formal power analysis could not be performed.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">As the pandemic progressed, treatment protocols evolved to incorporate glucocorticoids, antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, and prone mechanical ventilation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antivirals,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses were performed with SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc.).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04368156</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study Assessing Vagus Nerve Stimulation in CoViD-19 Respirat…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04382391</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study Assessing Vagus Nerve Stimulation in CoViD-19 Respirat…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.26.21264067

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.26.21264067: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics and data collection: The study was approved by the local Ethical Review Boards prot.<br>Consent: All enrolled individuals provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2-S and anti-SARS-CoV-2-N antibodies in serum samples was performed using the electrochemiluminescence immunoassays Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-S and Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-N (Roche) on the automated Cobas e-411 analyzer, according to the manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2-N</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-N</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Considering the nature of the outcome (Anti-S, non-negative count data), differences between groups of patients defined by therapy and negative to Anti-N antibody, were assessed by a negative binomial generalized linear mixed-effects model; the contribution of age, sex, Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), disease duration, previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, and the clinical sampling center were also analyzed.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-N</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
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  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Data were pooled for several protocols, which were approved by the Partners Healthcare / Mass General Brigham Institutional Review Board.<br>Consent: All participants gave written informed consent at the time of their screening.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Group differences were assessed by using a permutation test (FSL randomise; 5000 permutations; cluster-forming threshold of p=0.01; cluster size threshold of p=0.05), again accounting for age, binding affinity, and scanner.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All subjects in the HCPOST cohort had a negative COVID-19 antibody test (Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2, Roche Diagnostics; 99.81% accuracy; 95% confidence interval (CI): 99.65-99.1) at the time of the scan.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Dynamic PET/MR scans were performed with two different Siemens scanners: a 3T Tim Trio whole-body MRI with a dedicated brain PET insert (BrainPET; Scanner 1) and a 3T Verio whole-body, MRI whole-body PET tomograph (Biograph mMR; Scanner 2).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Biograph</div><div>suggested: (Spiral Genetics Incorporated, RRID:SCR_011048)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Demographics, ROI PET and behavioral analyses were performed using Statistica (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statistica</div><div>suggested: (STATISTICA , RRID:SCR_014213)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Transcriptomic analyses were conducted using the Web-based gene set analysis toolkit (WebGestalt).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WebGestalt</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  When interpreting the results of our study, the reader should be mindful of several limitations. First, HCPOST had a relatively small sample size, particularly compared to the HCPRE cohort (a limitation largely imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic-related disruption on clinical research)29. However, multiple factors provide high confidence in the solidity of our observations, including the consistency of our observations across individuals, scanners, age groups, genotypes, and sexes (see Appendix, Suppl. Figure 3), the relative stability of the pre-lockdown markers, the observed elevation of two separate imaging markers measured using independent imaging modalities and the finding of significant enrichment in genes highly expressed in glial cells. Second, our analysis was largely based on unpaired comparisons of pre- and post-lockdown groups. While our single subject scanned both pre- and post-lockdown demonstrated PET signal elevations in the same regions observed in the group comparison, longitudinal assessments of more individuals scanned in the same manner will be needed to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on brain health. Third, because pandemic-specific questionnaires were not collected at the time of the scan visits, behavioral analyses were conducted using retrospectively collected questionnaire data, and only from a subset of subjects. As such the link between neuroinflammation and clinical symptoms presented in this report should be regarded as prel...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 24 and 27. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics statement: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee (National committee for Biosafety and Bioethics at Biotechnology Research Center, Tripoli - Libya, N°: BTRC-2021).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Specifically, when the post-E-beam irradiated viruses did not cause CPE, blind transmission of three generations was performed as follows to determine that the irradiated virus had no infective activity.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We performed three cycles (alternating cycles of -80 °C and 25 °C) of freezing and thawing to separate the virus from the Vero E6 cells(19).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Here, PMD18-T plasmid containing S gene fragment was constructed as the standard (Table 2).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PMD18-T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics statement: This work was approved by the University of California San Francisco Human Research Protection Program Institutional Review Board (IRB# 21-34522, Reference Number 319235).<br>Consent: This same IRB also waived consent for specimen collection because collection occurred as part of public health response.<br>Field Sample Permit: All work was carried out in accordance with relevant regulations and guidelines.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, 3 µl of total nucleic acid was used as input for a randomly primed cDNA synthesis reaction.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: Additionally, swabs in both viral transport media and saline transport media were validated for testing.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics statement: This work was approved by the University of California San Francisco Human Research Protection Program Institutional Review Board (IRB# 21-34522, Reference Number 319235).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Human Research Protection Program</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Low priority samples, such as those collected to provide travel clearance, pre-operative screening, and general population surveillance, were deferred to commercial laboratories such as Quest and LabCorp.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Quest</div><div>suggested: (QUEST, RRID:SCR_005210)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Additionally, some extractions were either performed on the Qiagen EZ1 Advanced, eluting samples in 120 µls of elution buffer, or on the KingFisher™ Flex Purification System and the MagMAX™ Viral/Pathogen II Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit (ThermoFisher), which eluted the sample in 100 µls of elution buffer.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ThermoFisher</div><div>suggested: (ThermoFisher; SL 8; Centrifuge, RRID:SCR_020809)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used the Augur pipeline to align the sequences using nextalign v0.1.6, build a maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree with IQTREE v2.0.3 (Minh et al. 2020), and temporally resolve the tree using TreeTime v0.8.1 (Sagulenko, Puller, and Neher 2018).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Augur</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was evaluated and approved by the French ethics committee (Comité de Protection des Personnes Nord-Ouest IV) in October 2020 and was notified to the French data protection authority.<br>Consent: This implies that all participants provided written informed consent before undergoing any study-specific procedure.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.3.2.2 Interpretation of test results: The usability study also included a test result interpretation exercise during which the observer instructed the participant to randomly select 1 of 4 contrived self-tests (1 negative, 2 positive and 1 invalid), read it and give his/her interpretation of the result.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In the test, SARS-CoV-2 antigens in the sample interact with monoclonal anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies to form a coloured antibody-antigen complex.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: We created an anonymous version of the study questionnaire using google forms and all the participants provided informed consent to participate in the study.<br>IRB: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (reference number; 370, 02-09-2021).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Our study had certain limitations. Our study population was large, but not representative since we used a convenience sample. For instance, the proportion of women, people with a high level of education, and workers in healthcare facilities was considerably higher in our study compared to the general population in Greece. Moreover, online surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic are a rational approach but diminish the representativeness of the study population since individuals with limited internet access are less likely to participate. Additionally, the response rate and the profile of non-correspondents cannot be estimated in online surveys. Thus, it would be wise not to generalize our conclusions but to carry out studies with more representative samples. Information bias was possible in our study since the study questionnaire was self-administered and we cannot objectively verify self-reported vaccination. Anonymity in our study may have reduced this information bias. Finally, we have investigated several factors that may affect individuals’ decision to uptake a COVID-19 vaccine, but there may be other factors influencing this decision.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 6. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our analysis has several important limitations. We relied on case surveillance data to determine the number of new cases and the transmission indicator of COVID-19 over time. This means we did not account for asymptomatic infection, which may be a strong driver of COVID-19 transmission, and could have impacted the conclusions of our study. Relying on case surveillance data may also underestimate the actual number of new cases in settings where symptomatic individuals did not seek testing or where testing capacity is constrained by inaccessibility or shortage of supply of resources. Three regional health authorities were not included in the assessment of regional associations of contact rates to COVID-19 dynamics - the Northern, Interior and Vancouver Island Health Authorities. These health authorities have relatively smaller population sizes, are sparsely populated with many rural communities and have reported smaller numbers of COVID-19 cases, which may have also been underestimated due to limited testing in some remote communities [16, 31]. There were not enough self-reported contact rate data points to explore relations between close contacts and COVID-19 dynamics for these regional health authorities during the period that we studied. As a result, this study may underrepresent rural populations in BC. Limitations of the survey of self-reported contact rates that may affect our analysis, are provided in [Prince_paper]. For instance, some population groups including the eco...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21264048: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Selection of studies: We included randomized controlled trials (RCTs), cohort studies, and case-control studies that evaluated the efficacy or effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against VOC including B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), P.1 (Gamma), and B.1.617.2 (Delta).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We searched for literature published on PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and the ClinicalTrials.gov website on or before 4 August 2021.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Embase</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane Library</div><div>suggested: (Cochrane Library, RRID:SCR_013000)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The risk of bias of RCTs was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration’s tool [24, 25].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane Collaboration’s tool</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All the analysis were performed with STATA 14.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This systematic review and meta-analysis has some limitations. First, 21% of studies (7 of 33) are nonrandomized. The imbalance between groups in observational studies is a concern, so potential selection bias may be existent. Second, 30% of studies (10 of 33) are preprints and have not been certified by peer review. We may not identify errors in data analysis or reporting due to the lack of a rigorous vetting process. Third, although we performed qualitative analysis by different stratifications, heterogeneity was still high in most quantitative analysis. Forth, VE against hospitalization or death related to VOC is not included in our analysis. Finally, the evidence of COVID-19 vaccines against Gamma and Delta variants is not enough, more research is needed in the future.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263845: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Human Participants: All research was approved by the Emory University Institutional Review Board (Emory IRB nos.<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants or, if they were unable to provide informed consent, from designated healthcare surrogates</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Adults aged ≥18 years with documented SARS-CoV-2 antigen or anti-nucleocapsid antibody (64%), or those meeting the CDC COVID-19 clinical case definition who were experiencing new or worsening symptoms and were >14 days from COVID-19 onset (36%) were eligible.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-nucleocapsid</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Thawed plasma was aliquoted and distributed for the following tests: anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) (QUANTA Lite; Inova Diagnostics) and indirect immunofluorescence (IFA) (NOVA Lite; Inova</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-nuclear</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">a Diagnostics); anti-double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) antibodies were also measured by ELISA and were confirmed by IFA with Crithidia luciliae; extractable nuclear antigen autoantibodies (anti-Sm, anti-SS-B/La IgG, anti-Scl-70 IgG, anti-U1RNP IgG, anti-RNP70 IgG, anti-CENP IgG, anti-Jo-1 IgG, and anti-CCP IgG) as well as Rheumatoid Factor (RF) IgA and IgM were measured using the EliA test on the Phadia 250 platform (ThermoFisher Scientific); IgG, IgM, and IgA isotypes of anti-cardiolipin and anti-β2-glycoprotein, as well as anti-Ro52, anti-Ro60, anti-GBM, anti-PR3, and anti-MPO were measured using a chemiluminescence immunoassay (BIO-FLASH; Inova Diagnostics); anti-CarP, anti-RNA-pol-III, and the IgG and IgM isotypes of anti-PS/PT were measured by ELISA (QUANTA Lite; Inova Diagnostics), while C- and P-ANCA were measured by IFA (NOVA Lite; Inova Diagnostics).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-double-stranded DNA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>dsDNA</div><div>suggested: (GenWay Biotech Inc. Cat# 18-511-244499-2 ml, RRID:AB_1021324)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Sm, anti-SS-B/La IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Scl-70 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-U1RNP IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RNP70 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CENP IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Jo-1 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CCP IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-cardiolipin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-β2-glycoprotein</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Ro52</div><div>suggested: (Antibodies-Online Cat# ABIN284731, RRID:AB_10773266)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Ro60</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-GBM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-PR3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-MPO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CarP, anti-RNA-pol-III,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-PS/PT</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PASC Participants: Patients with PASC (n=95) were referred by primary care providers or by self-referral to Emory University Midtown, Emory University Executive Park, and Grady Memorial Hospital PASC Clinics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PASC</div><div>suggested: (PASC , RRID:SCR_016642)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All Participants: Peripheral blood was collected in either heparin sodium tubes (PBMCs) or serum tubes (serum; both BD Diagnostic Systems).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Diagnostic Systems</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at Emory University.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REDCap</div><div>suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">a Diagnostics); anti-double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) antibodies were also measured by ELISA and were confirmed by IFA with Crithidia luciliae; extractable nuclear antigen autoantibodies (anti-Sm, anti-SS-B/La IgG, anti-Scl-70 IgG, anti-U1RNP IgG, anti-RNP70 IgG, anti-CENP IgG, anti-Jo-1 IgG, and anti-CCP IgG) as well as Rheumatoid Factor (RF) IgA and IgM were measured using the EliA test on the Phadia 250 platform (ThermoFisher Scientific); IgG, IgM, and IgA isotypes of anti-cardiolipin and anti-β2-glycoprotein, as well as anti-Ro52, anti-Ro60, anti-GBM, anti-PR3, and anti-MPO were measured using a chemiluminescence immunoassay (BIO-FLASH; Inova Diagnostics); anti-CarP, anti-RNA-pol-III, and the IgG and IgM isotypes of anti-PS/PT were measured by ELISA (QUANTA Lite; Inova Diagnostics), while C- and P-ANCA were measured by IFA (NOVA Lite; Inova Diagnostics).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ThermoFisher Scientific)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263900: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Full methodologic details are included in Supplemental Material The study was approved by the Mass General Brigham Institutional Review Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has important limitations. Although contact-tracing information was recorded in real time, districts may have inferred missing data inaccurately, with potential for recall bias. These data are derived from the 2020-21 school year, before the emergence of the more-transmissible delta variant. We lacked sufficient data to assess other potentially confounding factors, such as duration of exposure, classroom distancing, ventilation, and classroom density. Notably, all reported classroom exposures were masked, so these results do not directly inform the impact of masking within classrooms. The generalizability of these data for the 2021-22 year is uncertain. Most schools are now resuming full in-person learning with greater classroom density, reduced distancing, and variable approaches to masking. While community and student/staff vaccination should reduce the number of people entering school buildings with SARS-CoV-2 infection, this impact may be offset by reduced mitigation measures and more transmissible variants.4 Ongoing surveillance of in-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission is critical to inform decisions about school-based mitigation measures as the pandemic evolves.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263713: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Board of St.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Shelter population was categorized by groups (youth, single adults and families) and gender (men, women and mixed).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analyses were performed using SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263946: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. We defined diseases based on ICD codes in insurance claims data. There may be additional unmeasured confounders influencing our results, including genetic polymorphisms, smoking, body mass index and the exposure of the virus. In this study as well, the infection rate of COVID-19 may have been influenced by the degree of exposure to the COVID-19 virus as an important factor in addition to the comorbidity factors. However, in this study, the influence of COVID-19 itself could be confirmed because the bias was less than that of previous studies. First, South Korea has a population of more than 95% of one race, hence there is minimal racial bias compared to previous studies. Second, because the government funds treatment for COVID-19 infection in South Korea, and the medical facilities for COVID-19 treatment are ubiquitous, there is minimal economic bias. Third, because the PS matching was performed on sex, age, CCI, and comorbidity, selection bias was also minimized. Therefore, more accurate information on the infection rate and disease severity of COVID-19 according to comorbidities could be provided in this study. In conclusion, certain comorbidities, known as risk factors in previous studies, increase the infection rate and severity of COVID-19; hyperlipidemia decreases the infection rate and severity. These results can be utilized to effectively manage COVID-19 infections.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.23.21264032

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21264032: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our model has several limitations, some of which are addressed in other mathematical models developed during this pandemic. First, our model does not consider the population heterogeneity, which has been shown to reduce the required number of vaccinated individuals to achieve herd immunity (7). Second, we do not consider seasonality (6), although the seasonal trend for SARS-CoV-2 is still unclear at this point. Third, SARS-CoV-2 infections that are not reported were not included in the model and may vary based on ascertainment rates (17). Lastly, we focused the application on modeling the currently dominant delta variant in the US as of September 2021. While the analyses herein utilized the immunity parameters for the BNT162b2 vaccine and the delta variant, our model can be applied to model other vaccines and emerging virus strains in different populations. Overall, our results demonstrated that the trajectory of a pandemic is heavily influenced by natural and vaccine-induced immunity given a dominant virus strain’s level of infectiousness and response to vaccines. As variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged (18), VOCs capable of higher transmission rates and immune evasion may continue to arise (19-21). Tempering the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants will require enhanced global efforts on sequencing and variant detection, establishing reproducible analysis pipelines, and rapid sharing of data across geographical boundaries (22). Given that asymptomatic but infected virus carriers ca...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21263927: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study had several limitations. First, our study cohort, consisting of 168 subjects, is small. Cohort size can affect the relationship between predisposing factors and antibody titers. Second, we did not evaluate cell-mediated immunity in our study. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines induce both cell-mediated and humoral immunity [20]. Thus, evaluating cell-mediated immunity contributes to a more thorough analysis of vaccine effectiveness.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Some limitations exist in this study. First, the effects of other interventions (e.g. increasing number of PCR tests performed and improvement of medical treatment) on the iCFR were not considered. There are minor variations in the weekly number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the eight European countries during the study period40. To avoid the effects caused by the variation of medical treatment and NPIs, we used the data during the first wave of the pandemic when the changes in interventions were minor (when Re was stable and near one). Second, the data of indoor temperature and humidity are not available. It is reasonable to believe that the house indoor temperature and humidity are largely affected by the weather in Europe where air-conditioners or heaters are not frequently used at home during our study period. Thus, there is a monotonic relationship between house indoor condition and weather. Third, we cannot rule out the effect of certain confounding factors related to personal behaviours. (e.g. the dry air in winter can irritate people’s airways, which triggers more people to be cautious and reduce outdoor activities). In addition, because in some countries, many cases were confirmed and isolated in hospitals around two days after symptom onset on average (see Figure 1B), hence their environmental exposure would mainly be determined by the hospital air conditioning system. Therefore, we only assess the impact of weather exposure no longer than that time.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.23.21263864

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This project was approved by the Stanford University Institutional Review Board (Protocol ID 47191, “Public Health Surveillance in the Department of Veterans Affairs” and written informed consent was waived.<br>Consent: This project was approved by the Stanford University Institutional Review Board (Protocol ID 47191, “Public Health Surveillance in the Department of Veterans Affairs” and written informed consent was waived.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.23.21263948

