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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259999: (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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      The model is subject to several limitations especially when predicting over a long time-frame (Berger et al., 2021), only some of which are accounted for through the uncertainty ranges allowed around calibration parameter values. In particular, it is impossible to predict the extent to which NPIs will be maintained, which is dependent on societal and economic considerations in addition to health concerns. Our assumption that case detection rate scales with testing numbers does not capture the likely decrease in the efficiency of case ascertainment and contact tracing that likely occurs as incidence increases. The inclusion of VoC remains an assumption as described above. Our stratification by vaccination status does not include explicit states to differentiate between those who have received one or two doses of a two-dose regimen. Therefore, we could not consider the policy alternatives of maximising coverage with a single dose versus ensuring more people complete the full two-dose course. We did not simulate past vaccination roll-out because we assumed that vaccination has had a negligible effect to-date, given that only 3.8% of the targeted population have received both vaccine doses while 6.7% have received a single dose as of 24th May, 2021 (JKJAV Malaysia @ Twitter, 2021). Although the second dose of BioNTech-Pfizer appears to result in ∼15% increase in effectiveness (Public Health England, 2021), insufficient data are currently available to compare the effectiveness bet...

      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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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259790: (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">The mean age was 59.2 ±17.3 years and male to female ratio was 5507/5683.</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">Patients who were suspected to be infected by SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed with clinic, laboratory (positive reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction assay of nasopharyngeal swabs or serological IgM/IgG rapid antibody test against SARS-CoV-2) and radiologic (consistent HRCT findings) results and included in the study.</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">Evaluation of Patients with Laboratuary, Course and Prognosis: Our classification of treatment was primarily based on the clinical and radiological findings.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prognosis</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/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259852
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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259852: (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: The patient’s 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">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:
      Conversely, data from Solidarity trial, conducted in 30 countries [11], showed no decrease of in-hospital mortality in patients treated with remdesivir, with the important limitation that other outcomes, clinical improvement and adverse events, were non carefully evaluated. Some important meta-analysis showed that COVID-19 patients receiving remdesivir had significantly higher rates of recovery and hospital discharge with lower rates of developing serious adverse events compared to patients receiving standard of care/placebo [12-13]. However, these analyses confirmed that no significant differences were observed about clinical improvement and rate of mortality during hospitalization. Specifically, mortality was the main outcome reported in all included studies, and none of the studies showed significant decrease of mortality also if they were not adequately powered for mortality outcome [12]. Wang et al. [14] reported the first double blinded, randomized, clinical trial in which were evaluated patients with an interval from symptoms onset to enrollment of 12 days or less. No differences in mortality were recorded in the 2 arms, also if authors highlighted a possible trend towards clinical benefit in remdesivir group. Of importance, a large number of patients in this study were treated also with steroids (65% of patients who received remdesivir and 68% of patients in placebo arm) which may have confounded the results and the conclusions. A strength of our study, with the limit...

      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/10.1101/2021.07.03.21259943
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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.03.21259943: (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 Infection data: The CDC FluView application2 provides weekly number of positive flu tests (we do not separate between different strains) in public health and clinical laboratories for seasons 2010/11 to 2018/19.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FluView</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Least-Squares fitting using the LMFIT Python library ([10]) yields good fits on all seasons.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Limitations of our approach include no stratification by age or contact scenario, significant uncertainties in mask use and efficacy, and disregard of other non-pharmaceutical interventions. Currently, vaccinations are the prominent way to protect against influenza, having been available on a large scale since 1945 ([13]). Current influenza vaccination rates in the US are not high enough to provide herd immunity ([14]), and have averted around 15-20% of influenza illnesses over the seasons from 2011-12 to 2018-19 5. While, vaccines have to be newly manufactured each season with significant R&D investments, the vaccines of course only have to be administered once while face masks would need to be worn continuously, which might be seen as more burdensome by the general population. [15] estimates the economic burden of seasonal influenza in the United States at $6.3 -$25.3 billion. Assuming the economic cost scales linearly with the number of infections, a scenario in which at least 95% of infections are reduced (which includes both the ‘mask mandate’ and ‘masks suggested’ scenarios) saves $6.0 – $24.0 billion per season, at negligible cost. Similar to public opinion regarding potential health hazards such as smoking and driving without seatbelts shifting over time, and legislation being introduced, we can imagine the Coronavirus pandemic changing public (and expert) opinion towards everyday mask usage; then again, large parts of the population might be tired of wearing masks af...

      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/10.1101/2021.07.06.21259924
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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.21259924: (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: Inclusion criteria were as follows 1) positive PCR for COVID-19; 2) informed consent; 3) age > 18 years, and 4) agreement to practice two highly effective methods of birth control if of childbearing potential.</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">Regression was carried out in Prism version 8 (GraphPad Prism software for Windows, San Diego, California USA, www.graphpad.com) using least square regression without weighting or special handling of outliers.</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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All graphs were prepared by and statistical analysis done using GraphPad Prism version 8, and the error bar are indicative of the standard error of the mean (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: 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">NCT04482686</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">Trial of Combination Therapy to Treat COVID-19 Infection</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04334512</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">A Study of Quintuple Therapy to Treat COVID-19 Infection</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04949230</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">A Retrospective Study of COVID-19 Treatments</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/10.1101/2021.07.06.21260055
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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.21260055: (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 and simulations were performed in MATLAB R 2019a (Supplementary Information p11–13).</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Our study has several limitations. First, we simulated historical epidemics based on four Australian states but excluding Queensland, which experienced a significant outbreak in March–April 2020. That is because the state’s official reports did not include information on whether a diagnosed case is from a known or unknown source and hence cannot inform our model. Second, the rate of viral transmission may vary across countries due to differences in health care capacities and the extent of public health interventions. Our study uses Australia as a case study but intends to generalise this work to other settings in future investigations. Similarly, we did not consider environmental differences, which is likely to play a role and differ between states. Third, to the completion date of this study, reliable data on the transmissibility and mortality of the novel variants of SARS-CoV-2 and the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine against new variants are still under investigation. Our study was conducted with limited availability of these data. Finally, we did not differentiate between the nature of the new cases. Cases in the same household as a known case and those who were isolated at the time of their diagnosis will be different from cases that are not linked to known cases and who were not isolated at the time of their diagnosis. It was not possible to incorporate these qualitative differences in a quantitative model, but they clearly matter. In conclusion, our study quantifi...

      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/10.1101/2021.07.06.21259654
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    1. sciscore 10 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.21259654: (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: Ethics: Study documents, including the protocol, demographic and health information form, interview guide, screener, informed consent form, and SE-C19, received ethical approval from the New England Independent Review Board (study number: 1291666) prior to any contact with patients.<br>IRB: Ethics: Study documents, including the protocol, demographic and health information form, interview guide, screener, informed consent form, and SE-C19, received ethical approval from the New England Independent Review Board (study number: 1291666) prior to any contact with 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></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">Transcripts were coded in ATLAS.ti software22 using an open, inductive coding approach.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ATLAS.ti</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:
      The current study has a few limitations. Some outpatients were no longer experiencing symptoms at the time of the interviews, as they were completed an average of 12 days after their positive diagnosis. However, outpatients had vivid memories of their past symptoms and were able to provide detailed feedback for the SE-C19. Due to the small sample size of the current study, further research should be conducted to confirm the validity and reliability of all the SE-C19 questions, using classical and modern test theory to support the scoring of the measure and define responders. This will also provide evidence for the minor adjustments suggested based on the current sample’s feedback. Upon completion of further analyses, this provides a valid, evidence-based PRO assessment of COVID-19 that can be considered for future use by patients and healthcare professionals. While the current study focused on outpatients in the acute phase of COVID-19, additional research could further explore the symptom trajectory and impact on daily lives in long-term COVID.26 In this context, the SE-C19 could be a useful tool to better understand persistent symptoms.

      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">NCT04425629</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">Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Anti-Spike (S) SARS-Co…</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.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259760: (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">Real-Time PCR assay and on the other, GeneFinder Covid-19 Plus RealAmp Kit, according to manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GeneFinder</div><div>suggested: (GENEFINDER, RRID:SCR_009190)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used MinION sequencing platforms (Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., Oxford, UK) as described in detail elsewhere [21] SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome consensus sequences: Whole-genome consensus sequences obtained from ONT were generated using an adaptation of the nCoV-2019 novel coronavirus Artic bioinformatics protocol (https://artic.network/ncov-2019/ncov2019-bioinformatics-sop.html) as in [11] and adjustments made by Ferrés in https://github.com/iferres/ncov2019-artic-nf.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MinION</div><div>suggested: (MinION, RRID:SCR_017985)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Alignment was performed with MAFFT v7.471 [26].</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">Maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis of final 238 B.1.1.28, P.1 and P.2 sequences was conducted using IQ-TREE version 1.6.12 under the GTR+F+I nucleotide substitution model selected by the built-in ModelFinder option [23].</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">Phylogenetic trees were estimated in BEAST 1.10 [30] using the GTR+F+I, GTR+F and GTR+F+I nucleotide substitution models for clades UY-IP2, UY-I28, and UY-II28, respectively, the nonparametric Bayesian skyline model as the coalescent tree prior [31], a strict molecular clock model with a uniform substitution rate prior (8−10 × 10−4 substitutions/site/year) and a reversible discrete phylogeographic model [32] with a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) rate reference prior [33].</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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MCMC chains were run for 50 million generations and convergence (Effective Sample Size > 200) in parameter estimates was assessed using TRACER v1.7 [34].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TRACER</div><div>suggested: (Tracer, RRID:SCR_019121)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Maximum clade credibility (MCC) trees were summarized with TreeAnnotator v1.10 [35] and visualized using FigTree v1.4.4 (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TreeAnnotator</div><div>suggested: (BEAST2, RRID:SCR_017307)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FigTree</div><div>suggested: (FigTree, RRID:SCR_008515)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Additional visualizations were implemented in the R environment with treeio and ggtree Bioconductor packages [36].</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">We also determined the mobility index of each period as calculated in https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/27166 based on Google data, and the effective reproductive number (Re) for Rocha (7 day roll-up average) as calculated by the EpiEstim model [37].</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></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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.07.06.21260038: (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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259918: (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: 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">NCT04436276</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 Ad26.COV2.S in Adults (COVID-19)</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259989: (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: UMD-CTIS Survey: This research is based on survey results from UMD-CTIS, approved by the UMD Institutional Review Board (IRB, 1587016-10) and described previously(19).<br>Consent: After obtaining consent in Facebook, users were pushed to the Qualtrics platform utilizing a token system.</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 input features were self-reported age-gender categories (using self-reported age 18-54 versus ≥ 55 years, gender male versus female) and responses to 12 symptoms queried in versions 1-6.</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">Qualtrics implemented standard survey administration methods (e.g. response randomization).</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">Clustering for visualization used benchmark data (using row clustering method=”complete” in Heatmap from ComplexHeatmap 2.3.4, R 3.6.3 https://www.R-project.org/).</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">Four base modeling methods (Logistic Regression, Gaussian Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine, and Light Gradient Boosting Machine) were compared before determining that Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM, lightgbm in Python 3.8 with Shapley values visualization package for predictor visualization) was the highest performing at a moderate time cost, and is presented throughout.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Despite acknowledged possible limitations, the potential value of the UMD-CTIS is substantial. Compared to the Gallup World Poll, the largest global survey using established methodology, the UMD-CTIS survey is conducted on a daily (not annual) basis, and using a social-media based instrument instead of telephone and in-person interviews(38). Gallup World Poll interviews about 1000 subjects per country per year, while the UMD-CTIS sampled five to ten times that per country per week with a fraction of the in-country infrastructure and human resources(39). The great majority of the cost and logistical resources of the survey and deployment are borne by Facebook and the UMD Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). The purpose of the UMD-CTIS is not to provide exact and unbiased on-time point estimates, but to allow for the analysis of time trends and small area estimation. With this, UMD-CTIS is the largest ongoing real-time, remote, global health survey ever conducted. Importantly, the survey serves many countries that have been relatively under-represented in COVID-19 biomedical literature to date. The other covariates in UMD-CTIS provide a valuable window into impacts on populations that may be underrepresented in the COVID-19 biomedical literature. We highlight in this study only a handful of these, including population-level concern about COVID-19-related illness, in relation to temporal changes in self-reported mitigation strategies. Each country experienced COVID-19 dif...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259786: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Strengths and Limitations: Our analysis provides a comprehensive picture of excess years of life lost during the first 42 weeks of pandemic, including major causes both related and unrelated to COVID-19 infection. This enabled us to estimate the total impact of the pandemic on years of life lost, including regional and area-level socioeconomic patterns. There are some limitations to our study. For deaths not referred for investigation and adjudication by a coroner, data on cause of death rely on accurate diagnosis and recording by clinicians. During a pandemic, assessing the contribution of COVID-19 to some deaths can be challenging.21 We defined COVID-19 deaths as those for which the underlying cause was attributed to the virus on the death certificate. Inevitably, there will have been some misclassification, particularly in the early part of the pandemic when COVID-19 testing was not widespread and doctors’ awareness may have been more limited.22,23 This is also problematic for estimating years of life lost by deaths caused indirectly by the pandemic, so in addition to excluding COVID-19 deaths from the total excess deaths, we also excluded other respiratory causes of death (the most likely source of ‘missed’ COVID-19 diagnoses). Furthermore, this approach enabled us to apply data from earlier years to create a reference ‘baseline’, in the absence of COVID-19 deaths occurring before 2020. Consequently, our estimates of excess years of life lost that occurred as an indirect ...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.03.21259616: (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 code and data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      The strengths and limitations of this survey must be considered when interpreting its findings. The data represent a candid account from junior doctors affected by this year’s ST3 recruitment process and the survey was rapidly disseminated with minimal delay after the recruitment process ended, thus minimising recall bias. We obtained responses from across the UK, thus allowing for generalisability of our findings between regions. However, due to the need for rapid analysis we relied on algorithmically-assisted sentiment analysis to screen free-text responses for themes and topics, and while the method of sentiment analysis adopted provided a means of scoring responses according to a dictionary of words with ascribed polarities, this approach did result in text passages that still appeared generally negative to the human eye despite being scored positively by the algorithm. This survey has clearly highlighted perceived issues in the ST3 recruitment process 2021 that needs to be further addressed in order to guide future workforce planning and the delivery of training. Ideally, the highlighted discontent and frustration felt by some trainees will help relevant stakeholders better understand what would be of benefit going forward. Regardless of the decision an individual trainee has taken in light of the recruitment process, it is imperative that they are fully supported locally, regionally and nationally. Trainees have raised a lack of clear access to information regarding com...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259923: (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">2.1 Employed sequencing data and generation of consensus genome sequences: SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data from 316 samples was downloaded from the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) [42].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sequence Read Archive</div><div>suggested: (DDBJ Sequence Read Archive, RRID:SCR_001370)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, the re-paired paired-end reads were trimmed using Trimmomatic v0.38 [45] setting the following options: ‘LEADING:10’, ‘TRAILING:10’ ‘SLIDINGWINDOW:4:20’, and ‘MINLEN:40’.</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">Trimmed reads were aligned to their respective reference genomes using Bowtie2 v2.3.4.3 [46] using default parameters.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bowtie2</div><div>suggested: (Bowtie 2, RRID:SCR_016368)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The resulting SAM files were converted to BAM files using Samtools view v1.9 [47] and sorted and indexed using the default settings of respectively Samtools sort and Samtools index v1.9 [47].</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">Python 3.6.9 was used with the packages pysam 0.16.0.1 [54] and numpy 1.19.5 [55].</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>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">Next, reads were sorted using Picard SortSam v2.18.14 (https://github.com/broadinstitute/picard) with the option “SORT_ORDER=coordinate” and Picard CreateSequenceDictionary v2.18.14 [56] was used to generate a dictionary of the reference FASTA file.</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">The resulting BAM files were indexed using Samtools index v1.9 and used as input for GATK RealignerTargetCreator 3.7 [57], which was followed by indel realignment using GATK IndelRealigner v3.7 [57].</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">Additionally, the workflow is also available at the public Galaxy instance of our institute at https://galaxy.sciensano.be as a free resource for academic and non-profit usage.</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">Samples in BAM format were then converted back to FASTQ format using bedtools bamtofastq v2.27.1 [60].</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">Finally the LFV detection workflow (Figure 1: Step 3) described in section 2.2 was used on these 10 samples for all 364 conditions using the FASTA file of the wild-type sample as reference with LoFreq.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>LoFreq</div><div>suggested: (LoFreq, RRID:SCR_013054)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.2.2 Dataset 2: Introduction of mutations of interest by mixing wild-type and mutant raw sequencing read datasets: For the second dataset (Figure 1: Step 5), the coverage of all 20 samples (Table 2) was normalized to 5000X using BBMap v38.89 bbnorm.sh [43] with the options “target=5000”, “mindepth=5”, “fixspikes=f”, “passes=3”, “uselowerdepth=t”.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BBMap</div><div>suggested: (BBmap, RRID:SCR_016965)</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.21258881: (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 health-related data was retrieved from the hospital registry after consent of the participant.</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 statistical analysis was done using software IBM SPSS version 25 (IBM, Armonk, NY, 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: 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 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259939: (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: Ethical approval was obtained for this study to be carried out through the NHS Lothian BioResource (SR1407) and London-Brent Research Ethics Committee (REC ref: 20/HRA/3764 IRAS:28653).<br>Consent: All recruits gave written and informed consent for serial blood sample 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">The mean age of the participants was 44.5 years (21 – 65 y), with 72 female (71% of cohort) participants.</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">Serological assays: The Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG (NHS Lothian) and SARS-CoV-2 IgGII (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) assays are two-step chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassays (CMIA) designed to detect IgG antibodies against nucleoprotein and RBD respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 IgGII</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, DiaSorin LIASON trimericS IgG (NHS Highland) and Siemens sCOVG RBD IgG (NHS Tayside) assays are also two-step CMIA designed to detect IgG antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DiaSorin LIASON trimericS IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>detect 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">Briefly, 293Tcells were transfected with pNL4-3ΔEnv-nanoluc and pSARS-CoV-2-SΔ19.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293Tcells</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 subsequently added to 293TAce2 cl22 cells (for analyses using SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan-Hu-1 pseudovirus) or HT1080Ace2 cl14 cells (for analyses involving variant pseudovirus panels and respective Wuhan-Hu-1 R683G controls).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HT1080Ace2 cl14</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, 293Tcells were transfected with pNL4-3ΔEnv-nanoluc and pSARS-CoV-2-SΔ19.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pNL4-3ΔEnv-nanoluc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pSARS-CoV-2-SΔ19</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 half-maximal neutralization titers for sera (NT50) were determined using four-parameter nonlinear regression (least squares regression method without weighting; constraints: top=1, bottom=0) (GraphPad Prism).</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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259934: (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">Statistical analyses were computed using SPSS (version 24).</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 comes with certain limitations. First, the samples are retrospective and consist of 375 cases with 201 (53.6%) who survived and 174 (46.4%) who died. While the small sample size limits generalisation, it does provide a direction for further analysis when larger data sets become available. Second, a more comprehensive analysis is needed to establish the stability of the algorithm. Our method may have reduced the instability, but we do need further evidence in support. Third, the data distribution with respect to mortality would affect the performance of the algorithm which requires further validation that takes hospital context into consideration (Wang et al., 2020).