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21263948: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Any selection bias in data collection was taken care of by random sampling for the confounding factors (age, sex, date of collection, and geographical location).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The statistical tests were performed to evaluate inter-group differences with the help of MS Excel 2019 and XLSTAT package.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>XLSTAT</div><div>suggested: (XLSTAT, RRID:SCR_016299)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations of the study: Our study has multiple limitations, which need to be considered while interpreting the findings. Firstly, our data for reporting post-vaccination infections and patient statuses are limited, hence related observations may need further validation from the studies with larger sample size. Secondly, our data for the vaccination status details were not available in most of the accessed genomic sequence reports, hence our data for the post-vaccination infections doesn’t reflect on the prevalence of such cases in the total population. Lastly, we have not taken into account the influence of the confounding factors, such as, comorbidities, vaccination status, and previous COVID-19 infection, etc., on clinical outcomes of the studied cases, which may have influenced the quality of the results.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To identify the processes encoded by the upregulated genes, we used the publicly available protocol in Metascape (www.metascape.org/; [55]).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>www.metascape.org/</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.1 Multiple sequence alignment: In order to assess the conservation among the coronavirus Orf3a-proteins, a protein-protein BLAST (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BLAST</div><div>suggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Using a threshold of 75% sequence identity as filters, we aligned the resulting sequences using the online alignment tool Clustal Omega [31] and was visualized with Jalview (www.jalview.org).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Clustal Omega</div><div>suggested: (Clustal Omega, RRID:SCR_001591)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Jalview</div><div>suggested: (Jalview, RRID:SCR_006459)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All the homology modelling procedures have been performed using MODELLER [36] and SWISS-MODEL [37].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MODELLER</div><div>suggested: (MODELLER, RRID:SCR_008395)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Model refinement and further structural fine-tuning of unreliable structural regions were done using the GalaxyWeB server [38].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GalaxyWeB</div><div>suggested: (GalaxyWEB, RRID:SCR_018558)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The structures obtained were validated by scores obtained from the MolProbity [39,40].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MolProbity</div><div>suggested: (MolProbity, RRID:SCR_014226)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The structural models of proteins and lipids were presented using the CHARMM36 force field parameters [44,45] and NAMD 2.12 [46,47] was used to run the molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NAMD</div><div>suggested: (NAMD, RRID:SCR_014894)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, RMSD, RMSF and solvent accessible surface area (SASA) of specific pore forming residues were analysed with respect to time steps as obtained from the results of the NAMD simulation in VMD [51] interface and snapshots of the timesteps were represented and visualized using Chimera 1.10 [52].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Chimera</div><div>suggested: (Chimera, RRID:SCR_002959)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data was downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus library [ID: GSE152586] and preprocessing of the fastq files were performed.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gene Expression Omnibus</div><div>suggested: (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, RRID:SCR_005012)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The DESeq2 package in R BioConductor (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/DESeq2.html) was used to analyze the data.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioConductor</div><div>suggested: (Bioconductor, RRID:SCR_006442)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For dimensional reduction and outlier identification, we performed a principal component analysis (PCA) on the DESeq2 data class of count reads.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To identify the processes encoded by the upregulated genes, we used the publicly available protocol in Metascape (www.metascape.org/; [55]).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Metascape</div><div>suggested: (Metascape, RRID:SCR_016620)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We annotated the functions encoded by the genes using the following gene ontology enrichment: Biological processes, Cellular components, Molecular components, KEGG pathway and Reactome pathways.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Reactome</div><div>suggested: (Reactome, RRID:SCR_003485)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Indeed, our studies are in silico and have limitations of being non-experimental from an in vitro and in vivo standpoint. However, the impact of ionic imbalances in cellular micro-environment as a result of viral infections and viroporins have been studied in great detail earlier. One immediate observation comes from the previous SARS strain, the SARS-CoV-1. It was shown that E protein localized in the ERGIC membrane, and facilitated the movement of Ca2+ ions into the cytosol [69]. On the other hand, the Orf3a localized at the Golgi apparatus and the plasma membrane, transported K+ ions [70]. A proper regulation of airway epithelial ionic balance is indispensable for healthy homoeostasis in the lungs. A tight regulation of cationic and anionic ion channels controls the ionic homeostasis in the airways which can be correlated to complex pathological features in lung diseases [71]. Viroporins localized in the subcellular membranes of these lung airway epithelial cells is the primary cause of ionic imbalance and thus can be potential therapeutic targets against ARDS, which is the primary reason for fatality in SARS-CoV-2 infection [72,73]. Transcriptomics analysis from patient samples affected with SARS-CoV-2 showed an upregulation in inflammatory response mediated by several interleukins and interferons [74] which are probably regulated by NFκB [75]. Increase in CD40 [76], IL-6 [77], IL-12 [78] and IL-33 [79] transcripts strongly correlate with similar expression patterns of di...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 41 and 43. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study had ethical approval from the West Midlands Research Ethics Committee (REC Reference 20/WM/0153).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analyses were performed using STATA version 14.2</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">(StataCorp United States) and Excel version 2016 (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Excel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (reference No. R2-079).<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained using a form on the survey website.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A total of 22,388 individuals (10,901 males and 11,487 females) were included in this analysis.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study had some limitations. First, because it was a survey of Internet monitors, a degree of selection bias could not be unavoided. To minimize this, we selected subjects based on their region, occupation, and prefecture in terms of infection rate. Second, given the cross-sectional design, we could not determine the causal relationship between support for workers with illness and work functioning impairment. Workers with mild work functioning impairment who are able to work may receive support more readily. Third, we did not identify workers’ symptoms or disease in our study. The effect of support on the improvement in work functioning impairment may depend on the type and degree of illness or symptoms exhibited by workers, combined with their job and tasks. In conclusion, this study showed that there is a relationship between support for workers with illness and work functioning impairment in a large population of workers across Japan. Workers with illnesses who felt they were receiving support from their companies were less likely to have work functioning impairment than those who reported not receiving support. These results suggest that support for workers with illnesses may improve their work functioning impairment. Clinical Relevance: This study revealed a relationship between support for workers with illness and work functioning impairment. While workers continue to work with illnesses has been increasing, this survey shows the importance for companies to support ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics statement: This study was approved by Yokohama City University Certified Institutional Review Board (Reference No. B210300001), and the protocols used in the study were approved by the ethics committee.<br>Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from all the participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We calculated NT50 using the curve-fitting tool (ImageJ, NIH).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ImageJ</div><div>suggested: (ImageJ, RRID:SCR_003070)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Each participant gave a digitally signed informed consent to participate.<br>IRB: The study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the Medical University of Innsbruck (AT, approval number: 1257/2020) and of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol (IT: 0150701).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The most important study limitation is a possible participants’ selection bias. The respondents showed good mental health before COVID-19, and it is likely that predominantly individuals with severe or persistent symptoms and high health-awareness completed the survey(10). Furthermore, individual variability of the clinical onset – survey time may have affected some of the investigated parameters even though their impact on the mental health rating was minimal. Notably, the respective observation time variable was included in the multi-parameter models (11).
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04661462</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Health After Covid-19 in Tyrol</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Meanwhile, a follow-up telephone call was performed as per as oral consent form guidelines of Ayass Bioscience Laboratory to address the questions of COVID-19 immunization, travel, and positive contact history, etc. 121 of 166 cases responded to our call and completed the questionnaires.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">There were 166 cases randomly selected from COVID-19 positive cases of real-time polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) assay run on the fully automated STEPONEPLUS System from Applied Biosystem.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analyses were performed on SPSS for Windows (version 23 Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There are some limitations in this study. First, we were unable to examine patients’ neutralizing antibody were present after the first and second dose of vaccine, or the baseline antibody test before illness and after vaccination. Second, we were unable to conduct the physical examination, blood work, or access to patients’ medical record. We are therefore unable to obtain additional information to analyze CT values and its risk factors.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: Ethical Statement: The investigators adhered fully to the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” by the Committee on Care of Laboratory Animal Resources Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Each group consisted of both male and female cynomolgus macaques (n = 3 for each formulation) weighing between 2.8 and 8.2 kg.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bound IgG was detected using 1μg/mL red phycoerythrin (R-PE)-conjugated goat anti-human IgG antibodies (Jackson ImmunoResearch, Inc., West Grove, PA) and resuspended in MAGPIX® drive fluid before being analyzed on a MAGPIX® Instrument (Luminex Corporation, Austin, TX).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">1 variant, hCoV-19/Japan/TY7-501/2021, TY7-501 (BIOQUAL-generated stock [lot no. 031921-1215] in Calu-3 cells from seed stock no.TY7-501 was performed with an inoculum dose of 5×105 TCID50/mL administered to each animal in volumes of 1 mL by intratracheal and intranasal injection at each site.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibody-virus complexes were added to Vero cell monolayers in 6-well plates and incubated at 37°C for another hour followed by addition of overlay media mixed with 1% agarose.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The TCID50 assay was conducted by addition of 10-fold graded dilutions of samples to Vero TMPRSS2 cell monolayers.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The serum-virus mixtures were added to a monolayer of confluent Vero E6 cells and incubated for one hour at 37°C in 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recombinant S protein was purified from clarified cell culture supernatants by immunoaffinity chromatography (IAC) using the SARS-CoV-2 cross-reactive mAb CR3022 (provided by Mapp Biopharmaceutical) coupled to NHS-activated Sepharose at a concentration of 10 mg/mL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Mapp Biopharmaceutical</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resulting MFI values were plotted against the Log10-transformed concentrations and fitted using a sigmoidal dose-response, variable slope model (GraphPad Prism, San Diego, CA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical analysis was completed using Graphpad Prism 9 software (San Diego, CA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The small size of our treatment groups (n=3) is a limitation of our study and may therefore not provide enough statistical power to strongly correlate antibody concentrations to viral load or histopathology score. Furthermore, we cannot directly compare the outcome of our study to other studies that evaluate vaccine efficacy soon after the final booster when immunity is greatest, as vaccine efficacy is known to decline over time. Likewise, we could not benchmark the efficacy of our vaccine formulation when the immunity is greatest at week 5, however, our late challenge scheme accurately reflects the current urgent need for decisions about timing and candidates for possible booster vaccinations during the pandemic situation as it provides useful information regarding the real-life durability and breadth of vaccine protection. It furthermore may shed light into the utility of protein vaccines to serve as prime or boost in combination with other vaccines. In conclusion, we show that a two-dose regimen of a prefusion-stabilized trimeric S subunit protein vaccine formulated with lyophilizable CoVaccine HT™ adjuvant reduces viral burden and high antigen doses can confer durable cross-variant immunity. Future efforts will therefore focus on developing a thermostabilized vaccine formulation in a single-vial presentation, potentially enabling facile worldwide distribution.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Following three more HBS-T washes, 0.2 μg/mL of a secondary anti-mouse IgG antibody linked to alkaline phosphatase (Sigma #A9316) was incubated for 30 minutes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>a secondary anti-mouse IgG antibody</div><div>suggested: (Molecular Probes Cat# A-31553, RRID:AB_221604)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# A9316, RRID:AB_258446)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In the case of fluorescent-conjugated tetramer staining, cells were finally resuspended in 1% BSA in PBS, while in the case of Fc fusion protein staining, cells were stained with secondary antibody conjugated to AlexaFluor 647 against human IgG-gamma1 (Jackson #109-605-006), washed, and then resuspended.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human IgG-gamma1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Coverslips were then incubated in TBS + 2% BSA containing the indicated dilution of primary rabbit anti-human LRRC15 antibody (ab150376) for 1 h at room temperature, washed three times in TBS + 2% BSA, incubated for 30 minutes in TBS + 2% BSA containing highly cross-adsorbed goat anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 555 conjugated secondary antibody (2 μg/mL) and DAPI (0.2 μg/mL), then washed three times in TBS and once in distilled water prior to mounting slides with Prolong Glass (Thermo Fisher) followed by overnight curing.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human LRRC15</div><div>suggested: (Creative Biomart Cat# CPBT-54314RH, RRID:AB_11420140)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blocked membranes were incubated with primary antibody (LRRC15 [LSBio aa393-422], ACE2 [Abcam Ab108252], GAPDH [GeneTex GTX627408]) in 5% milk +PBST (PBS + 0.2% (v/v) Tween-20) at 4°C overnight, then incubated with peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated secondary antibodies (Peroxidase AffiniPure Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG (H+L) [Jackson ImmunoResearch 111-035-144], Peroxidase AffiniPure</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GAPDH</div><div>suggested: (GeneTex Cat# GTX627408, RRID:AB_11174761)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: (Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs Cat# 111-035-144, RRID:AB_2307391)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293 cell culturing: For both binding assays and the production of recombinant proteins, suspension HEK293-E cells (Durocher et al., 2002) were grown in Freestyle media (Gibco #12338018) supplemented with 1% (m/v</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 S1-Fc protein was purified from serum-free supernatant of transfected 293T cells by Protein A affinity chromatography using hiTrap MabSelect PrismA columns (GE Healthcare) and the Äkta-Pure liquid chromatography system.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 1018, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK-293T and hTERT RPE-1 cells were grown in Dulbecco Modified Eagle Media (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">VSV-G lentiviruses were produced by transfection of HEK293T cells with a lentiviral expression vector and packaging vectors pCMVΔR8.91 and pMD.G at a DNA ratio of 3:2:1 using TranslT-293 (Mirus) following the manufacturers recommendation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Production of SARS-CoV-2 viral stocks: A total of 1 μg of pCCI-4K-SARS-CoV-2-ZsGreen plasmid DNA and 3 μL of Lipofectamine LTX with 3 μL of PLUS reagent in 100 μL optiMEM were used to transfect BHK-21 cells (ECACC) in 6-well plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BHK-21</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 microscopy infection assays: RPE-1 or CaLu-3 cell lines were seeded into CellCarrier-96 Black optically clear bottom plates (Perkin Elmer) at a density of either ×1×104 cells/well 24 h prior to infection or ×5×104 cells/well 72 h prior to infection respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CaLu-3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Individual CRISPRa guides were cloned into pCRISPRia-v2 (Addgene #84832).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCRISPRia-v2</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_84832)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ACE2 and LRRC15 cDNAs were cloned into pHRSIN-cSGW vectors expressing puromycin, blasticidin or hygromycin resistance cassettes driven by a pGK promoter.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHRSIN-cSGW</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">VSV-G lentiviruses were produced by transfection of HEK293T cells with a lentiviral expression vector and packaging vectors pCMVΔR8.91 and pMD.G at a DNA ratio of 3:2:1 using TranslT-293 (Mirus) following the manufacturers recommendation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCMVΔR8.91</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMD.G</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Production of SARS-CoV-2 viral stocks: A total of 1 μg of pCCI-4K-SARS-CoV-2-ZsGreen plasmid DNA and 3 μL of Lipofectamine LTX with 3 μL of PLUS reagent in 100 μL optiMEM were used to transfect BHK-21 cells (ECACC) in 6-well plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCCI-4K-SARS-CoV-2-ZsGreen</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For data analysis, single-end 35 bp reads were trimmed down to the variable sgRNA segment using FASTX-Toolkit and aligned to an index of all sequences in the library using Bowtie 2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bowtie</div><div>suggested: (Bowtie, RRID:SCR_005476)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phylogenetics analysis: Homologs for LRRC15 were identified by BLAST searches against the human LRRC15 amino acid sequence, filtering for species reported to be potential SARS-CoV-2 hosts (Liu et al., 2021; Mahdy et al., 2020).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BLAST</div><div>suggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Multiple sequence alignments were done by the Clustal Omega algorithm using default parameters (Madeira et al., 2019).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Clustal Omega</div><div>suggested: (Clustal Omega, RRID:SCR_001591)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phylogenetic trees were drawn using Jalview (v. 2.11.1.4) from average distance calculations based on the BLOSUM62 substitution matrix.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Jalview</div><div>suggested: (Jalview, RRID:SCR_006459)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The data were visualized with the Scanpy package (v. 1.4.5) in Python (v. 3.7.4)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">These data were exported as .fcs files and analysed in FlowJo.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 36. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: Animal studies were carried out at Galveston National Laboratory at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, an AAALAC accredited (November 24, 2020) and PHS OLAW approved (February 26, 2021) high-containment National Laboratory, based on a protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at UTMB at Galveston.<br>IACUC: Animal studies were carried out at Galveston National Laboratory at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, an AAALAC accredited (November 24, 2020) and PHS OLAW approved (February 26, 2021) high-containment National Laboratory, based on a protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at UTMB at Galveston.<br>IRB: All animal procedures and operations were approved by the ethical committee of Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Rhesus macaques were randomly divided into control group, low-dose (10 mg/kg of 2G1) and high-dose (50 mg/kg of 2G1) groups with one male and one female in each.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Rhesus macaques were randomly divided into control group, low-dose (10 mg/kg of 2G1) and high-dose (50 mg/kg of 2G1) groups with one male and one female in each.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Biotin labeled RBD (Sino Biological), PE labeled streptavidin (ThermoFisher) and 7AAD (BD) Single memory B cells with potential SARS-CoV-2 antibody secretion were sorted out by gating 7AAD-, CD19+, CD27+, IgG+, and RBD+ using a BD Aria III cell sorter with fluorescence-activated cell sorting modules.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD27+ , IgG+</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The transfection efficiency was examined by flow cytometry using S1-mFc recombinant protein (Sino Biological) as primary antibody and FITC-AffiniPure Goat Anti-Mouse IgG (Jackson) as secondary antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antigen-binding ELISA: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) were applied to study the binding ability of antibodies with SARS-CoV-2 RBDs (Sino Biological) and S trimers (AcroBiosystems).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antigen-binding ELISA</div><div>suggested: (Ling-Chu Hung / Animal Health Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan Cat# 12-Hung-03 m& 20 ORF3 7D3, RRID:AB_2827541)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After pipetting off the unbound antibodies, plates were washed 4 times with PBST and further incubated with 100 μL per well of goat anti-human IgG (Fc specific)-Peroxidase antibody (1: 5000 dilution, Sigma) for 1 h at 37°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG ( Fc specific)-Peroxidase</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ACE2 competition ELISA: For experiments involving the competitive binding of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 RBD or S trimer, recombinant hACE2-Fc protein was first biotinylated using EZ-Link Sulfo-NHS-Biotin (ThermoFisher) as the instruction described.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sulfo-NHS-Biotin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis (ADCP): In ADCP experiment, CD14+ monocytes (Allcells) were cultured and differentiated for 7 days to obtain macrophage cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis ( ADCP)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing, a Goat Anti-human Fc HRP (Sigma) was used as secondary antibody with 1:6000 dilutions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-human Fc HRP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, HEK-293T cells (ATCC) with 70% - 80% confluence in a 10 cm dish were co-transfected with 12 μg of plasmid pHIV-puro encoding RRE and ACE2 genes, 8 μg of plasmid psPAX2 encoding gag and pol, and 4 μg of plasmid VSV-G encoding G glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus(VSVG) using Lipofectamine 3000 Reagent (Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">500 μL of filtered lentivirus supernatant was added in a 24-well plate with Jurkat cells (ATCC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Jurkat</div><div>suggested: TKG Cat# TKG 0209, RRID:CVCL_0065)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The culture medium of ACE2-293T cells was removed and then replaced by the antibody-pseudovirus mixture.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2-293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The mixture was then added into a 96-well plate covered with Vero cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This recombinant S protein was overexpressed using the HEK 293F mammalian cells (Invitrogen) at 37°C under 5% CO2 in a Multitron-Pro shaker (Infors, 130</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK 293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pharmacokinetic study and toxicity test: For the pharmacokinetic study, BALB/c mice were tail intravenously injected with 2G1 (15, 30, or 60 mg/kg), or equivalent volume of PBS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BALB/c</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">mAb preparation: Heavy chains and light chain genes were inserted separately into pcDNA3.4 and amplified in E. coli DH5α.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA3.4</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_131198)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, HEK-293T cells (ATCC) with 70% - 80% confluence in a 10 cm dish were co-transfected with 12 μg of plasmid pHIV-puro encoding RRE and ACE2 genes, 8 μg of plasmid psPAX2 encoding gag and pol, and 4 μg of plasmid VSV-G encoding G glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus(VSVG) using Lipofectamine 3000 Reagent (Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>psPAX2</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12260)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VSV-G</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_138479)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">S protein over-expression cells: The coding sequence for full-length wild-type S protein (GenBank: QHD43416.1) from Met1 to Thr1273 was inserted into plasmid pHIV-puro1.0, followed by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and puromycin resistance gene.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-puro1.0</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Expression and purification of S protein: The prefusion S extracellular domain (1-1208 a.a) (Genbank ID: QHD43416.1) was cloned into the pCAG vector (Invitrogen) with six proline substitutions at residues 817, 892, 899, 942, 986 and 98739, a “GSAS” substitution (instead of “RRAR”) at residues 682 to 685 and a C-terminal T4 fibritin trimerization motif followed by one Flag tag.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCAG</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_74288)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resulting bulk transfected population was sorted on a BD FACSJazz Cell Sorter (BD) with the BD FACS™ Sortware.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD FACS™</div><div>suggested: (BD FACS Aria II, RRID:SCR_018091)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were analyzed with GraphPad Prism Version 9.0.0 and EC50 values were determined using a four-parameter nonlinear regression.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 RBD (Sino Biological), S trimer (AcroBiosystems), mutated RBDs (Sino Biological), and mutated S trimers (AcroBiosystems) were coated onto High Binding ELISA 96-Well Plate (BEAVER).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AcroBiosystems</div><div>suggested: (ACRObiosystems, RRID:SCR_012550)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The defocus values were estimated with Gctf43. Particles for S in complex with 2G1 were automatically picked using Relion 3.0.644–47 from manually selected micrographs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Relion</div><div>suggested: (RELION, RRID:SCR_016274)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 17. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.24.461631: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identification of DEGs: The limma in R Bioconductor software package [48] was used to perform the identification of DEGs between COVID 19 samples and non COVID 19 samples.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>limma</div><div>suggested: (LIMMA, RRID:SCR_010943)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bioconductor</div><div>suggested: (Bioconductor, RRID:SCR_006442)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The DEGs are presented as volcano plots, generated using ggplot2 in the R software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ggplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">GO and REACTOME pathway enrichment analysis of DEGs: The g:Profiler (http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/) [50] is an online functional annotation tool to provide a comprehensive understanding of biological information of genes and proteins.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>g:Profiler</div><div>suggested: (G:Profiler, RRID:SCR_006809)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">GO term (http://www.geneontology.org) enrichment analysis is used broadly to classify the characteristic biological attributes of genes, gene products, and sequences, including biological process (BP), cell components (CC) and molecular function (MF) [51].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>http://www.geneontology.org</div><div>suggested: (Mouse Genome Informatics: The Gene Ontology Project, RRID:SCR_006447)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">REACTOME (https://reactome.org/) [52] pathway enrichment analysis demonstrates the enriched signaling pathways in DEGs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REACTOME</div><div>suggested: (Reactome, RRID:SCR_003485)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Construction of the PPI network and module analysis: The IMEx interactome (https://www.imexconsortium.org/) is a public database harboring known and predicted protein-protein interactions [53].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://www.imexconsortium.org/</div><div>suggested: (IMEx - The International Molecular Exchange Consortium, RRID:SCR_002805)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The network was then visualized using the Cytoscape 3.8.2 (http://www.cytoscape.org/) [54].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytoscape</div><div>suggested: (Cytoscape, RRID:SCR_003032)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We applied miRNet database (https://www.mirnet.ca/) [61] to integrate 14 miRNA databases (TarBase, miRTarBase, miRecords,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>miRecords</div><div>suggested: (miRecords, RRID:SCR_013021)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We applied NetworkAnalyst database (https://www.networkanalyst.ca/) [62] to integrate TF database (JASPER).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NetworkAnalyst</div><div>suggested: (NetworkAnalyst, RRID:SCR_016909)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are available in the GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) repository. [(GSE156063) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE156063)]</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gene Expression Omnibus</div><div>suggested: (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, RRID:SCR_005012)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: All procedures were approved by the OSU BSL3 Operations/Advisory Group, the OSU Institutional Biosafety Officer, and the OSU Institutional Biosafety Committee.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Membranes were incubated overnight with antibodies against CASP11 (Cell Signaling Technology, 14340), VWF (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibodies against CASP11 ( Cell Signaling Technology , 14340) , VWF</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sections were then transferred to blocking solution containing the primary antibody against IL1β (GeneTex, GTX74034), and incubated overnight at 4ºC.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IL1β</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GTX74034</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For IHC, Ly6G (Abcam, ab25377) and SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (GeneTex, GTX635686) primary antibodies were used.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ly6G</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab25377, RRID:AB_470492)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein ( GeneTex , GTX635686</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The tissues were first incubated with peroxide block buffer (Leica Microsystems), followed by incubation with the rabbit Caspase 4 antibody (Novus Bio NBP1-87681) at 1:700 dilution for 30mins, followed by DAB rabbit secondary reagents: polymer, DAB refine and hematoxylin (Leica Microsystems).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>rabbit Caspase 4</div><div>suggested: (Novus Cat# NBP1-87681, RRID:AB_11012097)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Non-mutated clones were propagated on Vero E6 cells stably expressing TMPRSS2 (provided by Dr. Shan-Lu Liu, The Ohio State University)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice: C57BL/6 wild-type (WT) mice were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Casp11-/- mice were generously given by Dr.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Casp11-/-</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gsdmd-/- mice were a gift from Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gsdmd-/-</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">K18-hACE2 mice40 were purchased from Jackson Laboratories.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>K18-hACE2</div><div>suggested: RRID:IMSR_GPT:T037657)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Densitometry analyses were performed by normalizing target protein bands to their respective loading control (β-Actin) using ImageJ software as previously described 19,42. ELISAs: Cytokine/chemoking ELISAs were performed on lung homogenates or macrophage supernatants using R&D Systems Duoset ELISA kits (IL-6, DY406;</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ImageJ</div><div>suggested: (ImageJ, RRID:SCR_003070)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Finally, Opal dyes (Opal 520 and 570 were used, Fisher Scientific; cat# NC1601877 and cat#NC601878) was then applied, 520 (Fisher Scientific; cat#NC1601877) diluted in RNAscope TSA buffer (Advanced Cell Diagnostics, cat# 322809) for 30 min at 40 C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Fisher Scientific</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific, RRID:SCR_008452)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flt1 mRNA expression was quantified using spot function in IMARIS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IMARIS</div><div>suggested: (Imaris, RRID:SCR_007370)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, raw RNAseq data (fastq) were aligned to mouse reference genome (GRCh38) using hisat2 (v2.1.0) 47 and converted to counts using the ‘subread’ package (v1.5.1) 48 in R.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>hisat2</div><div>suggested: (HISAT2, RRID:SCR_015530)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For data visualization, DESeq2 rlog transformation was used for principal component analysis (PCA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Functional enrichment performed with Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (Qiagen) to enrich for IPA Canonical Pathways, ‘clusterProfiler’ to generate enrichment maps 46, and EnrichR 50.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ingenuity Pathway Analysis</div><div>suggested: (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, RRID:SCR_008653)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EnrichR</div><div>suggested: (Enrichr, RRID:SCR_001575)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Stocks of these viruses were prepared by inoculation of Vero-TMPRSS2 cell cultures as described previously54.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1818, RRID:CVCL_YQ48)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">AAC is an 8,420-length vector in which each position corresponds to a sequence of three amino acids11.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>8,420-length</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In addition, the JM109 strain was transformed with 1 μg of the pBlueScript II SK+ plasmid (Invitrogen), which harbors an ampicillin resistance gene as a selection marker, and was then spread on LB agar plates containing ampicillin (100 μg/ml)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pBlueScript II SK+</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of a data set for the training phase of LIGHTHOUSE: The compound SMILES strings of the data set were extracted from the PubChem compound database on the basis of compound names and PubChem compound IDs (CIDs).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubChem</div><div>suggested: (PubChem, RRID:SCR_004284)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The protein sequences of the data set were extracted from the UniProt protein database on the basis of gene names/RefSeq accession numbers or the UniProt IDs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UniProt</div><div>suggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">With regard to IC50, we downloaded data from BindingDB, obtained SMILES expressions and amino acid sequences similarly, and again separated the data into training (80%), validation (10%), and test (10%) data sets (Extended Data Fig.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BindingDB</div><div>suggested: (BindingDB, RRID:SCR_000390)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of virtual chemical libraries and prediction by LIGHTHOUSE: We prepared nearly 1 billion purchasable substances, which were downloaded from the ZINC database23 as of 30 July 2020, for virtual PPAT inhibitor screening.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ZINC</div><div>suggested: (Zinc, RRID:SCR_008596)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resulting top 500 potential targets were then subjected to enrichment analyses with the use of the Metascape Web server53.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Metascape</div><div>suggested: (Metascape, RRID:SCR_016620)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitation of LIGHTHOUSE is the generation of false positives, which is due in part to the fact that the confidence score provided by STITCH is not based solely on experimental data but also on other factors such as co-occurrence in the literature. Well-studied molecules are thus prone to score higher than others. This drawback can be mitigated partially by combining the three different models (CNN, AAC, and Transformer). It may also be important to perform a counter-virtual screening to determine whether an identified small molecule reacts specifically with the target protein or whether it scores highly with many proteins. Such an approach has the potential to reduce the number of false positives and provide more accurate guidance. Despite this limitation, LIGHTHOUSE proved to be effective for the identification of lead compounds for all conditions tested. It can theoretically be applied to any protein of any organism, and even to proteins that do not exist naturally. This is an advantage over 3D docking simulation methods, which require prior 3D structural knowledge of the protein of interest. LIGHTHOUSE computes and embeds structural information in numerical vectors, which are then readily retrieved by the subsequent decoding module. Given the accelerating development of protein embedding technologies49 and graph-based chemoinformatics approaches, LIGHTHOUSE has the potential to be a cornerstone of drug discovery. In summary, we have developed LIGHTHOUSE as a means to di...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PubMed and the https://c19vitamind.com registry were searched according to Table 1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Linear regressions (OLS) and Pearson and Spearman correlations of vitamin D and the mortality values for the separate and combined datasets were generated with a Python 3.7 kernel using the scipy.stats 1.7.0 and statsmodels 0.12.2 libraries in a https://deepnote.com Jupyter notebook.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>scipy</div><div>suggested: (SciPy, RRID:SCR_008058)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: This study does not question the vital role that vaccination will play in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Nor does it claim that in the case of an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, a high boost of 25(OH)D3 is or could be a helpful remedy when vitamin D deficiency is evident, as this is another question. Furthermore, empirical data on COVID-19 mortality for vitamin D3 blood levels above 35 ng/ml are sparse.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The data collected for this study was readily available online for public use and thus an Institutional Review Board evaluation was not needed.<br>Consent: As this study collated and analyzed public data, there were no human subjects and thus no informed consent was necessary.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data was analyzed using the path analysis software, SPSS Amos (v 26).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data preprocessing and descriptive analyses were conducted using R version 4.0.2, running in RStudio Version 1.2.5033.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  As mentioned previously, the interpretation of the results is subjected to limitations of passive surveillance system. Moderna had the highest number of reports in VAERS among all cohorts. Most of the reports were from the 31-64 age group which is likely due to the initial authorization of vaccine for the 31-64 age group. The proportion of reports were equally divided among having recovered and not recovered from the adverse event across all cohorts. The proportion of death across COVID vaccines cohorts were comparable and may indicate the high fatality rate of the disease rather than the vaccines especially given that the COVID-19 vaccines were recently introduced and those with severe symptoms had earlier access to them than the general population. Across the five cohorts and age groups, common adverse events could be summarized as: central neuropathy, fever, headache, injection site, nonspecific musculoskeletal pain, chest pain. Except for chest pain, most of the adverse events were already identified in randomized controlled clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines. Our study provides an age-wise distribution of adverse events as reported in the VAERS database (Table 2). It is hoped that this information will assist some in overcoming their vaccine hesitancy due to safety concerns. Investigating rare side effects of any vaccine is a difficult task[28] due to the rarity of some side-effects, the longer period of manifestation for some side-effects, and lack of evidence for cau...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263866: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: All participant were recruited for this study following informed consent.<br>IRB: Ethical Consideration: This study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Universitas Airlangga Hospital (Ref. No: 110/KEP/2021).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This study is part of a cohort study of suspected COVID-19 cases in pregnant women in Universitas Airlangga Hospital (Surabaya, Indonesia) from April - August 2020.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This test is used to detect the IgM and IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV 2 in human serum, plasma, or whole blood.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study’s limitation is that the study population was all pregnant women with suspicion of COVID-19 infection. This matter will cause an unclear changes in clinical signs, laboratory, and additional examination because the control group was also a high-risk COVID-19 population. Furthermore, we cannot evaluate this screening method’s accuracy in the population of normal pregnant women (high and low risk) because of this inclusion criteria. We assume that the accuracy of this screening methods will be higher in the general population study. In a low middle income countries where the RT-PCR test was limited, the goverment can used the combined screening methods consist of clinical sign and symptoms, serological test, chest x-ray, and NLR to classify pregnant women with high risk of COVID-19 infection. Pregnant women with at least one sign from screening method can be further diagnose with RT-PCR test. This approach can be used in a limited resources hospital or health services in low middle income countries.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.17.21263549: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We searched for clinical trial efficacy results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals (PubMed, Google Scholar), preprint servers (medRxiv, bioRxiv), government public health agency websites, in news articles (Google), on the vaccine manufacturers’ websites, and in the databases of medical regulatory agencies (e.g., the US Food & Drug Administration or the European Medicines Agency).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Google Scholar</div><div>suggested: (Google Scholar, RRID:SCR_008878)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.18.21263550: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committees of Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital (2020-010).<br>Consent: Written informed consents were obtained from all patients.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA): RBD and nucleocapsid (N) specific binding immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies were measured according to the manufacture’s protocols (Sinobio).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell lines and viruses: African green monkey kidney Vero cell (ATCC, CCL-81) were obtained from ATCC, and 293 cells stably expressing ACE-2 (293-ACE-2) were obtained from Vazyme (Vazyme).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_DR94)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A total of 4 × 105 ACE2-293T cells (Vazyme) in 100μl complete media were added per well and incubated for 48h at 37°C and 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2-293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The mixture was added to Vero cells and incubated at 37°C and 5% CO2 for another 96 hours.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical tests were calculated using SPSS 20.0 for Windows (IBM).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.19.21262615: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Numpy v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Numpy</div><div>suggested: (NumPy, RRID:SCR_008633)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.1.348 was used to generate maximum likelihood phylogenies with 1000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates49, collapsing small branches, and using ModelFinder to identify the best fit nucleotide substitution model50.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ModelFinder</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Root-to-tip regression was conducted using SciPy v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SciPy</div><div>suggested: (SciPy, RRID:SCR_008058)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IQ-Tree was used to generate a maximum likelihood phylogeny of these sequences with the same parameters as described above and TreeTime was used to remove any samples falling outside four interquartile ranges of the expected molecular clock rate, rooted at the best fit root as identified by least-squares regression.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IQ-Tree</div><div>suggested: (IQ-TREE, RRID:SCR_017254)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bayesian phylogenetic inference was conducted using BEAST v2.6.654 with Beagle v3.1.255 and discrete trait estimation56 implemented in BEAST_CLASSIC v.1.50.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BEAST</div><div>suggested: (BEAST, RRID:SCR_010228)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Beagle</div><div>suggested: (BEAGLE, RRID:SCR_001789)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Downstream analysis of the TreeTime and BEAST output was conducted in Python using BioPython, Pandas, and NumPy.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioPython</div><div>suggested: (Biopython, RRID:SCR_007173)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Results were visualized using Baltic (https://github.com/evogytis/baltic), Matplotlib v.3.3.356, and Seaborn v.0.11.157.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Matplotlib</div><div>suggested: (MatPlotLib, RRID:SCR_008624)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This analysis was conducted in Python using Numpy, and Pandas.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">4.0.4 using RStudio v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">1.4.1106 with GGplot2 v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GGplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">” The variants in the mutational profile were annotated using snpEff v. 5.059.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>snpEff</div><div>suggested: (SnpEff, RRID:SCR_005191)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We removed non-human samples, those related to cruise ships, and samples with travel history and aligned them to Wuhan/Hu-1 with MAFFT with the same parameters described above.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAFFT</div><div>suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study benefited from linked clinical and epidemiological data for nearly half of the SARS-CoV-2 samples sequenced, but despite extensive chart review, we encountered limitations e.g. in reporting specific dates of travel and symptom onset. Thus, there is a need for a dedicated infrastructure for data collection in the setting of outbreak analysis, beyond routinely collected clinical data. In addition to evaluating SARS-CoV-2 introductions, our study also provides information regarding the dynamics of early SARS-CoV-2 lineages in the U.S. The 19B subclade that caused most of the infections described in this study appears to have spread from GA both domestically and internationally (e.g. to Australia) before dying out in April/May of 2020. The apparent extinction of this D614-containing 19B subclade occurred concurrently with the widely reported sweep of SARS-CoV-2 clades harboring the 614G mutation12. The increased transmission of 614G-containing viruses may be due to their ability to cause infection with higher viral loads23,25. We did not observe a difference in either viral load or subgenomic RNA in patients with D614 or 614G-containing viruses in this study, which may be due to small sample size. While the 19B subclade reported here was associated with limited forward transmission, we did not find strong evidence for ongoing transmission from the other observed introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into GA. However, we primarily analyzed only genomes collected through the end of...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21260526: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: All persons were given verbal information about the testing procedure and were asked for consent to participate in the study.<br>IRB: Ethical approval: Ethical approval was requested from the Sint Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) Medical Ethics Committee, who decided that ethical oversight was not required for this study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sample size calculation: Based on Buderer et al.,9 a minimal required sample size was calculated to accurately estimate the sensitivity and specificity of the RAT with a significance level of 5%.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: This test fits the WHO criteria (sensitivity of ≥80%, specificity of ≥97%) 8 and has been validated in the Netherlands among symptomatic persons.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical calculations were performed in Stata and SPSS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One limitation of this study was that it was unable to follow up persons before or after their test result. It is thus unknown whether PCR-positive persons were in the early or late stage of their infection and how the Abbott RAT performed in identifying people in their most contagious period. Further, symptoms were self-reported and may have been over-or underreported, which could have biased the difference in sensitivity between symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. One main implication of this study is that the Abbott RAT is not beneficial as a stand-alone test for asymptomatic people as it will miss approximately one out of three people with COVID-19 in this subgroup. The results show that approximately one out of ten positive individuals with symptoms will not be spotted with the RAT, which makes it an acceptable alternative for this subgroup. These findings confirm that COVID-19 RATs perform better among people with higher viral loads.15 Based on these findings, the public health authorities in Sint Maarten decided to perform the Abbott Panbio RAT among symptomatic people only, while remaining to test all people attending the test street regardless of symptoms with RT-PCR. In conclusion, the Abbott Panbio RAT is a valid and cheaper alternative to RT-PCR for detecting COVID-19 when used on symptomatic individuals among the general population. Taking into consideration the low cost, user-friendliness, and turnaround time, this test would also be beneficial to identify...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.23.21262329: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Amiens University Medical Center (number PI2020_843_0046, 21 April 2020).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">However when NP and S2 antibodies are concomitantly present, the cut-off is adjusted to 20 MSI.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For S1, RBD, and NTD antibodies a cut-off of 10 MSI is applied for SARS-CoV-2 positivity.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NTD</div><div>suggested: (Cell Signaling Technology Cat# 14958, RRID:AB_2687876)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263901: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.22.461342