      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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259902: (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">Search strategy: The literature search was performed in August 2020 using the databases PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library and Web of Science, from their respective inception dates.</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 following search terms were used: (Neuro* OR Nervous OR Psychiatry* OR Mental) AND (COVID OR Corona*) The search strategies incorporated both medical subject headings (MeSH) and free-text terms, which were adapted according to the database searched.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MeSH</div><div>suggested: (MeSH, RRID:SCR_004750)</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 10.1101/2021.07.05.451199: (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: 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, Jurkat cells were lysed with 50 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) containing the Roche Complete Mini protease inhibitor cocktail and then homogenized on ice with a microprobe sonicator until the turbid mixture turned nearly clear with no visible cells left.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Jurkat</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">Protein network analysis: Protein-protein interactions were analyzed by STRING [26].</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">Pathways and processes enrichment were analyzed with Metascape [27], which utilizes various ontology sources such as KEGG Pathway, GO Biological Process, Reactome Gene Sets,</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GO Biological</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Autoantigen literature text mining: Every DS-affinity protein identified in this study was searched for specific autoantibodies reported in the PubMed literature.</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">Search keywords included the MeSH keyword “autoantibodies”, the protein name or its gene symbol, or alternative names and symbols.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MeSH</div><div>suggested: (MeSH, RRID:SCR_004750)</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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      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.451329: (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 have utilized Charmm36m forcefield in Gromacs v5 on high performance cluster (HPC) of IIT Mandi, where simulation setup was built by placing the protein structure (NSP6 91-112 and NSP6-CTR) in a cubic box with a distance of 10Å from each edge along with SPC water model and 0.15M NaCl salt concentration.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gromacs</div><div>suggested: (GROMACS, RRID:SCR_014565)</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">Field Sample Permit: The metadata included collection date, location, origin of samples, passage history, and sequencing technology.</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">Libraries were loaded on a MinION device and flow cell.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MinION</div><div>suggested: (MinION, RRID:SCR_017985)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ONT’s MinKNOW software was used to run sequencing.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MinKNOW</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Rampart software was applied to monitor coverage of each barcoded sample in real-time by running fast base-calling.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Rampart</div><div>suggested: (Rampart, RRID:SCR_016742)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Up to 1 June 2021, there were 1830 sequences that were aligned and the 5’ and 3’ ends trimmed using MAFFT v.</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">The tree was then visualized and annotated with FigTree where the nodes were ordered and rooted [75].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FigTree</div><div>suggested: (FigTree, RRID:SCR_008515)</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 10.1101/2021.07.06.451340: (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">Manual quantification of N+ cells were performed by distributing 10-15 images of iPSC-airway infected with SARS-CoV-2 stained with DAPI and N (>200 cells/image) to 5 blinded scorers.</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>

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      <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 antibodies used were; anti-SARS-CoV nucleoprotein (N) antibody (rabbit polyclonal, 1:2500, Rockland Immunochemicals, Cat #200-401-A50), anti-α-TUBULIN antibody (mouse monoclonal, 1:500 sigma cat# T6199), and anti-MUC5B antibody (mouse monoclonal, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, 1:500</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV nucleoprotein ( N )</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-α-TUBULIN</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# T6199, RRID:AB_477583)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-MUC5B</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, cells were washed with PBS three times (5 minutes, room temperature), and incubated with secondary antibody (AlexaFluor 546 AffiniPure Donkey Anti-mouse IgG (H+L), 1:500, and AlexFluor 647 donkey anti-mouse IgG (H+L) 1:500, Jackson ImmunoResearch) for 2 hours at room temperature.</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">To determine cellular tropism, Z-stack images of the infected transwells stained with either anti-SARS-CoV-2 N and α antibodies or anti-SARS-CoV-2 N and anti-mucin 5B antibodies were taken on Nikon Eclipse NiE.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 N and α</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-mucin 5B</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-MUC5AC (Abcam cat# ab198254) was applied and visualized with anti-rabbit NP (Roche) and anti-NP-AP (Roche) and detected with Discovery Yellow (Roche); counter stained with hematoxylin, rinsed with detergent, dehydrated, and cover-slipped with permanent mounting media.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-MUC5AC</div><div>suggested: (LSBio (LifeSpan Cat# LS-B1927-50, RRID:AB_1128083)</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 propagation and titration: SARS-CoV-2 stocks (isolate USA_WA1/2020, kindly provided by CDC’s Principal Investigator Natalie Thornburg and the World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA)) were grown in Vero E6 cells (ATCC CRL-1586) cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 2% fetal calf serum (FCS), penicillin (50 U/mL), and streptomycin (50 mg/mL) and titrated as described previously38.</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">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">Custom configured targets include: CCL2/JE/MCP-1, CXCL-9/MIG, CXCL10/IP-10/CRG-2, GM-CSF, IFNβ, IL-6, TNFα, TRAIL/TNFSF10</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CCL2/JE/MCP-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">Each image analyzed using ImageJ and DAPI+ nuclei and N+ cells were quantified with the multi-point tool.</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">Mean fluorescence intensity was measured to calculate final concentration in pg/mL using Bioplex200 and Bioplex Manager 5 software (Biorad).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bioplex200</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">The quality of the raw data was assessed using FastQC v.0.11.774.</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">The sequence reads were aligned to a combination of the human genome reference (GRCh38) and the SARS-CoV-2 reference (NC_045512) using STAR v.</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">Counts per gene were summarized using the featureCounts function from the subread package v.1.6.276.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>subread</div><div>suggested: (Subread, RRID:SCR_009803)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The edgeR package v.</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">The limma package v.</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">Differentially expressed genes for each comparison were visualized using Glimma v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Glimma</div><div>suggested: (Glimma, RRID:SCR_017389)</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:
      This study is not without limitations. The iPSC-airway epithelium is transcriptionally similar to primary airway epithelium and can be used to functionally model diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF) in vitro40. However, iPSC-derived cells differentiated into many cell types of different organs tend to be more fetal or immature than their endogenous counterparts in adults65–67, and there may be differences including receptor expression and cell type distributions. Whether our model reflects a more fetal or pediatric response to SARS-CoV-2 will require further investigation. Another limitation of this model is that the epithelial response is studied in isolation, and the complex interplay between epithelial, immune, interstitial, and endothelial cells that leads to COVID-19 pneumonia is not captured in our model. However, the iPSC system offers a reductionist, physiologically relevant model system to study the intrinsic epithelial response and provides key insights into the initial stages of COVID-19. Furthermore, given the clinical spectrum of disease severity caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection there is pressing need to further understand the mechanisms that lead to serve disease. Numerous genes, variants and pathways are implicated in modulating the response to infection and require further investigation15, 16. This iPSC-based platform, coupled with gene-editing technology, opens up future directions to evaluate the mechanisms of the airway response to SARS-CoV-2 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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 34, 35 and 39. 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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      • 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">Genome assessment, variant identification and phylogenomic analysis: Genome consensus sequences from Bolivia were assessed and assigned to their respective PANGO lineages with Pangolin v3.1 version 2021-06-15.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pangolin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Nucleotide and aminoacid substitution models were evaluated by MEGA X (Kumar et al. 2018).</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></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">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">Lentiviruses pseudotyped by Wuhan D614G (Cat# RVP-702L) and B.1.351 (Cat# RVP-707L) spikes were purchased from Integral Molecular, Philadelphia, PA. Antibodies: LY-CoV555 (bamlanivimab), LY-CoV016 (etesevimab), AZD1061 (cilgavimab), AZD8895 (tixagevimab), VIR-7831 (sotrovimab), CT-P59 (regdanvimab), REGN10987 (imdevimab), and REGN10933 (casirivimab) were expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and purified by Protein A affinity chromatography.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>B.1.351</div><div>suggested: (LSBio (LifeSpan Cat# LS-B1351-50, RRID:AB_1015723)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>LY-CoV555</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REGN10933</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The B13 and O24 mouse variable (V) regions were expressed as human chimeric antibodies combining the human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) and kappa chain constant regions (Supplemental Figure S1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG1</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">Cells and viruses: Vero E6 cells (ATCC) were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 2 mM penicillin-streptomycin (100 U/mL).</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">293T-hsACE2 cells (Cat# C-HA102) were purchased from Integral Molecular and cultured according to manufacturer’s recommendations.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-hsACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lentiviruses pseudotyped by Wuhan D614G (Cat# RVP-702L) and B.1.351 (Cat# RVP-707L) spikes were purchased from Integral Molecular, Philadelphia, PA. Antibodies: LY-CoV555 (bamlanivimab), LY-CoV016 (etesevimab), AZD1061 (cilgavimab), AZD8895 (tixagevimab), VIR-7831 (sotrovimab), CT-P59 (regdanvimab), REGN10987 (imdevimab), and REGN10933 (casirivimab) were expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and purified by Protein A affinity chromatography.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Production of proteins was carried out by transient expression in CHO-K1 cells adapted to serum-free suspension culture (TunaCHO™, LakePharma Inc., Belmont, CA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO-K1</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 603480/p693_CHO-K1, RRID:CVCL_0214)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Suspension CHO cells were seeded in a shake flask and expanded using a serum-free and chemically defined medium.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 603479/p746_CHO, RRID:CVCL_0213)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus was pre-incubated for 1 hour at 37 °C with serial dilutions of antibody and then plated in replicates of 8 on Vero/TMPRSS2 cells.</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">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 brief, SARS-CoV-1 spike protein (UniProtKB Accession No. P59594) containing an engineered carboxyl-terminal T4 fibritin trimerization domain was expressed using the TunaCHO™ platform (LakePharma) and used to coat wells in a 384-well plate (1 μg/mL in PBS) overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UniProtKB</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">These data were processed by Prism 9 (GraphPad) to fit a 4PL curve and calculate the log EC50.</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.
      • 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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      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.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259898: (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 independent ethics committee of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute<br>Consent: (IDIBELL) approved the study protocol and waived the need for informed consent, as the data were generated as part of routine clinical care and fully de-identified for analytic 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">The independent ethics committee of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute</div><div>suggested: (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, RRID:SCR_003917)</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:
      Study Limitations: One of the limitations of Queralt DxS is the lack validation in settings other than Catalonia, however, we hope that making the software publicly available for research purposes will facilitate external validation moving forward. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that the weights used to estimate the relative contribution of each diagnostic group to health risk were calculated using data collected during years 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, although the source population of the 8 relevant hospitals has remained unchanged since then, the sample of patients admitted with COVID-19 included in this study and their clinical and sociodemographic profile do differ from those used when developing the Queralt Indices, including Queralt DxS. Therefore, the current analysis may be interpreted as a pseudo-validation of Queralt DxS in a Catalan subpopulation hospitalized with COVID-19. Also, as often occurs in retrospective analyses, our dataset was limited to the data recorded in electronic records during routine care. Nonetheless, the universal coverage of our healthcare system, and the cross-linking of healthcare data from the primary care and specialized settings allowed us to access various sources and very comprehensive health data from our study population and consider all possible diagnostics present on admission, as well as basic demographic data such as age and sex. Conversely, we were not able to include some pre-admission variables such a...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259819: (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: All data were aggregate and most from publicly available sources supplemented with national surveillance data, so approvals from neither scientific ethics committees nor Data Authorities were necessary as per Danish law and regulations.</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 sources: Numbers of laboratory confirmed C. trachomatis infections were obtained via extracts from MiBa via the webportal at Statens Serum Institut.10 11 The monthly number of C.trachomatis laboratory tests performed since January 2018 were obtained from national surveillance data extracted from MiBa12.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Numbers</div><div>suggested: (BioNumbers, RRID:SCR_002782)</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 lack of relation between limitations in mobility and social interaction and chlamydia incidence may be a result of the extent to which dating apps were used, particularly important among young adults.21 28 In conclusion, the first Danish lockdown period was associated with a decrease in testing and a subsequent reduced incidence of laboratory confirmed chlamydia. This was not seen in the second lockdown period and the intervening period of eased restrictions. Thus, the period of COVID-19 restrictions, with its significant effects on behaviour, was not associated with appreciable changes in chlamydia transmission.