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.461342: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.20.461073

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.461073: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Vero-E6 cells were obtained from ATCC (#CRL-1586).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263956: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.22.21263515

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263515: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">(MERV) rating, filter age and/or use, pressure drop, holding capacity, replacement, change frequency); ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, UVGI (power, dose, uniformity of dose, flow rate, bioaerosol inactivation efficiency, location); humidity or relative humidity.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Previous reviews have highlighted many challenges with studying outbreaks: Li et al [13] mentioned the “most inherent limitation in almost all existing investigations is due to the rapid disappearance of airborne evidence of infection, once the infectious period is over.” [13, p.14] They proposed as a solution “contemporaneous air-sampling and environmental measurements” [13, p.14] in locations during a patient’s illness, which could be extended to locations of high use or occupancy during a pandemic or seasonal epidemics. The strengths of this study include its comprehensiveness and use of methods to avoid bias, such as pre-specification of inclusion/exclusion criteria and involvement of at least two reviewers at all stages. The main limitation stems from the limits of the included reviews. We initially intended to include only systematic reviews that met internationally recognized definitions and methodological expectations. However, we relaxed our criteria given that many reviews did not meet this standard. While most reviews prespecified their research question and conducted a comprehensive search, few conducted study selection and data extraction in duplicate as recommended to avoid bias, and very few assessed the methodological quality or risk of bias of their included studies which is key to determining the validity and certainty of available evidence. We also did not find reviews of all HVAC design features, for example, none of the included reviews examined UVGI (tho...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.22.21263998