      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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259857: (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">Microsoft Excel, the R software (version 4.0.2) and Python (version 3.7.7) were used to perform the data analyses.</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>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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Strengths and limitations: To our knowledge, this is the largest analysis on individual-level pediatric COVID-19 cases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Data were presented at three levels: national, regional and in Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. However, due to constraints on completeness and quality of available data, we could only include data of 15 countries. The cumulative incidence rates differed significantly between countries ranging from 0.2 in Chad to 94.2 in Eswatini. The large differences may partly be explained by differential underreporting of cases and different testing criteria between countries. Nguimkeu et al. (2021), noted that underreporting may be explained by an insufficient diagnostic capacity in certain regions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Nguimkeu and Tadadjeu, 2021). Available data from our focus countries also reflected only few deaths among children, if any. COVID-19 responses in Sub-Saharan Africa have benefited from dynamic, comprehensive, and timely efforts from governments, often in collaboration with various partners. Inferences for health policy and governance: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in data management in health systems across the world. Experiences from the pandemic have evidenced the need for effective, efficient, responsible, and participatory governance to ensure children’s health data is used responsibly and not misused (Ienca and Vayena, 2020). Inferences from this research strengthen recent advocacy calls on the urgent need for sex-...

      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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259879: (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 at all the sites was approved by the respective local institutional ethical review boards.<br>Field Sample Permit: History of symptoms was collected from the subjects at the time of sample 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">The Genie® software automatically analyzed the individual sample test results as positive or negative based on the amplification plot and annealing temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Genie®</div><div>suggested: (GENIE, RRID:SCR_009197)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis was performed using IBM® SPSS software.</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:
      It demonstrates the limitations of EUAs which may not necessarily translate to acceptable clinical performance for all tests in all settings. A thorough clinical validation of diagnostic assays on a standardized panel of samples in clinical settings is advisable before its widespread adoption for clinical use. We do not fully understand the reason for the variation in test performance across study-sites. Importantly, the populations at each site was different with respect to SARS-CoV-2 prevalence, clinical symptoms, and other factors, but stratified analyses showed similar performance at all sites except for El Salvador. Given that invalid results were rare and did not differ across the study sites and there was no consistent pattern observed in ct-values for the internal control [mean ct-values for the internal control for NP: 28.4 (95% CI: 28.1-28.7) (El Salvador), 34.1 (95% CI: 32.8-35.1) (MCW), 22.7 (21.9-23.4) (Paraguay), 25.4 (23.4-27.3) (NJMS); for saliva: 19.4 (95% CI: 19.1-19.7), 23.6 (95% CI: 23.1-24.2) (MCW), 22.1 (21.3-22.8) (Paraguay)], we do not attribute the lower sensitivity in our validation in El Salvador to sampling variation. Rather we hypothesize the lower sensitivity of the Atila iAMP test in El Salvador to be related to multiple factors: relatively higher proportion of asymptomatic subjects as compared to Paraguay (69.8% versus 21.9%) and operator-dependent nature of the assay due to the hands-on nature of the test to set up the reaction (27). However, ...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259884: (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: Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria: Healthcare workers working at MMTH were conveniently selected for the study and HCWs who refused to give informed written consent (n=16) were excluded from 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">Antibody screening was performed from the serum using SARS-CoV-2 IgM/IgG Antibody Assay Kit (Colloidal Gold Method) (Zybio Inc., China) as per the manufacturer’s instructions (5µl serum was added to the sample well using a pipette followed by the addition of 2 drops of buffer), and the results were read within 10-15 minutes and the results after 15 minutes were considered invalid.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 IgM/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: Data were collected in Microsoft Excel 2013 and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA).</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      This Study had some limitations.This study was time-framed, single center study with a relative small size population. It could have been better if we could use ELISA or CLIA for antibody testing.

      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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259132: (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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259428: (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">Medline).</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">For relative scattering analysis, the green channel of video files was analyzed over time using MATLAB code.</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">The percent of the mannequin head’s surface coated in dye underneath the face mask was determined using image analysis in ImageJ 1.53E (National Institute of Health)</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.
      • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259330: (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 aspects: The study was submitted and approved by Ethics Committee of Faculty of Medicine (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and Prontobaby Group, under number 4.100.232 dated from June 20, 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">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 source and statistical analysis: The two periods were analysed regarding the following variables: Total number of admitted patients (with all diseases), total number of admitted patients with confirmed COVID-19, the main clinical symptoms present on admission and number of deaths A descriptive analysis was performed 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></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 some limitations. The first one is that our data showed pattern of admissions in two pediatric hospital of the city. But considering that both hospitals are the biggest institutions dedicated exclusively to the children care in the city, that data could reflect the true dynamics of SARS-COV-2 circulation in the city. The second limitation is possible influence of knowledge acquistion of pediatricians to treat COVID-19, during the first year of pandemic, resulting in fewer relative percentage of admitted children with COVID-19 in 2021. Despite this possibility could be not rulled out, until the current date, no drug was approved in Brazil to avoid or reduce pediatric COVID-19 admissions.

      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 10.1101/2021.07.03.21258887: (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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21260005: (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">Assuming the number of the PCR and WGS sample sizes, nk and mk, are known, the sequential sampling scheme can be formulated as a hierarchical model, in the following way:

      Notice that (4) and (5) are two and one dimensional hypergeometric distributions, respectively.</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: 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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.04.21259903: (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">The height (amplitude) of S is determined by the product AB, its time length is determined by the parameter τe and its skewness by the parameter τa.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AB</div><div>suggested: RRID:BDSC_203)</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 assays were performed on a CFX96 Touch™ Real-Time PCR Detection System (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA).</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></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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259811: (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">Matlab codes can be accessed at: https://github.com/zhaobinxu23/Mathematics_underpinning_the_dose_effect_of_virus_infection_and_its_application_on_covid-19_virulence_evolution</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: 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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.04.21259979: (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: 5,6 The institutional review board of the Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh, approved the study protocol (Ref. no: BRF/ERB/2020/003).</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 several limitations of our study. The sample size is small. All the data are retrospective and secondary with a possibility of under-reporting along with many incomplete 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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21260022: (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 participating parents gave informed consent to take part in the CoCoPIP online survey (tinyurl.com/CoCoPIP) (Aydin, Weiss, et al., 2021).<br>IRB: Ethics approval for the survey was given by the University of Cambridge, Psychology Research Ethics Committee (PREC) (PRE.2020.077).</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">Women who gave birth prior to the first national lockdown (23rd March 2020), were excluded from the final 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:
      Limitations: As data were collected between July 2020 – March 2021, participants experiences reflect a period of fluctuating COVID-related government and healthcare restrictions, from the most severe national lockdown measures to a combination of severe to mild national/local restrictions. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of the governmental guidance related to the pandemic and regional variations in between national lockdowns it, was not possible to collect equal sample sizes at each timepoint. Furthermore, as a result of the fact that this study was conducted as a voluntary online survey, we cannot confirm independently that all responses were by expectant parents or exclude bias in respondents with either positive or negative experience of giving birth. Whilst we advertised this study nationally and specifically worked with national childbirth trusts (NCTs) with an emphasis on areas of low socio-economic status (SES), the majority of participants were white; therefore, the results cannot be generalised to a more ethnically diverse population. Furthermore, while our sample was fairly representative of the UK’s population, there was an underrepresentation of Asian and South Asian parents. This study is part of an ongoing longitudinal study observing the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy, infant development and parental mental health and we hope we increase the diversity of our sample as recruitment continues. Another limitation is that, of the two questions posed, not every ...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.04.21259985: (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">The authors screened the title and abstract of independently for eligible studies based on the following criteria: (1) pregnant women; (2) adult (≥18 years) female study population; (3) the study involved Covid-19 vaccine of interest; (4) the study compared the intervention group with control (non-pregnant women, unvaccinated, or none); (5) eligible studies should have reported at least one of our outcomes of interest; (6) English language.</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">Eligibility criteria: We accepted any study (retrospective, prospective, cohort, randomized controlled trials (RCT), case series, case control, cross-sectional, crossover) to be included in the review.</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">Search strategy and selection of studies: The authors comprehensively conducted keyword searching of articles published in trial registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, the WHO Clinical Trial Registry, and the EU Clinical Trial Registry) and databases (MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Library, Proquest, and Springer) up until June 20, 2021.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane Library</div><div>suggested: (Cochrane Library, RRID:SCR_013000)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Proquest</div><div>suggested: (ProQuest, RRID:SCR_006093)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Manual search, including in BioRxiv and MedRxiv, and the bibliographical search were also conducted to obtain additional evidence.</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></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:
      Strength and limitation: To the best of our knowledge, this systematic review used the most recent evidence to describe the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in pregnancy. All studies included in this review were assessed as high quality studies. However, studies are all observational studies due to no RCTs reports of Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women yet currently available. These studies reported only from mRNA type vaccines. Moreover, all available studies that were included were only from the United States and Israel.

      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 10.1101/2021.07.05.21260021: (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: The questionnaire was filled anonymously, voluntarily, and with consent given by all respondents.<br>IRB: All procedures conducted in this study have been approved by the Health Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia and Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (ethical clearance number: 758/UN2.F1/ETIK/PPM.00.02/2020).</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">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">Subsequently, data were analyzed using SPSS 24.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) and visualized using R ver.</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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259851: (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 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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.03.21259881: (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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.21260017: (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 design was approved by the ethical committee of the University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection (#2021–001).</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">Design and sample: Between the 10th and the 23rd of May 2021, we conducted a cross-sectional online survey among a representative sample of the French population aged 18 and over, with participants who were randomly selected from an online research panel of more than 750,000 nationally representative households of the general population.</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, sample size is limited for the younger age groups, however the observations have been weighted for age, gender, professional categories, and living areas. Then, 2,244 respondents were aged 64 years or less and 812 were aged 65 or more. Older age and antecedents or intention to take up COVID-19 vaccination were great predictors of attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In addition, undecided respondents were not asked about their attitudes to a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for HCWs. As we observed that one third of the opponents to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the general population were in favor of specific mandates for HCWs, we cannot estimated the true proportion of the population in favor of a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for HCWs and identified factors associated with such an attitude. In conclusion, the opinions toward COVID-19 vaccine mandates are split in France during the vaccination campaign in May 2021. COVID-19 vaccine mandates will be a highly political issue, one year before the next French presidential election. However, if France hits the glass ceiling and fails to achieve herd immunity, a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy should be accompanied by educational efforts targeted at younger adults. If a fourth wave hits France in the Autumn and if a more comprehensive outreach program is not put in place by then, the dilemma might well be: what would be less unacceptable: mandatory vaccination, or new containment m...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259936: (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: Animals: All procedures were approved by the University of Mississippi Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (protocol #19-009) or the University of Mississippi Medical Center Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (protocol #1571).<br>Field Sample Permit: All animals for toxicology studies were housed in the AALAC-accredited University of Mississippi Animal Facility and given access to rodent chow (Cat.# 7001, Envigo Teklad 4% Fat Rodent Diet) and tap water ad libitum for the duration of the experiments.<br>Euthanasia Agents: Upon completion of the study, mice were anesthetized with vaporized isofluorane, perfused with phosphate buffer saline, and secondarily euthanized with decapitation.<br>IRB: Human Study Population: An Early Phase 1 interventional clinical trial (NCT04490239) in a small sample population was performed under the approval and guidance of the University of Mississippi Institutional Review Board (protocol #21-004).<br>Consent: All subjects submitted written informed consent prior to enrollment 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">Toxicology experiments were performed on wild-type male (19-23g) and female (16-19g) C57BL6 mice from Envigo (Indianapolis, IN) in study groups of six mice for each dose (three male, three female).</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 test day, the subject was placed in a test chamber containing 3 cm of fresh 1/8 in corncob bedding for a 15-minute trial, with the food stimulus buried approximately 1 cm below the bedding surface in a randomly assigned corner of the cage.</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">Platelets in each image were counted by a blinded observer.</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 study was powered to preserve an 80% chance of not committing a Type II error with a 5% chance of Type I error at significant effect sizes (weight as the variable: power > 0.8 to detect a 20% change in body weight within sex (n = 3), 10% change in body weight within entire group (n = 6); aPTT time: power > 0.8 to detect a 100% change in aPTT (n = 4); buried food recovery time: power > 0.8 to detect a 100% change in recovery time (n = 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: Signs of inflammation, bleeding, and/or nasal discharge were monitored twice daily by visual inspection of the nose, body, cage, and bedding.</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">Toxicology experiments were performed on wild-type male (19-23g) and female (16-19g) C57BL6 mice from Envigo (Indianapolis, IN) in study groups of six mice for each dose (three male, three female).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In vivo imaging experiments were performed on three female SKH1-Elite mice (Crl:SKH1-Hrhr Outbred: Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, MA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SKH1-Elite</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">One-phase and two-phase exponential decay modeling was carried out using GraphPad Prism 8.4.3 and hypothesis testing using an extra sum-of-squares F test was performed.</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">Data were analyzed using SPSS and SyStat SigmaPlot v13 software.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SyStat</div><div>suggested: (SyStat, RRID:SCR_010455)</div></div><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: 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">NCT04490239</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">Intranasal Heparin Tolerability Study</td></tr></table>

      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 18. 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 10.1101/2021.07.04.21259954: (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">Data sources and case definitions: The total population of Finland in 2019 was 5.5 million, 51% of which were 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

      <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">Persons that had any of the prescribed medications of interest not more than two years prior to testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 were identified based on the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) codes.</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></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 10.1101/2021.07.05.21259547: (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: This study was approved by the NYU Langone Health Institutional Review Board, protocol number i21-00493. cDNA synthesis, library preparation and sequencing: Total RNA (11 μl) was converted to first strand cDNA by random priming using the Superscript IV first-strand synthesis system (Invitrogen, ref# 180901050).</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">The control group consisted of full-genome sequenced SARS-CoV-2 positive cases in our health system who were randomly selected for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, had Ct ≤30, and were collected in the same time period as the breakthrough infections.</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">Sequenced read processing: Sequencing reads were demultiplexed using the Illumina bcl2fastq2 Conversion Software v2.20 and adapters and low-quality bases were trimmed with Trimmomatic v0.36 27.</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">BWA v0.7.17 28 was utilized for mapping reads to the SARS-CoV-2 reference genome (NC_045512.2, wuhCor1) and mapped reads were soft-clipped to remove SNAP tiled primer sequences using Primerclip v0.3.8 29.</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">Maximum likelihood IQ trees were performed using the IQ-TREE XSEDE tool, multicore version 2.1.2, on the Cipres Science gateway v.3.3 33. GTR+I+G was chosen as the best-fit substitution model.</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">Propensity-score matching was implemented using the nearest neighbor strategy using a 1:1 ratio without replacement, with the MatchIt algorithm in RStudio version 1.4.1106 39.</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">Libraries were prepared using Swift Normalase Amplicon Panel (SNAP) SARS-CoV-2 and Sar-Cov-2 additional Genome Coverage (Cat# SN-5×296 core kit, 96rxn), using 10 μl of first strand cDNA, following the manufacturer’s instruction: https://swiftbiosci.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PRT-028-Swift-Normalase-Amplicon-Panels-SNAP-SARS-CoV-2-Panels-Rev-9.pdf).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SNAP</div><div>suggested: (SNAP, RRID:SCR_007936)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The BWA-MEM algorithm of the alignment program, BWA v0.7.17 (Li and Durbin 2009), was utilized for mapping reads of each sample to the SARS-CoV-2 reference genome (NC_045512.2, wuhCor1) with the ‘-M’ flag for marking shorter split hits as secondary and the parameter ‘-U’ set to a 17 alignment score penalty for an unpaired read pair.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><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">Name-sorted mapped reads in SAM alignment format were soft-clipped to remove primer sequences specific to the short overlapping (tiled) amplicon design of the Swift Normalase Amplicon SARS-CoV-2 Panel using Primerclip v0.3.8 (Swift Biosciences: https://github.com/swiftbiosciences/primerclip), and the Picard v2.18.20 “AddOrReplaceReadGroups” tool (Broad Institute: http://broadinstitute.github.io/picard/) was used in converting the primer-trimmed SAM files to coordinate-sorted and indexed BAM format with read-groups added for downstream analysis.</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">The variant caller, BCFtools v1.9 (Li et al. 2009), was utilized to detect genetic mutations of the collected viral samples from BAM input: bcftools mpileup -r NC_045512.2 --count-orphans --no-BAQ --max-depth 50000 --max-idepth 500000 –annotate FORMAT/AD,FORMAT/ADF,FORMAT/ADR,FORMAT/DP,FORMAT/SP,INFO/AD,INFO/ADF,INFO/A DR --output-type v | bcftools call --ploidy 1 --keep-alts --multiallelic-caller --output-type v | bcftools norm --multiallelics -any --output-type v | bcftools filter -i “(DP4[0]+DP4[1])<(DP4[2]+DP4[3]) && ((DP4[2]+DP4[3])>0) & FORMAT/AD[0:1]>20” --output-type v | bcftools filter -e “IMF<0.5” --output-type v To generate viral sequences, the output in VCF format was applied to the reference sequence using ‘bcftools consensus’ while the BEDTools v2.30.0 utilities (Quinlan and Hall 2010), “genomecov” (with the ‘-bga’ option to report depth at each base including zero coverage sites), “merge” (for creating a BED file of low depth sites with <1000x coverage to be masked), and “maskfasta” in conjunction with the multiple sequence alignment program, MAFFT v4.471 (Katoh et al. 2002) in ‘--auto’ mode, were used in the production of final consensus sequences with all bases below 1000x coverage masked and both non-targeted ends of the sequences trimmed.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BCFtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMtools/BCFtools, RRID:SCR_005227)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BEDTools</div><div>suggested: (BEDTools, RRID:SCR_006646)</div></div><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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Compared to the large number of SARS-CoV-2 infections among unvaccinated individuals, the recorded breakthrough cases between February and April 2021 (n=67) remained at∼1% of total infections, with the caveat that both breakthrough cases as well as unvaccinated controls were not exhaustively screened and covered. Despite the overall effectiveness of vaccination, our full spike mutation analysis revealed a broad set of spike mutations (n=21) to be elevated in the vaccine breakthrough group. It indicates that adaptive selection is in progress that may subsequently come into full effect. At this point, the breakthrough cases and differences in mutation rates between case and control groups are still too low to draw meaningful conclusions. However, the overrepresentation of functionally important spike mutations including NTD deletions ΔH69-V70 and ΔY144 together with RBD mutations K417X, S477X, E484X, and N501X as well as P681X (near the S1/S2 interface) in the absence of a clear elevation of VOCs or VOIs may indicate a starting sieve effect at individual or combinations of functional mutations. Spike mutations and deletions reported to confer neutralization escape in vitro23, 43, 44 might thus be responsible for a sieve effect in a real-life situation, i.e., among vaccinated individuals. During the time of our sample and data collection, there were two major variants arising in the New York City metro area constituting about two thirds of all cases, B.1.1.7, which was first rep...