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263998: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Informed consent was confirmed by marking the consent checkbox on the questionnaire.<br>IRB: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) (NCGM-G-004121-00)</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were analyzed using Stata BE 17.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA) and R, version 4.0.5 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing; 2018, Vienna, Austria).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, this study relied on patient self-reports and, therefore, might have been subject to recall bias. Second, some patients reported on-going/chronic and late-onset symptoms at the time of the questionnaire survey. In these cases, the actual duration of the symptoms was unclear, and it is likely that this study underestimated the duration of these symptoms. Long-term observation is needed to better understand the duration of a long COVID. Third, although a previous study indicated that severity of illness was a risk factor for developing fatigue [2], being severe was not a risk factor for developing fatigue in this study. This is partly because most of the participants in our study were mild cases, and the number of severe cases was markedly small. Further studies are needed to clarify whether the severity of illness is a risk factor for the development and persistence of long COVID. In conclusion, our cross-sectional questionnaire survey evaluated patients after recovery from COVID-19, most of whom had mild disease, for the development and persistence of long COVID. Women were at risk for development of fatigue, dysosmia, dysgeusia, and hair loss, and were at risk for persistence of dysgeusia and any symptoms associated with COVID-19. Younger age and low BMI were found to be at risk of developing dysosmia and dysgeusia. In addition, about a quarter of the participants had at least one prolonged symptom for more than six months, indicatin...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Study Design and Population: This study was a secondary analysis of publicly available, de-identified data and was granted exemption status by the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division/University of Chicago Medical Center Institutional Review Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Our study has several limitations. First, we had zip code level (not patient-level) data which limited the study design and our ability to control for observed confounders. Second, unmeasured time-varying zip code level confounders could bias our difference-in-difference estimate. However, the parallel trends between high and low zip codes during the pre-spring wave period make confounding by time-invariant unobserved zip code variables unlikely. Finally, the data’s integrity depends on the accurate recording of the zip code of residence for both vaccinations and deaths in the city of Chicago database. Unhoused persons or people without a permanent address are unlikely to be recorded accurately in the data.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263964: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study adhered to Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guidelines and was exempted by the University of Pennsylvania and WCG Institutional Review Boards prior to study conduct owing to use of de-identified data only.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Covariates included age, gender, race (non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, or other), insurance type (commercial, government, or other), Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (<2 or ≥2), documented opioid medication order (yes or no), calendar day of metastatic cancer diagnosis, and cancer type.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>non-Hispanic White</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Our study has several limitations. First, it is a retrospective study of a sample of predominantly community-based US oncology practices, and therefore our findings may not be reflective of all oncology practice. However, this database has been shown to be broadly representative of US oncology practices and patients.41 Second, outpatient EHR data may incompletely capture important variables that contribute to treatment patterns, such as patient preference or comorbidities, thus raising the possibility of unmeasured confounding. However, our quasi-experimental approach should account for these unmeasured confounders, assuming such confounders were consistent across time periods. Third, while we used the most up-to-date data available, there may be COVID-related delays in data capture affecting completeness of data from more recent time-periods. In particular, the pandemic could impact capture of metastatic cancer diagnoses. While this remains a hypothetical concern, future analyses should address this possibility. Fourth, our cohort was limited by a relatively small proportion of racial minorities and those with noncommercial insurance. This may have resulted in limited power for analyses of race- or age-based interactions, though notably there was some, non-statistically significant, evidence of delayed treatment among African-American patients. Given the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on care for minority groups, future analyses with larger, more divers...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: A549 and derived cell lines (ACE2-expressing cell lines with or without CRISPRa expression and ΔSTAT150 counterparts) were validated by short tandem repeat (STR) analysis (all confirmed 100% match to A549, CVCL_0023).<br>Contamination: All cell lines were routinely tested (Boca Scientific #50-168-5641) negative for Mycoplasma contamination.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This transfection mix was added to 1.5×106 Lenti-X 293T cells (Takara Bio #632180, plated in 6 well plates 18 hours prior to transfection) in1 ml of 10% FBS DMEM for 8 hours after which transfection media was removed and replaced with 2ml of 10% FBS DMEM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of A549-SunTag and A549ΔSTAT1-SunTag cells: To generate A549-SunTag and A549ΔSTAT1-SunTag cells, we transduced A549 or A549ΔSTAT1 cells with lentiviruses encoding the Dox-inducible transactivator component of SunTag (pCW-TRE-scFv-SunTag).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549ΔSTAT1-SunTag</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549ΔSTAT1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Curation and Cloning of the ISG library: To assemble the list of ISGs targeted by the gRNA library, an established list of ISGs3,4 was combined with a list of genes upregulated (RNA-Seq log2 fold-change >2, adjusted p value < 0.05) after 6 or 48 hours of IFN stimulation in A549 cells50.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">At 72 hours post-infection, Vero-E6 cells were fixed in 4% Paraformaldehyde at room temperature for 24 hours, washed twice with PBS and stained with 1% Crystal violet (Sigma # C0775) for 15 minutes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of lentiviruses and viral transduction: To generate lentiviruses for gRNA or cDNA expression, a mix of 2.5μg of the desired transfer vector, 2μg psPAX2 and 0.8μg of pMD2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>psPAX2</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12260)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMD2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cloning of inducible CRISPRa-SunTag system components: To generate the plasmids for the inducible CRISPRa system, we re-engineered an existing CRISPRa technology45 to enable Dox-inducible expression and independent component construct antibiotic selection. pCW-TRE, a Dox-inducible expression vector, was generated by modifying pCW-Cas9-Blast (a gift from Mohan Babu, Addgene # 83481) to include a single BamHi site.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCW-Cas9-Blast</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_83481)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, the antibody component of the SunTag system (pHRdSV40-scFv-GCN4-sfGFP-VP64-GB1-NLS45, a gift from Ron Vale, Addgene #60904) was digested with EcoRI+NotI and subcloned into the blunted BamHi site of pCW-TRE.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCW-TRE</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The nuclease-inactive Cas9 fused to the SunTag scaffold (dCas9-SunTag derived from pHRdSV40-dCas9-10xGCN4_v4-P2A-BFP45, a gift from Ron Vale, Addgene #60903) was assembled in-frame with a hygromycin resistance gene into pHR-PGK (a gift from Wendell Lim, Addgene #7912093), generating pHR-PGK-dCas9-SunTag-P2A-HygR.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHRdSV40-dCas9-10xGCN4_v4-P2A-BFP45</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHR-PGK-dCas9-SunTag-P2A-HygR</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of A549-SunTag and A549ΔSTAT1-SunTag cells: To generate A549-SunTag and A549ΔSTAT1-SunTag cells, we transduced A549 or A549ΔSTAT1 cells with lentiviruses encoding the Dox-inducible transactivator component of SunTag (pCW-TRE-scFv-SunTag).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCW-TRE-scFv-SunTag</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of ACE2 expressing cell lines: To generate ACE2-expressing A549 cell lines, the human ACE2 coding sequence (RefSeq accession NM_001371415.1) was PCR amplified and cloned into the BamHi site of lentiviral vector pHR-PGK (Addgene #79120).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHR-PGK</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cloning procedures for individual guide RNAs: Cloning of individual gRNAs into CROP-seq-opti vectors was performed as previously described96,97.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CROP-seq-opti</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_106280)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Genetic sequences were synthesized/amplified with homology overhangs complementary to the overhangs of EcoRI+BamHi digested pLVX-TetOne-Puro (Takara # 631849).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLVX-TetOne-Puro</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_124797)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of ACE2 expressing cell lines: To generate ACE2-expressing A549 cell lines, the human ACE2 coding sequence (RefSeq accession NM_001371415.1) was PCR amplified and cloned into the BamHi site of lentiviral vector pHR-PGK (Addgene #79120).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RefSeq</div><div>suggested: (RefSeq, RRID:SCR_003496)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Inducible CRISPRa ISG screen data processing and analysis: Illumina BCL sequence files were converted to FASTQ format with the bcl2fastq tool (v2.20.0.422, Illumina).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bcl2fastq</div><div>suggested: (bcl2fastq , RRID:SCR_015058)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For all viral infections, analysis was performed with FlowJo software (Version 10.7.1, Becton Dickinson), excluding cell doublets and debris and gating according to mock infected populations (Supplementary Fig. 4).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">scRNA-seq data of ex vivo SARS-CoV-2 infected human pancreas were retrieved from Gene Expression Omnibus(GSE159556)(Tang et al., 2021).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gene Expression Omnibus(GSE159556)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Clustree package was used to choose the final resolution (Zappia and Oshlack, 2018).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Clustree</div><div>suggested: (clustree, RRID:SCR_016293)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enrichment analysis: We used g:Profiler for GO enrichment analysis, Biological pathway enrichment analysis using KEGG, Reactome, WikiPathways.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WikiPathways</div><div>suggested: (WikiPathways, RRID:SCR_002134)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The disease phenotypes enrichment analysis was performed using Human Phenotype Ontology)(Raudvere et al., 2019) ClueGO, a Cytoscape plug-in, was used to identify the functionally grouped GO and pathway(Bindea et al., 2009).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ClueGO</div><div>suggested: (ClueGO, RRID:SCR_005748)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytoscape</div><div>suggested: (Cytoscape, RRID:SCR_003032)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pheatmap package was used for generating heatmap(Kolde and Kolde, 2015).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pheatmap</div><div>suggested: (pheatmap, RRID:SCR_016418)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was performed in compliance with all relevant ethical regulations and the protocol was approved by local Ethical Committee for Clinical experimentation of Regione Toscana Area Vasta Sud Est (CEASVE), protocol code 19479 PATOVAC_COV v1.0, approved on 15 Mar 2021.<br>Consent: All participants provided written informed consent before participation in the study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-human horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated antibody for IgG (diluted 1:6000; Southern Biotechnology) were added in diluent buffer for 1 h at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-human horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated antibody</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-human horseradish peroxidase</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism v9 (GraphPad Software, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: The assessment of vaccination response was done as part of the internal policy of the center’s contingency protocol and informed consent of each individual patient was obtained regarding the access and use of sociodemographic, clinical and laboratorial information for scientific.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Statistical analysis was carried out using Microsoft Excel 2016 and IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263886: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This evaluation was approved by the research ethics committee of the Ministry of Health and Social Services (Ref:17/3/3/EEN).<br>Field Sample Permit: RT-PCR and Ag-RDT testing: Nasopharyngeal swabs collected in viral transport medium (VTM) were processed within 24 hours of collection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study design and population: The laboratory evaluation was a cross-sectional, retrospective verification of the performance of the STANDARD Q (SD Biosensor, Republic of Korea) and Panbio™ (Abbott Diagnostic GmbH).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mann-Whitney U test was computed to compare the differences between two groups using Prism V9 (GraphPad Software).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One of the limitations for this study included the credibility of the symptom onset of the participants included in the field of evaluation. We could not determine with certainty whether the samples collected were from patients whose symptoms onset was within 5-7 days. This is important because these tests have been reported to be more reliable in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection within the first 7 days after the onset of symptoms. Therefore, they can miss individuals who are in the very early stage of infection (presymptomatic stage) and those who are in the late stage with a decreased viral replication. In conclusion, these results add to the body of evidence that Ag-RDTs are useful and may be utilized to scale up testing to reduce viral transmission in settings where RT-PCR is a challenge.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.19.21263807: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The proposal for evaluation was developed in early October 2020 and approval was obtained from the Central Ethics Committee for Human Research (CECHR) of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on 30th October 2020.<br>Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from individuals consenting to participate in this study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In order to ensure blinding, a different set of unique codes were randomly generated from the ICMR-headquarter, New Delhi for each study site using Excel based tool for labelling the corresponding swabs collected and placed in dry tubes.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In order to ensure blinding, a different set of unique codes were randomly generated from the ICMR-headquarter, New Delhi for each study site using Excel based tool for labelling the corresponding swabs collected and placed in dry tubes.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In order to ensure blinding, a different set of unique codes were randomly generated from the ICMR-headquarter, New Delhi for each study site using Excel based tool for labelling the corresponding swabs collected and placed in dry tubes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Excel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sensitivity, specificity, concordance, discordance, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and agreement between the tests and their 95% confidence interval (CI) were computed using Stata version 13.1 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Graphpad Prism (version 5) and R-CRAN (version 4.0.3) with ggplot2 library was used for graphical representations.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ggplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The lower sensitivity of this RNA-extraction-free RT-PCR method in real world setting appears to be one of its limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: 18 Procedures were deemed exempt by the Institutional Review Board of Geisinger in Danville, Pennsylvania. Data-analysis: Statistical analysis was completed with Systat, version 13.1.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">18 Procedures were deemed exempt by the Institutional Review Board of Geisinger in Danville, Pennsylvania. Data-analysis: Statistical analysis was completed with Systat, version 13.1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Systat</div><div>suggested: (SyStat, RRID:SCR_010455)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Figures were prepared with GraphPad Prism, version 6.07 with variability depicted as the SEM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Some caveats and future directions are noteworthy. First, this investigation relied on self-reported data from a national sample of one-thousand with two-hundred which met the unvaccinated inclusion criteria, recruited online. Future investigations should also target Hispanics whose primary language is not English. Second, we were initially surprised that religious factors did not rank more prominently as a reason for not being vaccinated. The low attendance at virtual or in-person religious events may reflect either the magnitude of COVID-19 induced disruption of these events or that the sample was atypical on this variable. Third, as is true for any point in time survey, these data reflect the interval (Summer, 2021) of data collection which was before the vaccines received full Food and Drug administration approval. Much clinical, epidemiological, and basic science COVID-19 information is rapidly changing15,20-22 which will inform survey items on future attitudinal studies. In conclusion, the stakes are high for understanding, and overcoming, the multifaceted nuances of vaccine hesitancy among Hispanics and others.4 We are cautiously optimistic that this report, and future quantitative and qualitative ones, can empirically inform strategies to most efficiently target a decreasing subset of the US population that is unvaccinated against COVID-19.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The DoubletFinder package was used to identify and filter out the remaining cell doublets (66).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DoubletFinder</div><div>suggested: (DoubletFinder, RRID:SCR_018771)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Single-cell RNA-seq differential gene expression (DGE) analysis: Gene expression changes across the two comparisons “Deceased vs Alive” at day 0 and “Critically vs Moderate” ill at follow-up (days 5 and 15) was evaluated in each lineage using the MAST approach adjusting for Age and Sex covariates (69).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAST</div><div>suggested: (MAST, RRID:SCR_016340)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Single-cell RNA-seq pathway enrichment analysis: Enrichment analyses for GO biological processes were performed separately on up- and down-regulated DGE genes and for each cell sub-population using the enrichGO function of the clusterProfiler R package v3.13 (70).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>clusterProfiler</div><div>suggested: (clusterProfiler, RRID:SCR_016884)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enrichment heatmaps were generated based on these selected results using the pheatmap R package v1.0.12.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pheatmap</div><div>suggested: (pheatmap, RRID:SCR_016418)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ATAC-seq data analyses: The fifteen ATAC-seq libraries were checked for reads quality and low-quality reads were removed and adaptor sequences trimmed with Cutadapt v1.18 (73).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cutadapt</div><div>suggested: (cutadapt, RRID:SCR_011841)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Reads were then aligned to the human genome (hg38) using BWA v0.7.17 default parameters (74).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BWA</div><div>suggested: (BWA, RRID:SCR_010910)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, samtools v1.9 was used to remove reads aligned to mitochondria or alternative contigs (76).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">AlignmentSieve from DeepTools v3.5.0 was used to filter for unique paired reads (with --samFlagExclude 1804), to remove ENCODE hg38 blacklisted regions and to select fragments between 40 and 2000bp in length (77, 78).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DeepTools</div><div>suggested: (Deeptools, RRID:SCR_016366)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Library quality metrics were summarized with MultiQC v1.8 (79).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MultiQC</div><div>suggested: (MultiQC, RRID:SCR_014982)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Chromatin accessibility was determined using MACS2 v2.2.6 callpeak with q value < 0.05 in BAMPE mode (80).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MACS2</div><div>suggested: (MACS, RRID:SCR_013291)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We merged overlapping narrow peaks detected in at least two samples with bedtools v2.26 (81).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bedtools</div><div>suggested: (BEDTools, RRID:SCR_006646)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For each library, featureCounts v1.6.3 was used to count the number of unique fragments overlapping the targeted regions and determine the fraction of reads in peaks (FRIP) (82).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>featureCounts</div><div>suggested: (featureCounts, RRID:SCR_012919)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used filterByExpr from edgeR v3.30.3 to select 13,398 peaks with more than ten fragments in 80% of the 15 libraries.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>edgeR</div><div>suggested: (edgeR, RRID:SCR_012802)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We estimated Storey’s false discovery rate (FDR) with qvalue v2.20.0 package (86).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>qvalue</div><div>suggested: (Qvalue, RRID:SCR_001073)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ATAC-seq motif enrichment, gene ontology and pathway analysis: To test for enrichment of TF binding motifs in DAC regions, we used the findMotifsGenome function implemented in HOMER v4.11 (88).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HOMER</div><div>suggested: (HOMER, RRID:SCR_010881)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">By combining the TSS and GeneHancer approaches 76.7% of the 13,398 tested peaks were assigned to at least one gene.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GeneHancer</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, SparK v2.6.2 was used to calculate the average base-pair accessibility and standard deviation per group (93).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SparK</div><div>suggested: (Spark, RRID:SCR_006207)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used removeBatchEffect from limma to calculate the residual log2 CPM after regressing out covariates included in the linear models (84).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>limma</div><div>suggested: (LIMMA, RRID:SCR_010943)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Raincloud, ggpubr and ggplot2 were used to produce the remaining ATAC-seq plots (95, 96).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ggplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In summary, raw reads were trimmed for quality (quality score ≥30) using trimmomatic (v0.36) and to remove sequencing adaptors (73), and then aligned to the human genome hg38 reference genome using Dynamic Read Analysis for Genomics (DRAGENTM) epigenome pipeline (v3.4.5) which utilizes Illumina’s DRAGENTM Bio-It Platform with the improved and highly optimized mapping algorithms.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>trimmomatic</div><div>suggested: (Trimmomatic, RRID:SCR_011848)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Duplicate reads were then removed using Picard (v2.9.0) [https://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/] and methylation calls were extracted using the methylation caller included as part of Bismark (v. 0.18.1) (98).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Picard</div><div>suggested: (Picard, RRID:SCR_006525)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">GenPipes (v3.1.6-beta) “DNA Seq’’ pipeline was used to analyze WGS data (97).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GenPipes</div><div>suggested: (GenPipes, RRID:SCR_016376)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Seq’’</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WGS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Alignment refinement was done using GATK (v3.8) and include marking duplicate, indel realignment and base recalibration process.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GATK</div><div>suggested: (GATK, RRID:SCR_001876)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Methylation raw data were smoothed using a 500-bp smoothing window as a parameter of the BSmooth function implemented in the bsseq Bioconductor package (v. 1.20.0) (100).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bsseq</div><div>suggested: (bsseq, RRID:SCR_001072)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential methylation was detected using the R Bioconductor package DSS (v2.32.0) adjusting for patient age and sex (101).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bioconductor</div><div>suggested: (Bioconductor, RRID:SCR_006442)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Finally, Distal DMRs were selected by overlapping Promoter DMRs with the GeneHancer v5 (2019) dataset using mergeByOverlaps from IRanges v2.22.2 package, and annotated based on the associated gene (90).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IRanges</div><div>suggested: (IRanges, RRID:SCR_006420)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">GO Biological Process and KEGG enrichments were detected using the clusterProfiler v3.16.0 package and Reactome enrichment using the reactomePA v1.32.0 package from R.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GO Biological</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pathways and GO terms detected by more than one assay with at least 10 genes and FDR < 5% (scRNA and ATAC) or 5 genes and FDR < 10% (DNA methylation) were considered for downstream drug discovery.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ATAC</div><div>suggested: (Atac, RRID:SCR_015980)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Due to the hierarchical nature of GO terms and Reactome datasets we selected one term or pathway per hierarchical branch to reduce redundancies for plotting only (full datasets are provided in Suppl.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Reactome</div><div>suggested: (Reactome, RRID:SCR_003485)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To identify drugs interacting with genes and hubs in Reactome pathways we used ReactomeFIViz to access the DrugCentral database in Cytoscape (102–104).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DrugCentral</div><div>suggested: (DrugCentral, RRID:SCR_015663)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytoscape</div><div>suggested: (Cytoscape, RRID:SCR_003032)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We started by extracting the proteins targeted by the candidate drugs in DrugBank.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DrugBank</div><div>suggested: (DrugBank, RRID:SCR_002700)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04632381</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Intravenous Zotatifin in Adults With Mild or Moderate COVID-…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04330690</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Treatments for COVID-19: Canadian Arm of the SOLIDARITY Tria…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations and improvements to NIMS: Currently the data in NIMS can only be linked for individuals with a NHS number where demographic details can be populated from the GP record or hospital record data. Those without an NHS number can opportunistically receive a vaccine and a NHS number will be allocated upon vaccination. These individuals’ records will only contain information from their vaccine event. As such, it is possible that some people are missing opportunities to be invited for a vaccination. Though the numbers of individuals without an NHS number is marginal, the most vulnerable populations (migrants, asylum seekers) are more likely to not have an NHS number, and as such excluding them from the benefit of the NIMS may exacerbate health inequalities. The use of PoC apps has made for more efficient data entry, however, errors due to manual entry are still possible. Many of these errors can only be validated at the vaccination site where the vaccine was delivered. The packaging of current vaccines do not leave sufficient space for barcodes to be added to individual vials and on some occasions barcodes have been pre-loaded at vaccination sessions in attempt to eliminate data entry error. Finally, though the NIMS is based on a unique NHS number, this number is only linked to health services datasets. Linking to non-health related indicators such as occupation, emigration are not possible using the NHS number. Parts of the NIMS’ data have attempted to overcome this limi...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
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  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One of the limitations of our work is that the benefits of using MdlInfer depends on the suitability of the base epidemiological model. If the base epidemiological model is not expressive enough for the observed data, then the gains from MdlInfer may not be significant. As future work, it may be useful to adapt MdlInfer to give a measure of the quality of the base epidemiological model. We also note that MdlInfer is built on ODE-based epidemiological models; other kinds of epidemic models, e.g., agent-based models [25, 52, 34, 55, 23, 46], are more suitable in some settings. It would be interesting to extend MdlInfer to incorporate such models. Finally, there is significant population heterogeneity in disease outcomes, e.g., there are differences in severity rate or mortality rate, when infected with COVID-19, for different age group [44, 33], which has not been considered in our work. To summarize, MdlInfer is a robust data-driven method to accurately estimate unreported infections, which will help data scientists, epidemiologists, and policy makers to further improve existing ODE-based epidemiological models, make accurate forecasts, and combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. More generally, MdlInfer opens up a new line of research in epidemiology using information theoretic methods.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: The on-line questionnaire was accompanied by a detailed explanation of the study aim and design, and HCWs provided informed consent to participate anonymously in the study.<br>IRB: The Ethics Committee of Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens approved the study protocol (reference number; 370, 02-09-2021).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We decided to increase substantially the sample size to minimize random error.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study suffers from several limitations. Although our study population was large, we used a convenience sample which is not representative of HCWs in Greece. Additionally, response rate cannot be calculated since we conducted an on-line study. Moreover, vaccine uptake and other information were self-reported and social desirability to bias responses may exist. For instance, some HCWs may have falsely stated that they had received a COVID-19 vaccine. We used an anonymous on-line questionnaire to reduce this bias. Further, we investigated a variety of determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and some of them had not been studied before. However, it is possible that there are other factors affecting COVID-19 vaccination. Future research may consider including other factors which may influence COVID-19 vaccine uptake, e.g. personality traits, social media variables, fake news, conspiracy theories, etc. Finally, as is always the case in cross-sectional studies, no causal relationships between independent variables and COVID-19 vaccine uptake can be established.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical analyses were performed using SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) and data visualisation using GraphPad Prism V8 software (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Therefore, the integration of biological sounds, as in breathing recordings, within a deep learning framework overcomes the aforementioned limitations, while at the same time provides acceptable levels of performance. The proposed deep learning framework had high levels of accuracy (94.58%) in discriminating between COVID-19 and healthy subjects. The structure of the framework was built to ensure a simple architecture, while at the same time to provide advanced features extraction and learning mechanisms. The combination between hand-crafted features and deep-activated features allowed for maximized performance capabilities within the model, as it learns through hidden and internal attributes as well as deep structural and temporal characteristics of recordings. The high sensitivity and specificity measures (94.21% and 94.96%, respectively) obtained in this study prove the efficiency of deep learning in distinguishing COVID-19 subjects (AUROC: 0.90). Additionally, it supports the field of deep learning research on the use of respiratory signals for COVID-19 diagnostics [21, 56]. Alongside the high performance levels, it was interesting to observe a 100.00% accuracy in predicting asymptomatic COVID-19 subjects. This could enhance the detection of this viral infection at a very early stage and thus, preventing it from developing to mild and moderate conditions or spreading to other people. Furthermore, this high performance levels were achieved through 1D signals instead of 2D ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethical statement: Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab samples and plasma samples were obtained from hospitalized adults with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who were enrolled in a prospective cohort study approved by the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee at the University of KwaZulu–Natal (reference BREC/00001275/2020).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We analysed sequences from the seven different time points (D0, D6, D20, D34, D71, D106 and D190) as well as a random sample of genotypes from South Africa (n=480) against the global reference dataset (n = 3,170) using a custom pipeline based on a local version of NextStrain (https://github.com/nextstrain/ncov).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: Cell lines have not been authenticated.<br>Contamination: The cell lines have been tested for mycoplasma contamination and are mycoplasma negative.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A02051 anti-spike monoclonal antibody was added.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary goat anti-rabbit horseradish peroxidase (Abcam ab205718) antibody was added at 1 μg/mL and incubated for 2 h at room temperature with shaking.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab205718, RRID:AB_2819160)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Subsequently, goat anti-human IgG (1:5000)-horseradish peroxidase conjugated secondary antibodies (Jackson ImmunoResearch) were added a 100 µL/well and incubated at RT for 1h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">H1299 cells were passaged every second day.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>H1299</div><div>suggested: NCI-DTP Cat# NCI-H1299, RRID:CVCL_0060)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used ACE2-expressing H1299-E3 cells for the initial isolation (P1 stock) followed by passaging in Vero E6 cells (P2 and P3 stocks, where P3 stock was used in experiments).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>H1299-E3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then 1 mL was added to Vero E6 cells that had been seeded at 2 × 105 cells per mL 18–20 h earlier in a T25 flask (approximately 1:8 donor-to-target cell dilution ratio) for cell-to-cell infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus neutralization assay: SARS-CoV-2 pseudotyped lentiviruses were prepared by co-transfecting the HEK 293T cell line with either the SARS-CoV-2 Beta spike (L18F, D80A, D215G, K417N, E484K, N501Y, D614G, A701V, 242-244 del) or the Delta spike (T19R, R158G L452R, T478K, D614G, P681R, D950N</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK 293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mutations were confirmed visually with BAM files using Geneious software (Biomatters).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Geneious</div><div>suggested: (Geneious, RRID:SCR_010519)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pipeline contains several Python scripts that manage the analysis workflow.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">It performs alignment of genotypes in MAFFT, phylogenetic tree inference in IQ-Tree20, tree dating and ancestral state construction and annotation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAFFT</div><div>suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For microscopy images, automated image analysis was performed using a custom script in MATLAB v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21262619: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: After obtaining written informed consent, whole blood was obtained in cell preparation tubes (BD) on the day of enrollment/first vaccination, and during follow up visits.<br>IRB: Institutional Review Board approval was provided by the University of Pittsburgh Human Research Protection Office.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis: Graphpad Prism was used for statistical analysis and to prepare figures.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad, RRID:SCR_000306)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations of our study include that it was an observational cohort study without randomization, and participants receiving the various vaccines were not matched for demographics. As a result, there were sex and age differences and different racial distributions between the groups. The cohorts were of insufficient size to permit sub-group comparisons. The different dosing regimens between the vaccines resulted in slightly different intervals post vaccination for sampling and could have influenced the observed immunogenicity of the various vaccines. Despite these limitations, our findings are consistent with published efficacy data for these three vaccines and provide a direct side-by-side assessment of the elicited immune responses. Vaccination can provide protection from infection, disease, and/or death. All of these are achievable aims depending on the level and type of immunity induced by the vaccine. Moreover, protection from infection and potentially from disease also is likely to decrease transmission. As all these vaccine effects contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, a given vaccine can be effective in advancing public health goals without necessarily inducing the highest magnitude of immune response.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: This study was approved by the Animal Research Committee of Saitama Medical University.<br>IACUC: This study was approved by the Animal Research Committee of Saitama Medical University.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Peptide-pulsed cells were incubated for 3 hours at 37°C, and were stained with anti-HLA-A24 monoclonal antibody (mAb), A11.1M (44), followed by FITC-labeled goat anti-mouse IgG antibody (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-HLA-A24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resultant RMA-S-HHDA-24 cell line was cultured in RPMI-1640 medium (Nacalai Tesque Inc., Kyoto, Japan) with 10% FCS (Biowest, Nuaille, France) and 500 μg/ml G418 (Nacalai Tesque Inc.) Peptide binding assay: Binding affinity of each peptide to HLA-A*24:02 was measured by the peptide binding assay using RMA-S-HHD-A24 cells, as described before (42).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RMA-S-HHDA-24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RMA-S-HHD-A24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice: We used HLA-A*24:02 transgenic mice which were kindly provided by Dr. François A. Lemonnier (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-A*24:02</div><div>suggested: RRID:IMSR_TAC:9663)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HHD-A24 cDNA was subcloned into the mammalian expression plasmid, pcDNA3.1 (+) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA) (pcDNA3.1-HHD-A24).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA3.1</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_79663)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The TAP2-dificient mouse lymphoma cell line, RMA-S (H-2b) was transfected with pcDNA3.1-HHD-A24 by electroporation (Gene Pulser Xcell, Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA), and cloned by the FACSAria II cell sorter (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA3.1-HHD-A24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of HLA-A*24:02 expression on the surface of RMA-S-HHD-A24 cells was measured by flow cytometry (FACSCanto II, BD Biosciences), and standardized as the percent cell surface expression by the following formula: % relative binding = [((MFI of cells pulsed with each peptide) – (MFI of cells incubated at 37°C without a peptide))/((MFI of cells incubated at 26°C without a peptide) – (MFI of cells incubated at 37°C without a peptide))] × 100.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Biosciences</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences, RRID:SCR_013311)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses: One-way ANOVA followed by post-hoc tests was performed for statistical analyses among multiple groups using Graphpad Prism 5 software (GraphPad software, San Diego, CA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.461301: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Retrieval of variant sequences: The lineages of variants of concern, UK B.1.1.7 [38], South African B.1.351 [39], Brazilian P.1 [40] and Indian B.1.617.2 [41], were used to identify the most prevalent mutations for nsp3, nsp12, ORF3a and ORF9b that would be present in at least 75% of the sequences [42] (Table 1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>B.1.617.2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Two common mouse strains to study COVID-19 vaccines, C57BL/6 and BALB/CJ, were used in mouse HLA affinity predictions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Retrieval of SARS-CoV-2 sequence: The reference protein sequences of SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan isolate were retrieved from NCBI database using accession number NC_045512.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NCBI</div><div>suggested: (NCBI, RRID:SCR_006472)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antigenicity, allergenicity and toxicity evaluation: Antigenicity was evaluated by VaxiJen 2.0 [47] server with a threshold of 0.4, allergenicity by AllerTop v2.0 [48] and toxicity by ToxinPred [49].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VaxiJen</div><div>suggested: (VaxiJen, RRID:SCR_018514)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AllerTop</div><div>suggested: (AllerTop, RRID:SCR_018496)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Hence, various chemical and physical parameters associated with the vaccine were predicted in this study using ProtParam tool on ExPASy [50].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ProtParam</div><div>suggested: (ProtParam Tool, RRID:SCR_018087)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ExPASy</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The native peptides from the RCSB structures were replaced with our predicted epitopes using PyMol.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PyMol</div><div>suggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitation of current studies relates to mutational spectra of SARS-CoV-2 that is constantly changing. This poses a risk to the vaccine candidates to no longer being viable to offer protection against newly formed variants. To overcome this, we selected the most prevalent variants of concern and their most common mutations in nsp3, nsp12, ORF3a and ORF9b proteins across all identified sequences to date. The selected proteins may carry some important mutations that increase the transmissibility and survival of the virus, like the nonsynonymous mutation P323L in nsp12 which has possibly affected the catalytic activity of the nsp12 protein, therefore altering the binding capability with other cofactors, such as nsp7 and nsp8 proteins [65]. However, studies have reported generally low mutation rates in these proteins which increase the efficiency of the proposed multi-epitope vaccine candidates in the long term [66]. Another challenge with peptide vaccines is that peptides can be easily degraded by peptidases which causes a lower T cell response. The present study addresses this issue by calculating the half-life of the top common epitopes to make sure that the vaccine construct is not degraded early in blood.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263837: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used constant comparison to ensure that our thematic analysis provided a comprehensive overview of themes and subthemes evident in the data.40,41 Our coding strategy allowed us to conduct a statistical exploration of patterns in the data.42 Using Microsoft Excel v.16.52, we conducted Chi-squared tests for independence to examine the frequency of three key themes – ‘returning to normal’ (code N), ‘becoming more social’ (code P), and ‘becoming less social’ (code L) – across five demographic variables: gender, age, ethnicity, education status, household size, and presence or absence of underlying health conditions that might affect one’s vulnerability to COVID-19.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has limitations, being conducted rapidly in active wards during an ongoing pandemic. The evaluation was conducted in two rooms and there are no data defining the optimal air changes required to remove detectable pathogens with the specified devices. Given the large volume of air within the room and the stability of viruses in the sampling fluid, it was predictable that the amount of SARS-CoV-2 detected via qPCR would be minimal, as evidenced by high CT values. Therefore, we cannot categorically state that there was circulating infectious virus. RNA is sufficient to suggest the virus was present and it has been shown that aerosolised virus can remain infectious for >3 hours 27,28; additionally, air sampling devices can artefactually reduce the apparent viability of sampled virus. Negative results from the control sampler, and the striking but reversible effect of the air filtration devices, suggest these are not false positive detections and we cannot exclude the risk of airborne infection. Future studies should examine whether air filtration devices, such as those used here, have an impact on healthcare professional and patient focussed outcomes, including measuring infection/exposure as an endpoint, as well as assessing potential harm, such as noise, reduced ambient humidity or impact on delivery of care. In conclusion, we were able to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a repurposed COVID-19 ‘surge ward’ and found that air filtration can remove SARS-CoV-2 RNA below...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, we assessed the first six months following the pandemic and some portion of those who stopped working may have returned to work following that time. Even so, we still found higher levels of stopping work compared to the same period in previous years. Second, we did not distinguish between family physicians who practice comprehensive family medicine versus focused practice or walk-in medicine. However, it is likely that all those in patient enrolment models practice some portion of comprehensive family medicine.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: After debate between the authors, a broad search phrase was defined with the intention to capture a large number of studies, given the novelty of the field.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">On the other hand, studies that complemented a prospective evaluation by testing positive populations in a randomized way were accepted, provided the proportion was reasonable.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.1 Search strategy: MEDLINE database was searched on 04/04/2021 for 345 results.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MEDLINE</div><div>suggested: (MEDLINE, RRID:SCR_002185)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">BioRxiv database was searched on 04/04/2021 for 54 results.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioRxiv</div><div>suggested: (bioRxiv, RRID:SCR_003933)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For instance, the study of Tu et al24 evaluating the ID NOW platform (Abbott) had an original design to enroll 200 positive patients, but a prevalence drop made the study unaffordable.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  4.3 Limitations: One of the main limitations of this review is the selection criteria. Considering the high heterogeneity of methods and outcomes between studies, finding a clear-cut unified exclusion criteria was not possible. We debated between authors when in doubt, but a level of subjectivity was inevitable. For the same reasons of heterogeneity, we opted not to conduct a meta-analysis in this study. Authors have decided against providing an ‘average’ performance for platforms as this would likely be misleading and would potentially downplay the method discrepancies in the trials.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We extracted the following information for UK Biobank participants: (1) age (Field 21022 Age at recruitment), (2) sex (Field 31: Sex), (3) ethnicity (Field 21000: ethnic background), (4) body mass index (Field 21001: Body mass index (BMI)), (5) smoking status (Field 20116: Smoking status), (6) diastolic blood pressure (Field 4079: Diastolic blood pressure, automated reading), (7) systolic blood pressure (Field 4080: Systolic blood pressure, automated reading), (8) Townsend deprivation index (Field 189: Townsend deprivation index at recruitment), (9) overall health rating (Field 2178: Overall health rating), (10) long-standing illness (Field 2188: Long-standing illness, disability, or infirmity), (11) supplements (Field 6155: Vitamin and mineral supplements), (12) vitamin D (Field 30890: Vitamin D), and (13) skin color (Field 1717: Skin colour).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Field</div><div>suggested: (Field of Genes, RRID:SCR_016155)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations of the study and future directions: Our evaluation of the role of vitamin D in COVID-19 ethnic disparities is limited by the reliance on observational data from the UK Biobank. As discussed previously, the SEM approach allowed us to formulate and test hypotheses using observational data regarding the causes of COVID-19 disparities and to characterize potential intervening mechanisms that could be used to mitigate the disparities. However, our results could be effected by unobserved confounders, and randomized control trials are the gold standard for definitely proving the efficacy of any medical intervention. Nevertheless, our results can be taken to support the establishment of clinical trials on the efficacy of vitamin D as a prophylactic and treatment for COVID-19, with an emphasis on the recruitment of participants from ethnic minority groups.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263527: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics: The two-parent studies which collected blood from infected and exposed individuals were approved by the Stanford University Institutional Review Board.<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained before blood collection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody level was reported as the ratio of optical density (OD) of the sample over the OD of the calibrator.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis was done with GraphPad Prism 8.0.1 software (San Diego, CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Although the findings are promising, this study has several limitations. First, the whole blood SARS-CoV-2 IGRA did not distinguish between CD4 and CD8 T cell responses. Prior studies in convalescents have shown that IFN-γ response in IGRA is predominantly CD4 T cell-derived [12, 26]. However, a more complex assay design that allows measurement of CD4 and CD8 T cells response is possible if clinically indicated. Second, given that healthy blood donors were recruited during the pandemic, we would not know whether the 16% positivity rate with SARS-CoV-2 IGRA in this group was due to true-positive results due to past SARS-CoV-2 infection, false-positive results, or cross-reactivity due to past infection with seasonal CoV [7, 27, 28]. Third, the IgG response in this study was not further assessed for its ability to neutralize the virus. Such characterization was not relevant in the context of investigating IGRA accuracy. Forth, SARS-CoV-2 IGRA was not applied to the investigation of vaccine response in this study. Studies are underway to measure the vaccine response with IGRA in immunocompromised patients. Lastly, the household study lacked multiple time points to more accurately assess the performance of IGRA vs IgG, and we did not perform risk assessment in household contacts to correlate IGRA positivity with exposure risk. In summary, the whole blood SARS-CoV-2 IGRA was shown to maintain sensitivity in convalescents up to 10 months post-infection and was shown to have a higher...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263836: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments.<br>Consent: Local ethical committee approved the study and written informed consent was obtained from all participants or legal guardians.<br>Field Sample Permit: Sample collection and storage: Venous blood was collected in EDTA tubes and processed within 2 hours.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Humoral response: Anti-SARS Cov-2 IgG Antibodies (Ab) titres were measures as previously described13 at T0, T21 and T28 and during the follow up visits at approximetly 120 days after the 1st dose (T120).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS Cov-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Surface staining was performed using the following antibodies: CD3 PE-CF594 (clone UCHT1, BD (562280)), CD4 APC-Cy7 (clone RPA-T4, BD (557871)), CD27 FITC (clone M-T271, BD (555440)), CD45RO PE-Cy5 (clone UCHL1, BD), CD185 BV605 (CXCR5, clone RF8B2, BS), CD10 BV510 (clone HI10a, BD 563032), CD19 APC-R700 (clone SJ25C1, BD 659121), CD21 APC (clone B-Ly4, BD 559867), IgD BV421 (clone IA6-2, BD 565940).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CXCR5</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 563105, RRID:AB_2738008)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD10</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 563032, RRID:AB_2737964)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD19</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 659121, RRID:AB_2870470)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD21 APC</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 559867, RRID:AB_2085309)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study presents some limitations mainly due to the small sample size, the short time of follow up and the absence of adequately represented groups of distinct immune suppressive regimens. Larger studies are needed in order to identify a) the proper timing of vaccination to elicit protective immune responses, b) informative correlates of protection and c) alternative immunization strategies for those patients who did not mount protective immune responses upon mRNA vaccine.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 27 and 28. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263879: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the Medical Research Ethics Committee of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (approval number: M2020-004) and was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Whole genome sequencing (WGS) was performed to identify the lineages of representative samples using a next-generation sequencer.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WGS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Libraries were prepared using the QIAseq SARS-CoV-2 Primer Panel Kit (QIAGEN) and sequenced using the MiSeq (Illumina, Inc.; San Diego, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MiSeq</div><div>suggested: (A5-miseq, RRID:SCR_012148)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  However, engaging with FOIs as a research method has limitations, as public institutions are allowed to refuse requests under section 43(2) of The Act if “its disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (including the public authority holding it)” (Freedom of Information Act 2000, 2000). This exemption based on commercial interests is sometimes employed by public research institutions to justify non-disclosure of information regarding the commercialisation of health technologies, as it is deemed commercially sensitive, but also in other cases such as the refusal to disclose clinical trial transparency policies (University of Liverpool, 2020). In the case of this particular study, the University of Oxford stated that disclosure would weaken the bargaining position of the OUI/University in the future (Supplementary 2). Oxford furthermore said that the university “recognises that there is some public interest in disclosure of the information (⃛) However (…) in common with the rest of the Higher Education sector, the University is under financial pressure. It cannot rely solely on public funds to finance improvements to teaching and research, and related activities. There is therefore a strong public interest that the University should be able to supplement its public funding by entering into mutually beneficial partnerships with the private sector, which will further its charitable objectives. Any disclosure that jeopa...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.15.21263653: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">From all SARS-CoV-2 positive samples belonging to the Laboratory Platform for Coronavirus Diagnosis, established by the Butantan Institute, we randomly select and sequence around 7-10% from each epidemiological week (epiweek).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.12.21263462: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The reports identified were then exported to Microsoft Excel files and classified according to the following variables: age (age groups: ≥85 years old, 65-84 and 18-64 years old), sex, month of reporting, origin of the report, reporter’s profession (healthcare professional or non-healthcare professional) and concomitant conditions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows 20·0 (SPSS, Chicago, Illinois, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The limitations of this study, as with spontaneous reporting schemes of adverse reactions of both drugs and vaccines, is hampered by underreporting, over reporting and reporting bias. This makes it difficult to identify the true incidence of these events and the presence of multiple confounders which may not enable the assessment of the causality with higher specificity.22 In addition, due to the nature of the database, it was not possible to know the denominator (the total number of vaccinated individuals for each type of vaccine), which hinders the analysis of likelihood of true occurrence of thrombotic adverse events for each vaccine. Also, we were unable to report possible concomitant drugs. Despite these limitations, the study used global “real-world” data and collected valuable information about three widely used vaccines, where more than two thirds of all reports were received from healthcare professionals which increases the credibility and quality of reports. People who are vaccine hesitant and reluctant to take any of the mentioned vaccines,23 should know that most COVID-19 vaccines are effective to prevent symptomatic infection including hospital admissions and severe disease.24,25 The risk of COVID-19 related thrombotic events are minimal and likely manageable with available treatments.8 Thrombotic adverse events reported for the three vaccines remains extremely rare.8,26 In summary, thrombotic adverse events reported for the three vaccines remains extremely rare ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.18.21263782: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the Moinhos de Vento Ethics Committee N 3977144 (Porto Alegre/Brazil) and informed consent was obtained from all participants.<br>Consent: This study was approved by the Moinhos de Vento Ethics Committee N 3977144 (Porto Alegre/Brazil) and informed consent was obtained from all participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The detection limits of each cytokine were IL□6, 2□200 pg/mL; IL□10, 2□300 pg/mL; IL□17A, 2□1000 pg/ mL; TGF-β, 20 – 500 pg/mL. 2.4 Immunophenotyping: Whole blood samples (100 µL) were incubated with monoclonal surface antibodies (all anti-human) at 4 °C for 20 min in accordance with the following combination: a) FITC-conjugated anti-CD4, Pe-conjugated anti-CD25, PerCP-Cy5.5-conjugated anti-CD39, APC-conjugated anti-CD73; b) FITC-conjugated anti-CD8, Pe-conjugated anti-CD39, APC-conjugated anti-CD73; c) PerCP-Cy5.5-conjugated anti-CD19, Pe-conjugated anti-CD39, APC-conjugated anti-CD73; d) FITC-conjugated anti-CD8, Pe-conjugated anti-CD28, PerCP-Cy5.5-conjugated anti-CD27, APC-conjugated anti-PD-1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human) at 4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD25</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD73</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD8</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 340031, RRID:AB_399998)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD39</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD28</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD27</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-PD-1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The SPSS 20.0 (IBM Inc, EUA) software was used in all analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.17.21263670: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitation: The proportion of vaccinated and fully vaccinated patients were low in our study. Explicit research with more sample size and negative case-control study is quintessential to corroborate the findings.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The central Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee, Advarra, Inc., 6100 Merriweather Drive, Columbia, MD 21044 approved the protocol and consent forms.<br>Consent: All participants provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This is an exploratory analysis of the previously reported phase 3, randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE) trial that enrolled medically stable adults at 99 US sites (clintrials.gov NCT04470427).1,2 Eligible participants included adults 18 years or older with no known history of SARS-CoV-2 infection, whose circumstances put them at appreciable risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or high risk of severe Covid-19.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The analysis was performed in participants who were randomized and received mRNA-1273 (mRNA-1273 group; vaccinated from 27-July-2020 to 16-Dec-2020) in the blinded phase, and participants randomized to placebo in the blinded phase and receiving mRNA-1273 in the open-label phase (Placebo-mRNA-1273 group; vaccinated from 29-Dec-2020 to 30-Apr-2021) and were SARS-CoV-2 uninfected at the beginning of the open-label phase.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04470427</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Study to Evaluate Efficacy, Safety, and Immunogenicity of …</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.21263488: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Patients were informed about this study and gave consent for the use of their data for research purposes.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All calculations were dome using SPSS (IBM Corp.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.15.21263622: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All data was analyzed by SPSS version 12.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Our study has several limitations. First, this is not a randomized controlled trial, and therefore unmeasured confounding cannot be ruled out. Second, as for all retrospective studies, some individuals diagnosed with Mucormycosis may be unreported leading to measurement bias and underestimation of mortality due to CAM. Third, we collected data from a single centre in India unlike other multicenter cohort studies [7, 52,54,55,57]. Fourth, an overwhelmed health care system, inadequate workforce and lack of exhaustive reporting due to surge of cases during second COVID wave could be responsible for underestimation of co-morbidities, presenting symptoms and complications amongst patients in our cohort. Fifth, inflammatory markers like Ferritin, CRP and D-dimer were not available for all patients in the cohort. Sixth, we did not look for environmental factors causing healthcare-associated mucormycosis like contaminated ventilation systems, air conditioners, and ongoing construction in our hospital. We did not estimate the burden of Mucormycetes spores in our hospital environment. We also didn’t investigate the link between risk factors like use of industrial oxygen during the COVID pandemic, contaminated nebulizer fluids or inline humidifier tubing used in ventilator circuits and contaminated oxygen delivery systems with increased incidence of CAM in our cohort [10]. Seventh, other unexplored factors, including genetic predisposition were not identified. Despite these...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.21.21263882: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Use of laboratory and epidemiological records for research purpose has been approved by the INMI Ethical Committee (issue n. 214/20-11-2020), and the need of informed consent form was waived.<br>Consent: Use of laboratory and epidemiological records for research purpose has been approved by the INMI Ethical Committee (issue n. 214/20-11-2020), and the need of informed consent form was waived.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sequencing data (n=1072) produced at INMI exclusively from randomly selected samples collected from unvaccinated individuals during the same study period and representing all the regional territory, were used to evaluate the prevalence of variants of concern (VOCs).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Serological testing: Serological investigation included the detection of anti-N and anti-RBD Spike IgG using Abbott SARS-CoV-2 assay on Abbott ARCHITECT® i2000sr (Abbott Diagnostics, Chicago, IL, USA) and the evaluation of the neutralising antibodies (nAb) titres using SARS-CoV-2 microneutralization test (MNT) based on live virus 13.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-N</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MNT</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus isolation: Viral culture was performed in a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory at INMI on Vero E6/TMPRSS2 (kindly provided by Dr. Oeda S., National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan), as previously described 12.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6/TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Serological testing: Serological investigation included the detection of anti-N and anti-RBD Spike IgG using Abbott SARS-CoV-2 assay on Abbott ARCHITECT® i2000sr (Abbott Diagnostics, Chicago, IL, USA) and the evaluation of the neutralising antibodies (nAb) titres using SARS-CoV-2 microneutralization test (MNT) based on live virus 13.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics: Epidemiological and demographic data were extracted from the Regional Surveillance Information System established by the regional health authority and analyzed using the STATA 14 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism version 8.00 (GraphPad Software, La Jolla California) and SPSS V.23 for Windows statistical software; p-value<0.05 was considered statistically significant.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study presents some limitation that should be acknowledged. First, the study was an observational study based on real-life data obtained from pandemic surveillance activities, aimed not to establish vaccine efficacy compared to a matched unvaccinated control group, but, to report a virological characterization of those patients reported with SARS-CoV-2 infection despite being vaccinated. Therefore, our observation should be replicated and extended on larger cohorts established ad hoc and to other vaccine formulations. Furthermore, no follow-up samples were available for the post-vaccination infected individuals, so that it was not possible to monitor the viral loads and the shedding of infectious virus. In addition, as described above, pre-infection antibody status was only available for few patients. Finally, the evaluation of the cellular immune response would be of great interest to better understand the protection status in cases of vaccine breakthrough infections.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.15.21263559: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analyses were conducted using Stata MP, version 16.1 (StataCorp LLC, College Station, United States of America).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Nevertheless, several limitations should be noted due to caveats. First, our study was based on a hypothetical experiment and not a real situation. Therefore, actual behaviour may diverge from the survey responses. Notwithstanding this limitation, our findings should still be helpful, based on previous reports that more than 80% of the stated and revealed preferences corresponded (de Bekker-Grob et al., 2020; de Bekker-Grob et al., 2019; Lambooij et al., 2015). Second, our findings are based on a single survey. Vaccination intentions may fluctuate due to the pandemic situation and the timing of the survey. Furthermore, our results may not be applicable in other countries, since the pandemic situation, government responses to the pandemic, and reasons for vaccine hesitancy can vary across countries. In Japan, compared to Western countries, the COVID-19 mortality rate is much lower (World Health Organization, 2021b), and government responses to the pandemic are less stringent (Hale et al., 2021); hence, the attitude of the Japanese population toward the vaccine and vaccine passports availability may differ from other countries. Therefore, intertemporal and cross-national evidence needs to be accumulated through further studies. In conclusion, this work offers encouraging findings regarding the vaccination intentions of the Japanese people. Although some individuals hesitate to get vaccinated against COVID-19, this can be reduced by mitigating concerns about vaccine safety and s...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263838: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The WPACR and the CHP Asthma Registry are both approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Pittsburgh (protocols STUDY20110072 and STUDY19020359, respectively).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We performed all analyses using STATA v16.1 (StataCorp, College Station, TX) or SAS v9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study also has several limitations. Given the nature of the pandemic, follow-up duration has been short, precluding the ability to track long-term outcomes. However, it seems unlikely that asthma would have a lasting impact on COVID-19 outcomes, given the generally mild courses of the children in this study. Yet, future studies should also focus on long-term consequences such as changes in lung function or asthma severity and control in children who recovered from acute COVID-19. Another limitation is the small number of hospitalized patients in this study; it is unclear if this is secondary to regional variation in severity or management, possibly due to local variants, or if the low proportion of hospitalized children is secondary to our ability to include even mild and asymptomatic cases (e.g. asymptomatic children who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2) in the registry. It will be crucial to analyze multi-center data to evaluate whether findings vary across different settings. More importantly, the current study period preceded the emergence of the Delta variant of the virus; our registry is ongoing and we plan to analyze any potential differences as we see the already surging wave of pediatric cases across the country. In summary, we found that asthma severity does not seem to be associated with increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children. Pre-existing asthma did increase the risk of hospitalization for COVID-19 in our population, but hospital length of stay, need...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.19.21263799