      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.

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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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.04.21259848: (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 trial protocol was approved by the local ethics committee of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland (ID 2021-00669) and was registered on clinicaltrials.gov (Identifier: NCT04877496).<br>Consent: The trial was performed in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and all participants provided written informed consent prior to inclusion.</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">Individuals younger than 18 years of age and pregnant or lactating women were not eligible to participate.</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">All study participants were tested for the presence of anti-nucleocapsid antibodies.</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">Creatinine values, lymphocyte subpopulation counts, and total immunoglobulin quantities (IgG, IgM, IgA) were obtained using the routine clinical analytical services of the Center of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Chemistry of University Hospital Bern. anti-SARS-CoV2 S1-IgG and NC-IgG responses to vaccines: To assess humoral responses to vaccines, IgG antibodies targeting the SARS-CoV2 S1 protein, were detected using a commercial ELISA test from Euroimmun AG, Lübeck, Germany, as previously described 23.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>total immunoglobulin quantities (IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S1-IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV2 S1 protein,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After three washing steps, 100μl of HRP-labelled secondary anti-human IgG antibodies was added for 30 minutes at 37°C, followed by three more washing steps.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      The present study has limitations. First, we could not measure anti-SARS-CoV2 spike protein antibodies before vaccination, because the Swiss vaccination program accelerated in high-risk individuals before recruitment was initiated. Therefore, we measured currently circulating anti-SARS-CoV2 nucleocapsid antibodies and excluded the three participants with detectable anti-nucleocapsid antibodies. Second, the distribution of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna was not identical between controls and patients. Comirnaty® was the earliest approved vaccine in Switzerland that was made primarily available for individuals at high risk for severe COVID19. By the time when health care professionals and the general population became eligible for SARS-COV2 vaccination, Moderna® constituted the largest share of vaccines delivered to Switzerland. Finally, the current study population was highly heterogeneous regarding the underlying diseases, indications for CD20 depletion treatment, and immunosuppressive co-medication. However, this complex study population represents a real-world scenario and provided a unique opportunity to explore routine laboratory parameters that are readily available and could be used to predict vaccination efficacy and therefore guide vaccination timing despite the complexity of the various immunosuppressive regimens. Based on the current data, we propose that a simple peripheral count of CD4+ cells could serve as a starting point to stratify patien...

      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">NCT04877496</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">Responses to COVID19 Vaccination in Patients With a Treatmen…</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

      <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 visitors were over 18 years old, including patients and family, were approached prior to entering the clinics for consent to a brief survey and a COVID-19 antibody test through a fingerstick.</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 attempted to contact by phone 140 people selected at random from the original May 2020 cohort.</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">Results were communicated to participants, and clinical guidance, including the need to self-isolate and to seek medical care if symptoms worsen, were provided for those testing positive for active infection as determined by the presence of IgM antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgM</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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      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:
      Strengths and limitations: This study offers novel and in-depth insights into how parents with a pre-school child managed their children’s emotional wellbeing in response to COVID-19 restrictions. It complements quantitative surveys (Dodd et al., 2020; Public Health Scotland, 2020) by providing in-depth understanding of the stresses parents and their children face. These findings will be important for improving the support provided to families during future restrictions and informing plans for longer-term recovery (Hefferon et al., 2020). We note however that we only include the perspectives of parents, rather than the children themselves. Using a nurturing lens helped to develop the themes identified at an earlier analysis stage and provided interpretative insight into early child development. The results indicated that parents were engaging in positive parenting practices that could be described as responsive and nurturing. We acknowledge, however, that parents who were struggling to care for their children during COVID-19 restrictions might be less likely to participate in a study such as this, or to disclose less optimal parenting strategies in the interview context. The study had strong representation of families living in areas of high deprivation and of different ethnicities, providing the opportunity to ensure multiple perspectives were considered. Nevertheless, the sample was highly educated, and may not reflect the experiences of parents with lower levels of educati...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259757: (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: Eligible patients were adults aged ≥18 years who survived acute COVID-19 infection and fluent in German, English, French, or Italian and able to provide informed consent.<br>IRB: The study protocol was approved by the responsible ethics committee of the Canton of Basel (EKNZ, ethics approval #2020-01311).</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">Out of 2858 patients, 52 patients (8 women and 44 men) died during or after treatment for COVID-19, 7 did not meet inclusion criteria.</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:
      Also, many previous reports have several limitations, including lack of an agreed-upon case definition and potential bias, as most reports excluded either outpatients or hospitalized patients. Re-hospitalisation due to persistent symptoms or complication of COVID-19 has been reported to occur in 9% to 20% of patients.17,18 The observed readmission rate of 5.5% in our study is lower than these estimates. Although we did not analyse the most common reasons for readmission, the lower re-hospitalization rate in our study likely reflects the lower acuity of illness in our cohort relating to differences in age and disease severity between study populations. Further research is needed to assess the extent to which improvements in the management of post-COVID-19 syndrome might reduce readmission rates. In our study, reduced exercise tolerance and/or resilience was the most commonly reported symptom occurring in 41% of women and 43% of men with post-COVID-19 syndrome. While differences in study populations and outcome measurement are likely to affect the comparability of studies on post-COVID-19 syndrome, a relatively high prevalence of chronic fatigue, dyspnoea or exercise intolerance, and psychological symptoms have consistently been noted across studies.19,20 In particular, neuropsychiatric symptoms including depression and anxiety, cognitive impairment, headache or olfactory dysfunction seem to persist in a substantial number of patients (32% of individuals in our study) which is ...