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.19.21263799: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263442

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.12.21263442: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The Ethics Committee of the Medical Governance Research Institute approved this study on June 5, 2020. (ID: MG2018-04-0516) Informed consent waived and direct contact to the related organizations, including the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, were allowed by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Governance Research Institute.<br>Consent: The Ethics Committee of the Medical Governance Research Institute approved this study on June 5, 2020. (ID: MG2018-04-0516) Informed consent waived and direct contact to the related organizations, including the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, were allowed by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Governance Research Institute.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The gender of the board members was verified by the database of medical physician published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for the board members with a Japanese medical license (https://licenseif.mhlw.go.jp/search_isei/jsp/top.jsp), the photographs on the official page of affiliated institutions after a manual Google search, as well as news articles such as interview with the board members in the major national newspapers.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Google</div><div>suggested: (Google, RRID:SCR_017097)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We extracted the h-index for researchers and physicians using the Scopus database (https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri), or when not accessible, Google Scholar to evaluate the academic performance of individual SNCDC members, as described previously.[12] For financial COI, we examined payment records from pharmaceutical companies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Google Scholar</div><div>suggested: (Google Scholar, RRID:SCR_008878)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has several limitations. First, due to the limited data availability, the time frame of disclosed pharmaceutical company payments did not overlap concisely with the time frame of advisory board member COI disclosure, as we have acknowledged in this study. Nevertheless, this study still provides insight into the magnitude of undeclared COI among the SNCDC members have with pharmaceutical companies and the Japanese government. Second, we assessed COI between the SNCDC members and the government-funded research grants on infectious diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. Although there may be other sources of research grants from the Japanese government, grants for infectious disease studies would most likely directly impact the opinions and suggestions of SNCDC members. Despite these limitations, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study comprehensively assessing financial and non-financial COI among the Japanese government COVID-19 advisory board.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/423467

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.17.460814

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.17.460814: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For labeling fusion proteins, chicken anti-BioID2 (1:5000; BID2-CP-100; BioFront Technologies) or mouse anti-hemagglutinin primary antibody was used (HA; 1:1000; 12CA5; Covance).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-BioID2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-hemagglutinin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The primary antibody was detected using Alexa Fluor 568–conjugated goat anti-chicken (1:1000; A11041, Invitrogen) or Alexa Fluor 568–conjugated goat anti-mouse (1:1000; A11004; Thermo Fisher Scientific).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# A-11004, RRID:AB_2534072)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The primary antibodies were detected using horseradish peroxidase (HRP)–conjugated anti-chicken (1:40,000; A9046; Sigma-Aldrich) or anti-rabbit (1:40,000; G21234; Thermo Fisher Scientific).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-chicken</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# A9046, RRID:AB_258432)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# G-21234, RRID:AB_2536530)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293 Phoenix cells (National Gene Vector Biorepository, Indianapolis, IN) were transfected with each construct using Lipofectamine 3000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) per manufacturer’s recommendation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The culture media was filtered through a 0.45-μm filter and added to A549 cells along with Polybrene (4 μg/ml; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: NCI-DTP Cat# A549, RRID:CVCL_0023)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Amplified PCR products were fused to biotin ligases via In-Fusion Recombination into myc-BioID2 pBabe (Addgene #80900; XhoI/PmeI), BioID2-HA pBabe (Addgene #120308; BamHI/EcoRI), or TurboID-3xHA pBabe (BamHI/EcoRI) [25].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>myc-BioID2 pBabe</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">mycBioID2 (Addgene #80900) was used as a control for BioID2 cell lines.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>mycBioID2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Human albumin signal sequence-3xHA-TurboID-KDEL pBabe control construct was made by two-step In-Fusion Recombination.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pBabe</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_21836)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293 Phoenix cells (National Gene Vector Biorepository, Indianapolis, IN) were transfected with each construct using Lipofectamine 3000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) per manufacturer’s recommendation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>National Gene Vector Biorepository</div><div>suggested: (National Gene Vector Biorepository, RRID:SCR_004760)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Following digestion, samples were acidified with formic acid (FA) and subsequently desalted using AssayMap C18 cartridges mounted on an Agilent AssayMap BRAVO liquid handling system.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Agilent AssayMap</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Digested peptides were then desalted in the Bravo platform using AssayMap C18 cartridges, and dried down in a SpeedVac concentrator.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AssayMap</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data Analysis: All raw files were processed with MaxQuant (version 1.5.5.1) using the integrated Andromeda Search engine against a target/decoy version of the curated human Uniprot proteome without isoforms (downloaded in January of 2020) and the GPM cRAP sequences (commonly known protein contaminants).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MaxQuant</div><div>suggested: (MaxQuant, RRID:SCR_014485)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">First, peptide intensities were log2-transformed and loess-normalized (limma package) across replicates of each bait or control batch to account for systematic errors.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>limma</div><div>suggested: (LIMMA, RRID:SCR_010943)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Testing for differential abundance was performed using MSstats bioconductor package based on a linear mixed-effects model.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MSstats</div><div>suggested: (MSstats, RRID:SCR_014353)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bioconductor</div><div>suggested: (Bioconductor, RRID:SCR_006442)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We selected a network derived from the STRING database as our starting network: the subset of the STRING interactions with a combined confidence score greater than 0.7 (available in the Network Data Exchange (NDEx) at https://www.ndexbio.org/viewer/networks/275bd84e-3d18-11e8-a935-0ac135e8bacf [66, 67].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STRING</div><div>suggested: (STRING, RRID:SCR_005223)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Finally, the hierarchy network (https://doi.org/10.18119/N9531R) was styled, communities were subjected to enrichment analysis in GO biological processes using the g:Profiler package in CDAPS, p values were calculated based on the hypergeometric distribution, and a layout was applied.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>g:Profiler</div><div>suggested: (G:Profiler, RRID:SCR_006809)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resultant high-confidence interactors were visualized using Cytoscape (v3.8.0) and tested for enrichment in GO biological process terms using the hypergeometric distribution [74].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytoscape</div><div>suggested: (Cytoscape, RRID:SCR_003032)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The application uses several applications, including clusterProfiler (v3.18.1) for functional analysis with the enricher function using the Broad Institute molecular signature databases (v7.4) including canonical pathways (Reactome, KEGG, WikiPathways), Immune collection, chemical and genetic perturbation signatures, regulatory transcription factor targets (TFT), oncogenic signatures, and Gene Ontology (Human Phenotype, Cellular Component, Biological Process and Molecular Function).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>clusterProfiler</div><div>suggested: (clusterProfiler, RRID:SCR_016884)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  The use of human A549 lung-cancer derived cells for these studies is both a strength and a limitation. These cells do retain some fundamental traits of alveolar type-II pulmonary epithelial cells; however, A549 cells are not clearly representative of normal human pulmonary epithelial cells. Our global profiles of human lung cells overexpressing individual SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins produced a large dataset of significantly upregulated or downregulated cellular proteins, enabling the ability to identify specific viral proteins influencing specific changes in cell biology. This data supports previous reports of ITGB3 overexpression in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells and tissues, and further identifies the specific viral proteins that could be influencing the overexpression. If ITGB3 is indeed working as an alternate receptor for SARS-CoV-2 viral uptake, it may be that targeting ITGB3 or the specific viral proteins that upregulate ITGB3 levels could have therapeutic benefit to slow cell-to-cell spread of the virus. Additionally, our findings that several of the SARS-CoV-2 proteins can reduce cellular levels of MUC5AC/B, possibly via increased secretion [62, 63], gives insight into one of the mechanisms by which the virus causes devastation of the respiratory system in the most severe COVID-19 cases. While previous interactome studies have reported PPI candidates even when identified in up to 6 viral protein interactomes [16, 17], we highlighted here only unique protein candidates for e...
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Euthanasia Agents: In vitro assays: The Calu-3 cells were infected with multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 0.1 at densities of 2.0 × 105 cells/well for 1 h at 310K in 5 % of CO2.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In vitro assays: The Calu-3 cells were infected with multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 0.1 at densities of 2.0 × 105 cells/well for 1 h at 310K in 5 % of CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 48 h, the supernatants were harvested, and virus titers were quantified by plaque-based assays according to previous publications36-38, The cytotoxic assays were conducted in a monolayers of Vero cells (in about 2.0 × 104 cell/well) treated for 3 days with different concentrations of apixaban, rivaroxaban, dabigatran, atazanavir, or remdesivir (50, 150, 300, 600, and 800 µM) following procedure described by Sacramento, C.Q. et al37.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_ZW93)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics: All in vitro data were analyzed from Prism GraphPad software 8.0</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism GraphPad</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Windows GraphPad Software, San Diego, California USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The molecular docking calculations were performed with GOLD 2020.2 software (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center Software Ltd., CCDC) at pH 7.4.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GOLD</div><div>suggested: (GOLD, RRID:SCR_000188)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">It was defined 8 Å radius around each main binding pockets and the figures of the best results were generated with PyMOL Delano Scientific LLC software (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PyMOL</div><div>suggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After projecting the simulated filaments into 2D, localisations were randomly placed with a normal distribution about the protein location with a standard deviation of 7.4nm (derived from the localization precision of our data) and the image was coloured as a STORM image39.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A/Udorn/72 virions were labelled with the mouse anti-HA primary antibody Hc83x (a kind gift from Stephen Wharton, Francis Crick Institute) and goat anti-NA and anti-M1 (a kind gift from Jeremy Rossman, University of Kent).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-HA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-NA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-M1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 virions were labelled with the human anti-spike antibody EY6A37 (a kind gift from Tiong Tan and Alain Townsend, University of Oxford) and a SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibody (GTX632269) from Genetex.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GTX632269</div><div>suggested: (GeneTex Cat# GTX632269, RRID:AB_2888304)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus strains: The influenza strain H3N2 A/Udorn/72 (Udorn) was grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells as described previously35.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MDCK</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 was grown in Vero E6 cells and collected as above.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Filament length analysis: Images were saved as .tif files, opened in ImageJ and each FOV was cropped so that just the single channel in which the HA protein was labelled was used.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ImageJ</div><div>suggested: (ImageJ, RRID:SCR_003070)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After iterating this over the skeleton, the calculated line profile of each filament were Fourier transformed using the MATLAB fft function and the resulting distributions across all filaments were summed to produce the average frequency spectrum for that surface protein38.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To create the intensity along the filament figures, movies recorded at 30 ms exposure with 1000 frames were projected in FIJI to make a single summation image.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FIJI</div><div>suggested: (Fiji, RRID:SCR_002285)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 13. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: The study was approved by the local institutional ethics committee.<br>Consent: Informed written consent was obtained from each patient.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data collection and primary processing (identification and integration of the chromatographic peaks) were performed in MassLynx v4.1 (Waters, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MassLynx</div><div>suggested: (MassLynx , RRID:SCR_014271)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical data analysis was performed using SPSS Statistics v. 22 (IBM, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  This study has a number of limitations. Firstly, it is a small sample size, the heterogeneity of patient groups, the lack of follow-up of patients, which makes limited generalisability of the findings in a single-center study, the findings indicate the importance of assessing SAM levels and the SAM/SAH ratio for use as markers of COVID-19 prognosis or for the use of methyltransferase inhibitors for the treatment of COVID-19.
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  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: Deionized water in a 1 L Nalgene sample collection bottle was used as a field blank.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.4.7 N1 and N2 Standard: Armored RNA Quant SARS-CoV-2 control, which encapsulates the in vitro transcribed RNA template in a protective protein coat and targets the SARS-CoV-2 viral nucleocapsid (N) region, was used as a positive control and run in duplicate for every set of reactions targeting N1 and N2. 2.4.8 Limit of Detection, Limit of Quantification, and Limit of Blank: For the determination of LoD using RT-ddPCR, the Limit of Blank (LoB) was elucidated from eight replicates of negative matrix samples derived from influent collected at multiple WWTP throughout eastern NC.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>N1</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_Z404)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.4.2 Detection and quantification using RT-ddPCR: RT-ddPCR was utilized to quantify SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies targeting N1 and N2, described previously (Table S1), and utilizing a two-step reverse transcription and RT-ddPCR.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>N2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">RT-qPCR runs were analyzed by Bio-Rad CFX Manager software version 3.1 (Bio-Rad Laboratories).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bio-Rad CFX Manager</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CFX</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bio-Rad Laboratories</div><div>suggested: (Bio-Rad Laboratories, RRID:SCR_008426)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">KingFisher script is provided in the supplementary material (Table S7a).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KingFisher</div><div>suggested: (Hamilton NIMBUS Presto and ID NIMBUS Presto Assay Ready Workstation, RRID:SCR_019998)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.461142: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The SRRs selected for this study (Table S1) were from patient lung samples and eight cell lines: human embryonic kidney 293 cells with SV40 large T antigen (HEK 293T), human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs), human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived alveolar type II epithelial-like cells (iAT2s), iPSCs, Vero E6, primary human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBE), human alveolar epithelial cells (lung adenocarcinoma) located on basal side (A549), and human bronchial epithelial cells (lung adenocarcinoma) located on apical side (Calu-3).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human embryonic kidney 293</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Determining biological significance of the “core” transcriptome using g:Profiler and R code to generate PCA plots and clusters of GO terms: Given the too small sample size, the uniquely downregulated genes from the HEK 293T cell line analysis as well as both the upregulated and downregulated genes from the NHBE cell line analysis were examined individually in order to understand the likely biological role of these genes in viral infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK 293T</div><div>suggested: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 1018, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Choosing BioProjects: Human transcriptomic data for uninfected and SARS-CoV-2 infected samples were obtained from the NCBI BioProject database.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NCBI BioProject</div><div>suggested: (NCBI BioProject, RRID:SCR_004801)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A BioProject was chosen for the study if there were at least two replicates (at least two different SRR numbers) for both uninfected and SARS-CoV-2 infected samples.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioProject</div><div>suggested: (NCBI BioProject, RRID:SCR_004801)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The key steps in the Galaxy workflow are FASTQC, Trimmomatic, HISAT2, and FeatureCounts.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FeatureCounts</div><div>suggested: (featureCounts, RRID:SCR_012919)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">First, FASTQC is run on the datasets to check for the sequence files’ qualities.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FASTQC</div><div>suggested: (FastQC, RRID:SCR_014583)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Second, the Trimmomatic tool is used to remove Illumina adapter sequences from the reads, to trim the low-quality sequences from either end of the reads, and to remove any sequences with a less than 25 nt length.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Trimmomatic</div><div>suggested: (Trimmomatic, RRID:SCR_011848)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Third, HISAT2 gives the overall alignment rate, thereby allowing the user to know how much of each sequence file maps back to the human genome.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HISAT2</div><div>suggested: (HISAT2, RRID:SCR_015530)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Choosing SRRs: All SRRs present in a particular BioProject for both uninfected and SARS-CoV-2 infected samples were selected for an initial run-through of the experimental workflow in Galaxy.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Galaxy</div><div>suggested: (Galaxy, RRID:SCR_006281)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In each DESeq2 analysis, the counts tables (generated from the FeatureCounts step) of the replicates of a cell line were compared based on one factor, “Infection”, with two levels: “Uninfected” and “Infected”.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq2</div><div>suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In order to screen for differentially regulated genes that are unique to each cell line, the upregulated and downregulated genes from each of the three selected cell lines were compared with the corresponding upregulated and downregulated genes from the combined analysis using Microsoft Excel.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Instead, a gene ontology (GO) analysis was performed on those sets of results by inputting each list of genes into g:Profiler, a web server for functional enrichment analysis, to obtain gene ontology (GO) terms from each of the three sub-ontologies: Biological Process (BP), Cellular Component (CC), and Molecular Function (MF) [21].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>g:Profiler</div><div>suggested: (G:Profiler, RRID:SCR_006809)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: All samples used in this work are approved by the Ethics Committee of the Aggeu Magalhaes Institute Ethical Committee—CAAE 32333120.4.0000.5190, the Ethics Committee of Amazonas State University (no. 25430719.6.0000.5016), the Ethics Committee of FIOCRUZ-IOC (68118417.6.0000.5248) and the Brazilian Ministry of Health SISGEN (A1767C3).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Genome assembly and intrahost variant analysis: The Fastq reads were submitted in an in house workflow available at https://github.com/dezordi/IAM_SARSCOV2 that performs the following steps: The remotion of duplicated reads, adapters and read extremities with less than 20 of phred score quality with the fastp tool 19; A genome assembly guided by reference was performed with BWA 20 mapping reads against the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan reference genome (NC_045512.2); The consensus genomes were generated with samtools mpileup 21 and iVar 22, using a threshold quality score of 30 and calling SNPs and indels present as major allele frequencies; After the consensus generation, the bam-readcount tool 23 was used to retrieve the proportion of each base (A, C, T, G) present in each position of the bam file and a in house python script (intrahost.py) was used to identify position with putative intra-host variants related to minor allele frequencies following specific rules: The minor variant (MinV) should represent at least 5% of total position depth, and the MinV should have present in reads of both senses (at least 5% in each sense) with at least 100 reads of depth.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BWA</div><div>suggested: (BWA, RRID:SCR_010910)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phylogenetic Analysis: A reference alignment was created using MAFFT 27 with the 6,167 genomes, which represents the genomes present in the nextstrain 28 phylogeny with less than 5% of N content on 24th May 2021 and Brazilian genomes obtained through a cd-hit-est 29 clusterization of genomes present on GISAID at 16th March 2021 with high-quality, with more than 99.8% sequence identity and from the same Brazilian state.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAFFT</div><div>suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This is certainly an underestimation due to the limitation of detecting true coinfection events of earlier low diverging SARS-CoV-2 lineages that dominated the first year of the pandemic. Despite that, considering the lower bound of recorded SARS-CoV-2 cases worldwide until July 2021 were around 190 million (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html), we can infer that at least 1,1 million patients have been coinfected across the world, which in turn provides a substantial window of opportunity for SARS-CoV-2 recombination events. Moreover, this estimate is certainly downwardly biased because the number of asymptomatic infections is largely not accounted for.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Primate diurnal gene expression atlas: FPKM expression values from 756 samples were downloaded from NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus, with GEO accession number: GSE98965 (Mure et al. 2018).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gene Expression Omnibus</div><div>suggested: (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, RRID:SCR_005012)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">JTK_CYCLE (Hughes et al. 2010; Wu et al. 2016) was employed to detect the global rhythmic parameters, such as amplitude, phase period, and the significance level.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>JTK_CYCLE</div><div>suggested: (JTK_CYCLE, RRID:SCR_017962)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, ComBat was used to eliminate the variations among organs (Johnson et al. 2007) and the JTK_CYCLE was used to detect global cycling genes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ComBat</div><div>suggested: (ComBat, RRID:SCR_010974)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Protein-protein interactions were obtained from the STRING (Szklarczyk et al. 2019) and HIPPIE (Alanis-Lobato et al. 2017) databases; genetic interactions were downloaded from the BioGRID (Oughtred et al. 2019) database, and functional relevant interactions were downloaded from the KEGG pathway database (Kanehisa and Goto 2000).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STRING</div><div>suggested: (STRING, RRID:SCR_005223)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioGRID</div><div>suggested: (BioGrid Australia, RRID:SCR_006334)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Functional enrichment analysis: The function annotation of global cycling genes was performed by g:Profiler (Raudvere et al. 2019).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>g:Profiler</div><div>suggested: (G:Profiler, RRID:SCR_006809)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.461041: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The mutated structures were prepared using the CHIMERA software package.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHIMERA</div><div>suggested: (Chimera, RRID:SCR_002959)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 18 and 19. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.19.460950: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
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  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SVC-L1 is a faster method when compared to other available techniques for feature selection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SVC-L1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For our dataset we computed 15 types of composition-based features like, AAC, DPC, TPC, ATC and many more as given in Table 1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ATC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ranking and Selection of features: In order to extract the crucial features from a larger pool of features generated using Pfeature, we utilized SVC-L1-based feature selection technique from Scikit-learn package.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Scikit-learn</div><div>suggested: (scikit-learn, RRID:SCR_002577)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We implemented Scikit-learn package of Python to build these machine learning prediction models [35].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the South Central-Berkshire Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 20/SC/0158) approved the trial protocol.<br>Consent: Online consent was obtained from all participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Patient and public involvement: We convened a patient and public involvement group of five women and two men who input into the patient-facing materials, choice of trial outcomes, and delivery plans.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">People were ineligible to be randomised to colchicine if they were already taking colchicine or if colchicine was contraindicated according to the British National Formulary.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The trial team was blinded to randomisation probabilities.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Sample size calculation and statistical analysis are detailed in the Adaptive Design Report (appendix pp 130-230) and the Master Statistical Analysis Plan (appendix pp 81-129).</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">of the Master Statistical Analysis Plan, appendix pp 102-109</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Master Statistical Analysis Plan</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Strengths and weaknesses: Strengths include the pragmatic design of the PRINCIPLE trial which allowed for efficient evaluation of the effectiveness of colchicine as an early, standalone intervention as it might be used in the community. We focused on patients at increased risk of complications and used routine electronic health records to confirm hospitalisation/death, and obtained primary outcome data on over 95% of participants. Although our primary analysis was restricted to SARS-CoV-2 positive patients, we conducted secondary analyses of the co-primary outcomes among patients with suspected COVID-19 but without PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, as limited SARS-CoV-2 testing may necessitate early empirical treatment in low resource settings. Furthermore, variation in PCR testing sensitivity, particularly if self-administered, means some participants will have had false negative tests.28 Time to recovery estimates were similar in the SARS-CoV-2 positive population, all participants irrespective of SARS-CoV-2 status, as well as the concurrent randomisation SARS-CoV-2 positive population (the latter populations are most analogous to those in traditional two arm trials). Although the sample size of the colchicine group in PRINCIPLE was relatively small, the Bayesian primary analysis model leverages previous enrolments in the usual care arm to increase the precision of estimates, which allow us to declare futility with high precision due to very low probability of a meaningfu...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ISRCTN86534580</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.20.21263794