      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.
      • 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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      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: Animal experiments: All the animal experiments were performed in accordance with protocols approved by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).</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">Mouse immunization and challenge studies: Female BALB/c mice were used in all studies.</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 sections were evaluated by a veterinary pathologist who was blinded to the vaccination groups in the Comparative Pathology Laboratory (CPL) at ISMMS.</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">An HRP-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgA secondary antibody (PA1-74397 Invitrogen) was used at 1: 2000 dilution.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgA</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# PA1-74397, RRID:AB_10985723)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The plaques were immuno-stained with an anti-SARS-CoV-2 NP primary mouse monoclonal antibody 1C7C7 kindly provided by Dr. Thomas Moran at ISMMS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 NP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">An HRP-conjugated goat anti-mouse secondary antibody was used at 1:2000 and the plaques were visualized using TrueBlue™ Peroxidase Substrate (SeraCare Life Sciences Inc.).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse</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">Viral titers in the lung homogenates were measured by plaque assay on Vero E6 cells.</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">Mouse immunization and challenge studies: Female BALB/c mice were used in all studies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BALB/c</div><div>suggested: RRID:IMSR_ORNL:BALB/cRl)</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">The sequence of the HXP-S was inserted into pNDV_LS/L289A rescue plasmid (between P and M genes) by in-Fusion cloning (Clontech).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pNDV_LS/L289A</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The recombination product was transformed into MAX Efficiency™ Stbl2™ Competent Cells (Thermo Fisher Scientific) to generate the pNDV-HXP-S rescue plasmid.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pNDV-HXP-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The next day, cells were transfected with 2 μg of pNDV-HXP-S, 1 μg of pTM1-NP, 0.5 μg of pTM1-P, 0.5 μg of pTM1-L and 1 μg of pCI-T7opt were re-suspended in 250 μL of Opti-MEM (Gibco).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pTM1-NP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pTM1-P</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pTM1-L</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCI-T7opt</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: The statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 7.0.</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: 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">NCT04764422</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">Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of NDV-HXP-S Vaccine in…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04830800</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">A Phase 1/2 Safety and Immunogenicity Trial of COVID-19 Vacc…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04871737</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 a Live rNDV Based Vaccine Against COVID-19</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.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.04.21259991: (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">10 Google mobility data: The mobility data was sourced from Google to analyze changes in the number of visits to places in the following categories: (a) grocery and pharmacy, (b) parks, (c) transit stations, (d) retail and recreation, (e) residential, and (f) workplaces.11 The data provides information for how visits and duration of staying at different places changes compared to baseline values which is the median value for the corresponding day of the week, during the five weeks of January 3 — February 6, 2020.</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></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.
      • 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: The investigator will be responsible for obtaining written informed consent from each participant prior to screening as per the national ethics guidelines [19].<br>IACUC: The investigator will be responsible for obtaining written informed consent from each participant prior to screening as per the national ethics guidelines [19].<br>IRB: Serious adverse events will require immediate reporting by the study investigator to the Sponsor and Ethics Committee, within 24 hours, of becoming aware of the SAE.</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">Eligibility: Inclusion criteria: Apparently healthy adults of either sex aged 18-45 years; SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR negative tested volunteers and eligible for vaccination; Written informed consent by the participants; Willing to comply with study protocol requirements; Female participants of childbearing potential with a negative urine pregnancy test carried out within 24 hours prior to study vaccine administration or should be classified as non-childbearing potential (defined as surgically sterile or post-menopausal); Women with a child bearing potential shall continue adequate contraception (Barrier or hormonal) throughout the duration of the study.</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">Study design: This will be a prospective, randomized, double blind, parallel group, placebo controlled, multicentric study on healthy volunteers receiving the COVISHIELD™ vaccine with a superiority design.</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">Study design: This will be a prospective, randomized, double blind, parallel group, placebo controlled, multicentric study on healthy volunteers receiving the COVISHIELD™ vaccine with a superiority design.</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 the calculated with 80% power and after consideration of interim analysis at the end of 12 weeks; assuming vaccine efficacy of 80% [24].</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">Clinical outcomes: Primary Outcome Measure: Immunogenicity as measured by SARS-CoV-2 spike (S1) and RBD-specific IgG antibody titres.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RBD-specific 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">All statistical processing will be performed using standard statistical package (SPSS, BMDP, and CIA) unless otherwise stated.</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 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259910: (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: Access to administrative data was conducted in conformity with the Italian Privacy Code (Legislative decree 196/2003, amended by Legislative Decree 101/2018), which exempts from the obligation to seek written informed consent when using pseudonymized data that are primarily collected for healthcare management and healthcare quality evaluation and improvement.</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">Statistical analysis: Owing to the availability of multiple weekly observations in the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown period, we performed an interrupted time-series analysis (ITSA), a quasi-experimental design that represents a robust alternative to randomized studies when the latter are not feasible [27].</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">In keeping with the specification of the indicator adopted by Italy’s National Outcomes Program [14], HDRs were excluded from the analysis if any of the following criteria was met: Hospitalization rates were obtained as the number of hospital admissions for HF in the resident population aged ≥65 years per 100,000 inhabitants.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>National Outcomes Program</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analyses were performed using Stata version 15 (StataCorp. 2017. Stata Statistical Software:</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:
      Strengths and limitations: The results of this study should be interpreted considering its strengths and limitations. ITSA is a quasi-experimental research design with a potentially high degree of internal validity, and the addition of a control group (i.e., 2018/19 data) strengthens the causal inference that can be drawn from its results [45]. By standardizing rates, we also accounted for individual-level confounding differences to evaluate the outcomes of interest at the population level, but ITSA does not allow inferences about the patients that make up the experimental and control cohorts. Another limitation to our study is that we did not have access to the hospital reorganization protocols of Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, so we could not test which one of several potential factors played the leading role in determining our findings. Other limitations are common to all studies based on healthcare administrative data, including lack of accuracy and differences in the coding criteria over time as well as across individuals and institutions. However, there is no reason to believe that such potential source of information bias might have significantly affected our difference-in-differences estimates.

      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">Definitions: The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FPOH) defined the following COVID-19 risk groups: persons over the age of 50; those with comorbidities including hypertension, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, being immunocompromised, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or obesity (BMI >30); persons who live in a nursing home or long-term care facility; and those who are pregnant.</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 limitations of this study include different response rates among the HCW professions and potential over-representation of hospital-based HCWs. We conducted a web-based cross-sectional online survey in which participation was voluntary but highly supported by the hospital-based personnel. Hospital-based HCWs may be over-represented. HCWs interested in the topic are more likely to respond to the questionnaire, and respondents with biases may select themselves into the sample. This might lead to an overestimation of vaccine hesitancy. Compared to other online surveys, this survey was distributed among specific groups of HCWs to cover this heterogeneous population better. Additionally, attitudes towards vaccination against COVID-19 and willingness to get vaccinated change over time. With more people being vaccinated, acceptance increases, and vaccine hesitancy might decrease. This study’s strength is the inclusion of diverse health care institutions and HCWs who play quite different roles within them. We included HCWs working with varying populations of risk ranging from nursing home residents, hospitalised patients to people living in long-term care facilities. Furthermore, the survey covered the three largest health care providers in the canton of Solothurn.

      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.

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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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      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 Institutional Review Board of the Clinical Research and Genome Research Committee at Yamanashi Central Hospital approved this study and the use of an opt-out consent method (Approval No. C2019-30).<br>Consent: Ethics statement: The Institutional Review Board of the Clinical Research and Genome Research Committee at Yamanashi Central Hospital approved this study and the use of an opt-out consent method (Approval No. C2019-30).</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">Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific; Waltham, MA, United States) as previously described [16].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fisher Scientific</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific, RRID:SCR_008452)</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 10.1101/2021.07.06.451119: (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: 2.3 Ethics statement: Experiments were approved by the IIBR animal care and use committee (IACUC) and performed in accordance with the guidelines of the care and use of laboratory animals published by the Israeli Ministry of Health<br>Euthanasia Agents: 2.9 Vaccine Replication in the K18 hACE2 transgenic mouse model: Animals were euthanized by cervical dislocation immediately following vaccination (time 0), 24, 48 and 72 hours post vaccination (n=4 mice per time point).</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">Female New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits were obtained from Charles River, France, and were 14-16 weeks of age at study initiation.</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">Histopathologic changes consistent with neurovirulence were scored, in a double blinded manner, based on the presence and severity of perivascular infiltrates, gliosis, neurodegeneration, satellitosis, and necrosis.</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">Control animals were injected with carrier buffer at an identical dose volume and under identical experimental conditions. 2.5 Immunogenicity and Cellular Immunity Determination: The immunogenicity of the vaccine was evaluated by determining the NT50 values of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (the dilution at which 50% neutralization was observed), as was assessed by the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) [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></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">Primary recovery of the rVSV-ΔG-SARS-CoV-2-S was performed in BHK-21 cells infected with Modified Vaccinia Ankara T7 (MVA-T7), followed by co-transfection with the rVSV-SARS-CoV-2-S, and the VSV accessory plasmids encoding for VSV-N, P, L and G proteins under control of a T7 promoter.</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">The organs were processed for titration in 1.5ml ice-cold PBS and titered on VERO-E6 cells.</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">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">2.2 Animals: C57BL/6J, knockout for type I interferon (IFN) receptors (Ifnar−/−) and hACE2-K18 mice were obtained from The Jackson Laboratory, USA, and were 6-12 weeks of age at study initiation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6J</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>hACE2-K18</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">K18 hACE2 transgenic mice were vaccinated by a single i.m. injection (hind limb) at a dose of 107 PFU and at a dose volume of 0.05 ml/animal.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For histopathology evaluations, rVSV-ΔG-SARS-CoV-2-S C57BL/6 (n=3), rVSV-ΔG-SARS-CoV-2-S IFNAR (n=6) or VSV-WT C57BL/6 (n=5) intracranially injected mice were sacrificed on day 14, 14 and 2, respectively.</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">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">2.1 Virus and vaccine: Generation of the pVSVΔG-S construct was described in detail, previously [6].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pVSVΔG-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, the pVSV-spike expression plasmid was constructed by PCR amplification of the full-length human codon-optimized S gene from pCMV3-SARS-CoV-2 S expression plasmid (Sino Biological, Cat# VG40588-UT) that was used to replace the VSV-G (Glycoprotein) open reading frame within the VSV full length expression vector, yielding pVSV-ΔG-spike.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pVSV-spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCMV3-SARS-CoV-2 S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pVSV-ΔG-spike</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: 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">NCT04608305</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">Evaluate the Safety, Immunogenicity and Potential Efficacy o…</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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.07.03.21259626: (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: Exclusion criteria were: individuals too sick to participate; those who declined consent and those we were unable to contact.<br>Field Sample Permit: The process of finding the contacts of the COVID-19 survivors, contacting them and perform data collection in this pandemic were permitted and approved by the appropriate authority of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.</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">The sample size calculation was performed using “EPI INFO” software version 7.4.2.0 developed by the Center for Disease Control in the US.</td></tr></table>

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      <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 sample size calculation was performed using “EPI INFO” software version 7.4.2.0 developed by the Center for Disease Control in the US.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>INFO”</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Figure 7 presents the associated risk factors identified for LCS using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using SPSS AMOS version 24.0 (Figure 7).</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 limitation of that study was that all participants had been treated as In-patients in hospital, unlike this research study, in which the majority of participants did not receive hospital treatment and remained at home during recovery. Our study adds valuable research knowledge to the gap in understanding the prevalence and nature of LCS in survivors, who have remained at home during their illness. Our study is larger than the two previous studies conducted in Bangladesh13-14 and provides new research knowledge on associated risk factors for LCS, in addition to identifying risk factors associated with a longer time length of these symptoms. In this study, the most common symptom during the acute phase was fever, closely followed by fatigue and upper respiratory tract symptoms. This is consistent with literature that has reported similar symptoms.25-26 The study found eight LCS, with fatigue being the most common symptom closely followed by muscle pain and dyspnea. In another study27, after three to nine months, 14% of individuals had fatigue problems. Most available literature unanimously reports fatigue1,15,16as the most common LCS. After this, many studies reportbreathlessness28,1,6 as the second most common LCS with other studies citing anosmia, cough and myalgia to also be common.29 Augustin et al30, reported a study where non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients had more anosmia (12.4%) and ageusia (11.1%) than fatigue (9.7%) and shortness of breath (8.6%) over a four-to-se...