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263794: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: 9 The use of the anonymized clinical data of patients from the SEMI-COVID-Registry was approved by the Provincial Research Ethics Committee of Málaga (Spain).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All predictions were done blinded to the final clinical outcome.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The metrics were calculated using R packages pROC21 (version 1.17.0.1) and caret15 (R package version 6.0-86).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pROC21</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">COPE model is a linear regression model, which uses variables age, respiratory rate, C-reactive protein, lactic dehydrogenase, albumin, and urea.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>COPE</div><div>suggested: (COPE, RRID:SCR_009153)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The overall performance of CODOP has inherent limitations, some of them generalizable to any MLH. On the one side, our approach to using training and test datasets with a high degree of perturbations (see above) adds several sources of variability32: pre-analytical due to differences in blood sampling, analytical due to different laboratory protocols, intra- and inter-individual, and inter-hospital and geographical differences in clinical practices. As an additional factor, the high diversity of COVID-19 encompassing more than 60 disease subtypes7 sets a limitation in terms of the discriminability ability and the overall clinical utility of any MHL. In contrast to other predictors and to facilitate its use, CODOP does not take into account the level of care received by each patient (e.g., ICU versus basic care), which influences the outcome of the patient and perturbs the discrimination ability of CODOP (as predictions are made with the data from blood analyses at hospital admission). A clear example is a slightly lower performance of CODOP-Ovt (sensitivity of 73%) in the case of the “Hospital Vélez Sarsfield‥ from Buenos Aires (named as Argentina (b) in Figure 4B), where all patients analysed by CODOP were finally treated in the ICU. On the other hand, CODOP-Unt would have correctly suggested triaging 84% of these patients already on the day of admission, therefore offering a significant clinical utility. Finally, the clinical utility of MHL has to take into account the chan...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (DSRB 2021/00095) and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04802278); informed consent was obtained.<br>Consent: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (DSRB 2021/00095) and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04802278); informed consent was obtained.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We conducted a prospective cohort study of lactating women.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04802278</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gestational Immunity for Transfer</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.20.461025

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.461025: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.14.21263556

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.14.21263556: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Hubei CDC (approval reference number: HBCDC-AF/SC-08/02.0).<br>IRB: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Hubei CDC (approval reference number: HBCDC-AF/SC-08/02.0).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then, 50μl of an HRP labeled goat anti-human IgG antibody (Cat# ab6759, Abcam, UK) diluted in 1×PBS containing 5% skimmed milk were added to each well and incubated for 1 hour at 37°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab6759, RRID:AB_955434)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies: The neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were detected using a commercialized surrogate neutralization test developed by Suzhou Xinbo Biotechnology Ltd. Company (PerkinElmer, China).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: All the statistical analyses were conducted using Graphpad Prism 9 (GraphPad Software, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A major limitation of this study is the inadequate follow up, which do not allow us to compare the persistence of antibody responses between PLWH and the healthy control. Despite of this limitation, our study demonstrates that the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine was immunogenic and safe in PLWH stable on cART.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.17.21263748: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">These we believe will further strengthen our statistical power and elucidate underlying needs not capture. 2.6. Funding: In-kind support was provided by RHIEOS Ventures.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The link to the questionnaire was sent to patients and their parents via SMS, WhatsApp and emails upon which feedback was received via the designed platform – RedCap (a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases developed by Vanderbilt University in 2004).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RedCap</div><div>suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.6 Data Analysis: SPSS 25.0 was used for data analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: Data sources and exclusions: Specimens were sampled from the provincial database that captures all RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 in BC along with client, collection and testing details although symptoms and onset dates are not consistently captured.<br>IRB: Ethics statement: Data linkages and analyses were authorized by the Provincial Health Officer under the Public Health Act and exempt from research ethics board review.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Source population: There are ∼1.4 million adults 50-69-years-old in BC (27% of the 5.2 million population) of whom 51% are 50-59 years and 51% are women [12].</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Three approaches were explored for test-negative control selection: (1) all negative specimens; (2) only the most recent negative specimen; or (3) only one randomly-selected negative specimen.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The latter was chosen balancing the capacity to genetically characterize all contributing case viruses, and the vaccine coverage and infection rates required for a sufficient number of vaccinated, variant-specific cases driving statistical power.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Detailed methods for genetic characterization are provided in Supplementary Material 1, predicated foremost on whole genome sequencing but also RT-PCR single-nucleotide polymorphism screen for Alpha and Gamma variants [10,15,16].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gamma</div><div>suggested: (GAMMA, RRID:SCR_009484)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The main limitation of our study, as elsewhere, is reliance on general laboratory submissions and clinical or surveillance data subject to missing information, misclassification, and selection bias. We attempted to standardize the likelihood of test-positivity by excluding specimens collected for non-clinical screening purposes (e.g. private testing). Testing for vaccine-associated adverse events mimicking but not due to COVID-19 (e.g., flu-like symptoms) may explain positively-biased VE estimates during the first few days following vaccination, which persisted longer for ChAdOx1 perhaps owing to heightened vaccine safety concerns. Aligned with that hypothesis, we highlight lower test-positivity among vaccinated individuals during days 0-3 vs. 4-7 post-vaccination (Supplementary Table 4). The TND partially standardizes for healthcare seeking behaviours, while other variations associated with both vaccination and exposure risk could still play a role. We cannot rule out residual bias and confounding. Unlike mRNA vaccines, ChAdOx1 was available to eligible age groups in BC through pharmacies without awaiting invitation to public clinics; those at higher risk may have preferentially received this vaccine, contributing to lower VE. Conversely, if ChAdOx1 recipients were generally more risk averse in their behaviours our ChAdOx1 VE may also be an over-estimate. Reassuring against bias in either direction, ChAdOx1 estimates reported here align well with clinical trial findings. In ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263812: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Children and adolescents aged 6 months to 17 years were randomly selected from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office’s registers and were invited with their family members for a free anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: Measures: HRQoL and psychological distress - adolescent’s perception: HRQoL as perceived by the adolescents was evaluated over the previous week using the validated French version of the standardized KIDSCREEN-10 scale [16].</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The study presents several limitations. First, it is a cross-sectional study relying on self-reported data, without any pre-pandemic hindsight coming from the same sample. It does not allow us to firmly conclude whether the reported adolescents’ low quality of life is caused by the pandemic. The sample size is quite small, which limited statistical power. Finally, though randomly invited, study participants come from a higher socioeconomic background than the Geneva population. As a consequence, estimates of low well-being and psychological distress may have been underestimated. This study also presents several strengths. First, it relies on a randomly selected population-based sample. Thanks to the family-based design, data comes from both adolescents and their parents, which enables comparisons of both perceptions. Furthermore, previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is assessed with an objective measure. Finally, the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the sample are assessed through a wide range of indicators, at the individual and household levels.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The barriers to ensuring entry of primary care providers into the vaccine distribution pool should be further addressed, and include infrastructure and equipment limitations that may be mitigated through the availability of newer cold storage packages and the recent establishment of longer shelf-life for available vaccines,15–17 electronic registration and reporting infrastructure that may be more streamlined and accessible to providers,18,19 and--perhaps most of all--the inclusion of primary care representatives on state and local vaccine distribution committees and coordination agencies.20 The international experience of vaccine distribution has highlighted that several other nations, particularly those in the UK, Europe, and East Asia, have made use of distribution through primary care practices as a backbone for accelerating vaccination towards herd immunity levels.21 There are important limitations to the data and conclusions we derive here. First, the datasets are each limited in different ways, but all are limited to the civilian US population, and therefore do not account for important institutionalized populations who may be at particularly high risk for COVID-19 infection. Dedicated surveys of vaccination capacity, distribution, and gaps in care are ongoing for incarcerated and nursing home populations who have experienced particularly high risk.22,23 Second, the data are dated and historical, and therefore do not capture the recent shift towards utilization of tele...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board at George Washington University with a waiver of consent on March 30, 2020. 2.2 Study Population: Patients with a positive nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on an index ED visit or within 14 days prior to the ED visit were included in this analysis.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All data was entered into a secure REDCap database.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REDCap</div><div>suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We completed all analyses using SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  4.1 Strengths/Limitations: Strengths of our study include a high quality chart review for all of the patients included in the study, along with a 30 day buffer period after the patients’ index ED presentation to check for any subsequent admissions, re-admissions, or worsening clinical course. We reclassified patients into different severity categories based on worsening disease course and the requirement of elevated levels of care. This helps to account for the unpredictable clinical course that COVID-19 may assume in different patients. Furthermore, the three categories of severity are pragmatic as they are the three most common dispositions for patients after ED evaluation and as such, are based on the needs of the patient. Although the three categories are delineated along the three strata of patient care, one limitation of the study is that the categories of severity were still dependent on individual physician decision regarding the necessary level of care. Due to the fluctuating prevalence of COVID-19 patients over the course of the pandemic, this decision may also have been influenced by hospital system factors such as crowding or surges in the patient census. Furthermore, due to the evolving clinical care and guidance over the year of the pandemic, there may have been shifting standards for admission. Our study was a single-center retrospective study, so there may be variation in generalization to other institutions due to different patient populations or institutiona...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: Ethical approval: This study was approved by the local institutional ethical committee.<br>Consent: Written consent was taken from patients wherever applicable.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data processing: Basecalling was performed on raw image data using bcl2fastq v2.20.0.422 (Illumina).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>bcl2fastq</div><div>suggested: (bcl2fastq , RRID:SCR_015058)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Quality control of FASTQ files was performed using FASTQC v0.11.9 [8].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FASTQC</div><div>suggested: (FastQC, RRID:SCR_014583)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Poor quality bases and adapters were trimmed using Trimmomatic [9].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Trimmomatic</div><div>suggested: (Trimmomatic, RRID:SCR_011848)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Alignment of reads to the indexed reference genome NC_045512.2 was done using HISAT2 v2.1.0 [10].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HISAT2</div><div>suggested: (HISAT2, RRID:SCR_015530)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Coverage across the genome was calculated using samtools depth.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PANGO v3.0.5 was used to assign lineages to the consensus sequences [11].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PANGO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sequences were aligned against the WH1 reference genome using MAFFT and IQTREE was used to construct a phylogenetic time tree using the sequence collection date [13,14].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAFFT</div><div>suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: 15-17 The registry has been approved by the college administration and institutional ethics committee (CDSCO Registration Number CR/762/Inst/RJ/2015).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To evaluate association of COVID-19 related adverse outcomes (death, invasive ventilation, non-invasive ventilation) with age, male sex, hypertension, diabetes and tobacco use, we performed a stepwise logistic regression analysis.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses: The data were computerized and processing was performed using commercially available statistical software, SPSS v.20.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A study limitation is that we included COVID-19 patients with known hypertension and diabetes at time of admission as risk factor. Given the fact that in India only about half of the patients with hypertension and two-thirds with diabetes are aware of their condition,19 the prevalence of these conditions might have been higher in our cohort. However, many individuals with hypertension present with low BP in acute COVID-19 and therefore estimation of prevalence of hypertension based on measured BP would have been erroneous. Moreover, our unadjusted OR of 2.22 (CI 1.74-2.51) and age-sex adjusted OR of 1.32 (CI 1.02-1.70) is similar to many previous studies and meta-analyses have calculated hypertension related OR in COVID-19 between 1.90 (CI 1.69-2.35)3 and 2.50 (CI 2.15-2.90),5 similar to the present study. We did not inquire the type of anti-hypertensive patients in our study cohort. Certain BP medications such as renin-angiotensin system blockers are known to be useful in COVID-19.20,21 Previous meta-analyses including studies from India have identified diabetes as equally important as hypertension for adverse COVID-19 related outcomes.11,12 In the present study the unadjusted OR for diabetes and deaths were 1.88 (CI 1.46-2.43), however, the risk significantly attenuated after age and sex adjustment to OR 1.16 (CI 0.89-1.52) which is different from the previous studies. In the present study, we included patients with known diabetes only and this is a study limitation.22 It i...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.15.21263338

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This project was ruled as exempt from the review process by the Colgate University Institutional Review Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Following quarantine, the whole campus population (students and employees) were randomly selected for surveillance testing at a rate of 6% of each residence hall/area or campus employee population per week (fall semester), or scheduled for surveillance testing once every 2 weeks (spring semester).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data was analyzed using GraphPad Prism statistical software package as indicated.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One limitation of the study is that, due to the layout of campus infrastructure, several of the sample collection points did not only capture waste from student residences. In some cases, other campus buildings contributed to the waste stream (though every effort was made to minimize this), whereas in other cases, the residence halls also house additional administrative or classroom spaces. Additionally, custodial and facilities maintenance staff routinely accessed the buildings and may have contributed to the waste stream at the sampling locations. In one instance in the fall semester, a positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA signal in a wastewater sample was used to guide targeted PCR-based testing of students in residences, which did not identify any positive student cases. Concurrently, however, an employee that spent time in the space(s) contributing to that waste stream did test positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, although whether they used restroom facilities in those location(s) is not known. Therefore, it is possible that other positive wastewater samples that did not coincide with a positive case may not be “false positives,” per se, but rather reflect other non-residents that contributed to the waste stream. It is also possible that these positive wastewater samples reflect infected students that were not identified by individual surveillance testing, either because they were not tested during their infection or their test results were falsely negative. There are several additiona...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263566: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: The statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 27.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The comparison of GIE and Non-GIE facilities regarding the presumed source of infection was adjusted with Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel-Test to control the confounding effect of the facility healthcare delivery setting.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel-Test</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Like other cross-sectional studies, our study has some limitations. Due to the recruitment strategy via the professional associations, a selection bias cannot be ruled out. In particular, facilities that established elaborate protection and hygiene measures might have been higher motivated to participate. On the other hand, facilities with infected HCWs may also be more motivated to participate. Moreover, there is an uneven distribution of the medical facility types between examined specialties. For instance, in dental medicine, hardly any clinic was represented in comparison to the more than 1000 participating private practices.Nonetheless, Non-GIE specialties had significantly more private practices due to the regional specificity of the respective fields of activity. Another shortcoming of the study worth mentioning is that this study is cross-sectional inquiring information over a considerable period comprising three quarters of the year 2020. Moreover, all calculations presented in the manuscript are based on the assessments and judgments made for a private practice or a hospital ward and its workforce by one person. Despite the limitation mentioned above, the present study is the first to provide data on prevalence and revealing risk factors of SARS-CoV-2 infection among HCW in medical disciplines associated with AGP, such as GIE, ORL, OMS, and dentistry. Due to the results provided in this scientific manuscript, GIE seems to be at a higher risk of infection compared to...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.09.16.21263686

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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Written informed consent for participation was obtained according to the Declaration of Helsinki and protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Pennsylvania.<br>IRB: Written informed consent for participation was obtained according to the Declaration of Helsinki and protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Pennsylvania.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After resting overnight, CD40 blocking antibody was added to both duplicate wells for 15 minutes prior to stimulation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD40</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plates were then washed again with PBS-T three times and 50 µl of horseradish peroxidase (HRP)–labeled goat anti-human IgG (1:5000; Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories) secondary antibodies was added.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Serum antibody concentrations were reported as arbitrary units relative to the CR3022 monoclonal antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CR3022</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Also included in this mixture to neutralize any potential VSV-G carryover virus was 1E9F9, a mouse anti-VSV Indiana G, at a concentration of 600 ng/ml (Absolute Antibody).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-VSV</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 RBD and FL proteins were produced in 293F cells and purified using nickel–nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) resin (Qiagen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus neutralization assay: Production of VSV pseudotypes with SARS-CoV-2 S: 293T cells plated 24 hours previously at 5 × 106 cells per 10 cm dish were transfected using calcium phosphate with 35 µg of pCG1 SARS-CoV-2 S D614G delta18 or pCG1 SARS-CoV-2 S B.1.351 delta 18 expression plasmid encoding a codon optimized SARS-CoV2 S gene with an 18 residue truncation in the cytoplasmic tail (kindly provided by Stefan Pohlmann).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Vero E6 cells stably expressing TMPRSS2 were seeded in 100 µl at 2.5×104 cells/well in a 96 well collagen coated plate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The serum-virus mixture was then used to replace the media on VeroE6 TMPRSS2 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6 TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus neutralization assay: Production of VSV pseudotypes with SARS-CoV-2 S: 293T cells plated 24 hours previously at 5 × 106 cells per 10 cm dish were transfected using calcium phosphate with 35 µg of pCG1 SARS-CoV-2 S D614G delta18 or pCG1 SARS-CoV-2 S B.1.351 delta 18 expression plasmid encoding a codon optimized SARS-CoV2 S gene with an 18 residue truncation in the cytoplasmic tail (kindly provided by Stefan Pohlmann).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCG1 SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">. viSNE analysis: viSNE analysis was performed on Cytobank (https://cytobank.org).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytobank</div><div>suggested: (Cytobank, RRID:SCR_014043)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">AIM assay data were visualized using RStudio.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: GraphPad Prism software version 9 was used for generating dot plots, bar plots and the correlation images presented in this work.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  These limitations emphasize the need for directly probing GC responses by adopting minimally invasive approaches, such as fine-needle-aspiration, that allow longitudinal sampling of the vaccine draining lymph nodes without requiring their surgical excision. Only two published studies ever described human GC responses to vaccination (against influenza or SARS-CoV-2) in humans by using the FNA technique (Turner et al., 2020, 2021). One study (Turner et al., 2021), reported S-specific GC B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in lymph nodes, but did not investigate the generation of RBD-specific GC B cells or the connection between SARS-CoV-2-specific GC B cells and Tfh cells, nAbs, and SARS-CoV-2-specific memory B cells. Our study sought to address these open questions by performing an in-depth profiling of the GC responses elicited by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines directly in lymphoid tissue. We found that these vaccines prompted the formation of robust Full S and RBD-specific GC B cell as well as Tfh cell responses localized in draining axillary lymph nodes. Importantly, our study revealed that lymphoid tissue SARS-CoV-2-specific GC B cell populations were strongly associated with the ability to produce SARS-CoV-2 nAbs, as further supported by the evidence that immunosuppressed individuals, who cannot form GCs, present a deeply blunted nAb production (Results in KTX are discussed at length below). Although to a lower degree, we also found that bona fide Tfh cells in drain...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Anonymized clinical and biological data were analyzed in accordance with the Montpellier University Hospital institutional review board approval (IRB-MTP _2021_04_202000534). Outcomes: SARS-CoV-2 infection was diagnosed using RT-PCR on nasopharyngeal swab (Allplex 2019-nCoV assay, Seegene).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">12 SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG levels were measured using the SARS-CoV-2 IgG II Quant assay (Abbott Diagnostics) 6 weeks after the second vaccine dose, and during the outbreak.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Where sample size was very small and VE estimates highly imprecise, estimates are not presented.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  27,28 Limitations: The strengths and limitations of our dataset and an evaluation of vaccine effectiveness using the test negative case control design have been described in detail previously.1,6 There are some notable limitations worth highlighting that could particularly affect the interpretation of results on waning. First, there are important differences in the groups that received different vaccines as part of the roll-out of the national programme in the UK. For example, Comirnaty was less likely to be used in care homes and among individuals in clinical risk groups, in particular housebound individuals, due to challenges in ultra-low temperature storage and delivery. Instead, Vaxzevria was more likely to be given to these groups but this vaccine was not given to healthy adults under 40 years of age following a recommendation to use alternative vaccines in this age-group because of the risk of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia.29 While we do adjust for age-group and clinical risk groups in our analysis, this is unlikely to fully mitigate the differences. Second, over time there will be an increasing number of individuals who would have been infected both prior to and after vaccination. Where they have previously tested positive they will be excluded from the analysis, but many will remain unknown. This means that an increasing proportion of the unvaccinated control group may have some level of protection from natural infection. This will attenuate vaccine effe...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There were several limitations to our approach. First, we used data from CDC’s Nationwide Commercial Laboratory Seroprevalence Surveys because they provide nucleocapsid seroprevalence estimates for each state. As these surveys use blood samples submitted for reasons unrelated to COVID-19 (e.g., routine clinical visits), they might not be representative of the broader U.S. population. Specifically, people who have blood samples taken during routine medical care or sick visits sought health care and had a blood test and, therefore, may differ in their overall health and disease exposure risk from the general US population.[16] If these individuals are more likely to have other conditions or exposures that also put them at increased risk for COVID-19, this could result in a higher seroprevalence estimate from the survey population being applied to the general US population in our analysis. Second, although we conducted a sensitivity analysis to explore the potential impact of waning immunity, we were unable to more precisely account for waning immunity after infection or vaccination due to a lack of data on date of infection and limited information about duration of natural immunity. Emerging data suggest that immunity due to infection and vaccination may wane over time and may depend on factors including individual characteristics and the SARS-CoV-2 variant. Although this could result in an overestimate of immunity in our calculations (both primary and sensitivity analyses), ou...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS: Ethics Statement: All work was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki in terms of informed consent and approval by an appropriate institutional board.<br>IRB: The study was approved by the respective Institutional Review Boards (no. 19.381 at CHUM and no. 2020/ST/049 at ASST Santi Paolo et Carlo)</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For evaluation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), parental CEM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The detection of SARS-CoV-2-antigen specific B cells was done by adding the RBD probes to the antibody cocktail (IgM BUV737, CD24 BUV805, IgG BV421, CD3 BV480, CD56 BV480, CD14 BV480, CD16 BV480, CD20 BV711, CD21 BV786</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD24</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 742010, RRID:AB_2871308)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD56</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 566162, RRID:AB_2739559)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD14</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 566141, RRID:AB_2739539)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD16</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 348805, RRID:AB_2889063)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD20</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 743611, RRID:AB_2741622)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD21</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 742764, RRID:AB_2741029)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell lines: 293T human embryonic kidney and HOS cells (obtained from ATCC) were maintained at 37°C under 5% CO2 in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Wisent) containing 5% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (VWR) and 100 μg/ml of penicillin-streptomycin (Wisent).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HOS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">293T-ACE2 cell line was previously reported (Prévost et al., 2020).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell surface staining and flow cytometry analysis: 293T cells were co-transfected with a GFP expressor (pIRES2-GFP, Clontech) in combination with plasmids encoding the full-length Spikes of SARS-CoV-2 variants or Spikes from different Betacoronaviruses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell surface staining and flow cytometry analysis: 293T cells were co-transfected with a GFP expressor (pIRES2-GFP, Clontech) in combination with plasmids encoding the full-length Spikes of SARS-CoV-2 variants or Spikes from different Betacoronaviruses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pIRES2-GFP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus neutralization assay: To produce the pseudoviruses, 293T cells were transfected with the lentiviral vector pNL4.3 R-E- Luc (NIH AIDS Reagent Program) and a plasmid encoding for the indicated S glycoprotein (D614G, B.1.1.7, P.1, B.1.351, B.1.617.2, B.1.526 and SARS-CoV) at a ratio of 10:1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pNL4.3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All samples were acquired on an LSRII cytometer (BD Biosciences) and data analysis was performed using FlowJo v10.7.1 (Tree Star).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics were analyzed using GraphPad Prism version 8.0.1 (GraphPad, San Diego, CA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Software scripts and visualization: Edge bundling graphs were generated in undirected mode in R and RStudio using ggraph, igraph, tidyverse,and RColorBrewer packages (R; R studio).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RColorBrewer</div><div>suggested: (RColorBrewer, RRID:SCR_016697)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.17.21263528: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: All study activities were approved by the Rutgers Institutional Review Board (Pro2020000655).<br>IACUC: Biosafety protocols: All work involving blood products from SARS-CoV-2-infected subjects were performed in a biosafety level 2+ (BSL-2+) laboratory utilizing protocols approved by the Rutgers Institutional Biosafety Committee.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PBMCs were stained with fixable viability stain 780 (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, USA), incubated for 10 minutes with human Fc receptor blocking reagent (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA), and then stained with the two fluorescent RBD tetramers, antibodies to CD19-BV700 (HIB19,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HIB19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bio Legend, San Diego, CA, USA) and CD20-PE-CF594 (2H7, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA) to detect RBD-specific B cells, and APC-Cy7-labelled antibodies against CD3 (UCHT1), CD4 (OKT4), CD14 (C1D3), and CD16 (CD16) (all from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) to eliminate non-B cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD20-PE-CF594</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCHT1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD4</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 391503, RRID:AB_2721611)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD14</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 348805, RRID:AB_2889063)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD16</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell lines: Vero E6 were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">USA; HeLa cells stably expressing ACE2 (HeLa-ACE2) were obtained from Dennis Burton at the Scripps Research Institute 2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300194/p772_HeLa, RRID:CVCL_0030)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assay: HeLa-Ace2 cells were seeded in 96-well black optical-bottom plates at a density of 1 × 104 cells/well in FluoroBrite DMEM (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, USA) containing 4% FBS (Seradigm)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-Ace2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All flow cytometry data were analyzed with FlowJo v12 software (FlowJo LLC, Ashland, OR, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, StataCorp LLC, College Station, USA) and GraphPad Prism version 8.4 (Graph Pad Software Inc.,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: Animals and study design: Animal experiments were carried out in compliance with all pertinent US National Institutes of Health regulations and were conducted with approved animal protocols from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the research facilities.<br>Field Sample Permit: Animal studies were conducted in compliance with all relevant local, state, and federal regulations and were approved by the New Iberia Research Center.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In the mRNA-primed cohort, 16 adult male and female Mauritius cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) aged 4-10 years, selected based on their responses to the primary vaccination, were randomly allocated to 4 groups of 4 animals according to their baseline characteristics.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In the mRNA-primed cohort, 16 adult male and female Mauritius cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) aged 4-10 years, selected based on their responses to the primary vaccination, were randomly allocated to 4 groups of 4 animals according to their baseline characteristics.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All immunologic analyses were performed blinded on serum collected at 7, 14, 21 and 28 days post-boost injection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA): Nunc microwell plates were coated with SARS-CoV S-GCN4 (GeneArt, expressed in Expi 293 cell line) protein at 0.5 ug/ml in PBS overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293</div><div>suggested: NCI-DTP Cat# NCI-293TT, RRID:CVCL_1D85)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The study has several limitations. Firstly, the study included a small number of animals, namely 4-5 macaques per group. Secondly, the booster was evaluated in mRNA- and subunit-primed macaques only, as adenovirus vector vaccine primed macaques were not available, however, this priming vaccine is included in the booster vaccine clinical trial (NCT04762680). Thirdly, the interval between the primary vaccination and the booster was 7 months and evaluating shorter and longer intervals would be of interest. Finally, the mechanism underlying the cross-neutralization conferred by the booster, i.e. broadening of the repertoire of antibodies or selection of pre-existing specificities, would need to be further defined. While the antibody repertoire is not easily accessible due to limitation of the immunological tools in macaques, analysis of the Ab quality using system serology and of memory B cell population at later timepoints after the booster immunization are ongoing to better characterize the mechanism for cross-protection. In conclusion, a single dose of the CoV2 preS dTM recombinant vaccine (non-adjuvanted monovalent B.1.351, AS03-adjuvanted monovalent D614 or B.1.351 or bivalent D614 + B.1.351) used as a booster in macaques previously vaccinated with mRNA or subunit COVID-19 vaccines induced high and stable levels of cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies against the currently known SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns (Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta) and against the two-decade old S...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04762680</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study of Recombinant Protein Vaccines With Adjuvant as a Pri…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04904549</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study of Monovalent and Bivalent Recombinant Protein Vaccine…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04785144</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Safety and Immunogenicity Study of a SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) V…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Figures were made using the R package ggplot2 version 3.3.2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ggplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The amino acid sequence of Wuhan strain, VOC, and B.1.1.523 variant were aligned in MEGA v10.0.5 with Cluster Omega algorithm, with the Wuhan strain as a reference.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MEGA</div><div>suggested: (Mega BLAST, RRID:SCR_011920)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cluster Omega</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The 3D structure of the spike protein of the B.1.1.523 variant was predicted using CoVSurver (https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/covsurver-mutations-app/)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CoVSurver</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A comprehensive search was completed via PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, medRxiv, and COCHRANE with the following search terms: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome or MIS-C, Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-Co-V-2 or PIMS-TS, COVID-19 and/or SARS-CoV-2, and children, adolescent, adolescence, or pediatric.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 946101, RRID:AB_2892515)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Rostock University Medical Center under the file number A 2020-0086.<br>Consent: Written informed consent was provided by all participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In order to reduce unspecific antibody-conjugate binding, 10 µL FCS, 5 µL True-Stain Monocyte Blocker™ and 5 µL anti-Fc receptor TruStain FcX™ (Biolegend, San Diego/CA, United States) were added and incubated for 15 min on ice.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Fc receptor TruStain FcX™</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 422302, RRID:AB_2818986)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The following amounts of antibody:fluorophore-combinations were used: 0.25 µg CD127:APC/R700 (clone HIL-7R-M21), 1 µg CD147:BV421 (TRA-1-85), 0.5 µg CD45RO:BV480 (UCHL1, BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes/NJ, United States), 1 µg CD11b:PerCP/Cy5.5 (ICRF44), 0.8 µg CD11c:BV785 (3.9), 0.56 µg CD14:BV510 (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCHL1</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 304233, RRID:AB_11219394)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Surface antigens were stained by incubating the cells with following antibody:fluorophore-combinations: 1.25 µg CD3:FITC (clone UCHT1), 0.02 µg CD4:BV750 (SK3), 0.06 µg CD8:BV570 (RPA-T8), 0.5 µg Fas-L:PE (NOK1), 1 µg CD25:APC (BC96, Biolegend), 1.25 µL CD127:APC/R700 (HIL-7R-M21) and 0.25 µg CD137:BV480 (4B4-1, BD Biosciences) for 15 min at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody:fluorophore-combinations</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NOK1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BC96</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HIL-7R-M21</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 566101, RRID:AB_2869742)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analysis of flow cytometry data was done using FlowJo software version 10.7 (FlowJo, Ashland/OR, United States).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">4.6 Statistical Analysis: Data analyses were performed using R (version 3.5.1) and InStat version 3.10 (GraphPad, San Diego/CA, United States).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data visualization was performed with SigmaPlot version 13.0 (Systat Software GmbH, Erkrath, Germany).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SigmaPlot</div><div>suggested: (SigmaPlot, RRID:SCR_003210)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has a few limitations, among them the small samples sizes. Nonetheless, our results depict for both vaccines significantly disparate effects on the peripheral immune layout and on the regulation of T cell effector molecules. Another limitation is the lack of assaying neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies. However, previous studies have already demonstrated that total spike-binding Ig titers strongly correlate with the amounts of neutralizing antibodies and are therefore a suitable measure for humoral protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection5,40–42. In summary, we consider the description of disparate vaccine effects on the immediate immune response the strength of our study and we believe that our results will be of use for further optimization of vaccination strategies.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 7. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Institutional board review was conducted, and The Ethics Committee of South-East Norway confirmed (June 4th 2020, #153204) that external ethical board review was not required Study population: The study population included all HCWs in Norway with a contract of equal or more than hours per week and aged between 20 and 65 at 1st of December 2020.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There are a few limitations that may bring some uncertainty to the study. First, some immigrant HCWs may have been vaccinated in their country of birth but not registered as such in Norway. We do not know the full extent of this, and it may be a reason for a lower rate, especially for the Eastern European countries. Additionally, there are HCW without a permanent identity number, which cannot be included since they are not registered with country of birth. It means that the sample are not capturing all immigrant HCW in Norway, and it may create some systematic differences. However, it is not likely that the magnitude of these limitations may alter the main results. Which of the factors or barriers that have contributed the most to a lower vaccine rate for some groups has not been examined in this study. If vaccine hesitancy is a barrier, we do not know how deeply ingrained it is, or how easily it can change over time with more information about the vaccines. Since the population sample of this study is HCWs, so we could assume that HCWs have better, or at least equal, willingness to take a COVID-19 vaccine than the overall population. To ensure the highest possible vaccination rates in all groups we need more knowledge about this topic - we therefore call for more research to understand barriers to vaccination, including vaccine hesitancy.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
  Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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