      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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.06.451227: (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">First, we constructed pairwise global alignment of the reference and mutated proteins using Biopython (16).</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">Aiming to compose a list of the most frequent HLA alleles, we first used CIWD v3.0.0 database (17).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CIWD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The set of the most frequent HLA-DPA1 and HLA-DQA1 alleles was obtained from the PyPop database (18).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PyPop</div><div>suggested: (PYPOP, RRID:SCR_013425)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flask Python framework was used to build the website.</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">Data processing and visualization were conducted with the extensive use of Pandas (19), NumPy (20), SciPy (21) and Seaborn (22)</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SciPy</div><div>suggested: (SciPy, RRID:SCR_008058)</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:
      We note several limitations of our work. The main limitation is since successful peptide presentation by HLA molecule does not guarantee further recognition by a TCR. Thus, clinical implications of significant alterations in HLA-peptide binding affinity should be further experimentally assessed. The second limitation involves officially unannotated SARS-CoV-2 proteins which could contain T cell epitopes: proteomics analysis carried out by Weingarten-Gabbay with co-authors resulted in detection of highly affine HLA-I peptides from out-of-frame ORFs (25). While some of these ORFs were included in our analysis (e.g., ORF9b), the other entries like S.iORF1/2 were not considered. Moreover, synonymous nucleotide substitutions which were ignored in our study could result in nonsynonymous amino acid substitutions in noncanonical reading frames. Such kind of analysis will be included in the next versions of T-CoV portal.

      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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    1. sciscore 09 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259404: (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">Reads from each sample were mapped against the SARS-CoV-2 reference genome (NCBI accession: NC_045512.2) with Bowtie2 v2.4.2 (Langmead and Salzberg, 2012), and mapping files were indexed and sorted with SAMtools v1.12 (Li et al., 2009).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bowtie2</div><div>suggested: (Bowtie 2, RRID:SCR_016368)</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">BCFtools v1.12 was used for variant calling and consensus genome inference, while BEDtools v2.30.0 (Quinlan and Hall, 2010) was used to mask low coverage sites (< 100-fold)</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">These sequences were all aligned to the genome sequences herein described with MAFFT v7.475 (Katoh and Standley, 2013) and a maximum likelihood tree was inferred with IQ-tree v2.0.3 (Minh et al., 2020) under the GTR+F+I+G4 model (Tavaré, 1986; Yang, 1994). 2.5 Phylodynamics: To further access the temporal dynamics of introduction of VOC Gamma in Rio de Janeiro city, we performed molecular clock analyses on a fully Bayesian framework using BEAST v1.10.4 (Suchard et al., 2018).</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IQ-tree</div><div>suggested: (IQ-TREE, RRID:SCR_017254)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BEAST</div><div>suggested: (BEAST, RRID:SCR_010228)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Eight independent chains of 50 million generations sampling every 10,000 states were performed and convergence (effective sample size > 200 for all parameters) was verified on Tracer v1.7.1 (Rambaut et al., 2018) after 10% burnin removal.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Tracer</div><div>suggested: (Tracer, RRID:SCR_019121)</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.

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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">Python’s prominence is increasing, widely in the all areas like Bio informatics and data analysis as well as in programming too (Latif et al. 2020).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python’s</div><div>suggested: (PyMVPA, RRID:SCR_006099)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Various Python big data research libraries, such as pandas, matplotlib, NumPy, and seaborn, are also used in this analysis (Figure-3).</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><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">Python libraries are commonly used to visualize data, and visualization tool is becoming simpler with the use of these free libraries.</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:
      The limitation of this study in our analysis we did not consider data from the seventh continent Antarctica as there is not any permeant resident staying although there is at least 36 people confirmed with COVID infection (https://www.barrons.com/; https://www.coolantarctica.com/). Asia: Asia has a total of 23225625.0 COVID-19 positive cases and 22836076.0 recovered cases as of May 15th, 2021. According to this, the mortality rate will be 1.6359 percent until May 15th, 2021. From February 24, 2020 to May 15th, 2021, the daily recover cases and daily confirm cases are depicted in Figure-4 (B) (scatter graph). On September 16, 2020, the highest number of new cases were registered in India, with 97894.0 (new cases) out of 1136613.0 (new tests). The COVID-19 cases peaked in September 2020, according to Figure-5 (B) (histogram), and then started to decline. Total tests performed in Asia were 373625749.0, with 23225625.0 confirmed cases. As a result of this, 6.2163 percent of the cases tested positive. Africa: Africa has total COVID-19 positive cases till May 15th 2021 are 4027046.0 and recover are 3912657.0. On basis of that the death ratio is 2.6701 %. Figure-4 (E) is showing the daily recover cases and positive cases. Figure-5 (E) is showing the positive cases going from 25th February 2020 to May 15th 2021. Although Africa has 17.2% of the world’s population, it only has about 5% of COVID-19 cases diagnosed and 3% of COVID-19-related mortality (Bamgboye et al. 2020). Europe: Eur...

      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 reviewed by the University at Buffalo Institutional Review Board and determined to be “Not Human Research” (IRB ID: STUDY00004515).</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>

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      <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">Denatured libraries were diluted to a final concentration in Illumina HT1 buffer(12.5 pM for MiSeq and 1.5 pM for NextSeq).</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">Upon completion of the sequencing run, data were transferred to the high-performance computing facility (Center for Computational Research) located in the Center of Excellence building at the University at Buffalo. UB GBC SARS-COV-2 Bioinformatics Analysis: The GBC SARS-COV-2 analysis pipeline (https://github.com/UBGBC/fastq-to-consensus) is modelled off of the recommendations provided by the CDC SARS-COV-2 spheres working group (https://github.com/CDCgov/SARS-CoV-2_Sequencing), and is written in the python pipeline framework Snakemake.</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">Then, reads are checked for initial quality using fastqc, fastq_screen, and multiqc, prior to adapter removal analysis via the tool Cutadapt.</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">To detect inter-lineage variation, we compared each sample’s spread of variants utilizing the Bedtools jaccard function, which generates a Jaccard index score between every sample.</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">The resulting similarity matrix was then used as input for hierarchical cluster analysis in 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">14 The resulting alignment was then used as input into the FastTree algorithm [price, 2009; price, 2010), inferring maximum-likelihood phylogeny using the jukes-cantor distance model of nucleotide evolution, generating a newick formatted phylogenetic tree.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FastTree</div><div>suggested: (FastTree, RRID:SCR_015501)</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">Consent: Ethical approvals were obtained from all institutions and written informed consent was obtained from each participant.</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">Ltd) following the manufacturers’ instructions using randomly selected small panels (pre-pandemic; n=40, and COVID-19; n=40) from the large size panels that were used for our assay validation.</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>

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      <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 assay is an indirect ELISA, measuring serum IgG against RBD of spike protein SARS-CoV-2, using a horseradish peroxidase-linked anti-human IgG secondary antibody (Invitrogen, USA)</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">Detection of RBD-specific IgG antibodies in each serum sample was done in duplicate microwells of ELISA plate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RBD-specific IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Positive and negative control samples were selected by matching their optical density (OD) readouts with WHO solidarity II plasma panels developed by the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC;20/130, single donor, high-titer antibody), 20/120 (single donor, relatively high-titer antibody), 20/122 (pool of five donor samples, mid-titer antibody), 20/124 (low S1, high-nucleocapsid protein antibody titer), 20/126 (low-titer antibody, 20/128, negative control).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Control (NIBSC;20/130, single donor, high-titer</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In-house IgG ELISA comparison with commercial anti-SARS-CoV-2 serologic assays: We further compared the relative sensitivity and specificity of our assay with commercially available SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests: one lateral flow assay (LFA) (Hangzhou Realy Tech Co., LTD) and one ELISA (Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise Co.,</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">We then utilized this assay to estimate the seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD IgG antibodies among HWS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD 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 RBD protein was then expressed in EXPi293 cells using previous methods12.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EXPi293</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</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">Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA): The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein Receptor Binding Domain (RBD)-containing plasmid construct was cloned as described previously12.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RBD)-containing</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 analysis: The data were double entered into REDCap Database Version 8.11.</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">Following data verification and validation, analysis was done using STATA Version 15.0.</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">Figures were generated using GraphPad Prism Version 9.1.</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:
      Despite these strengths, our study has several limitations. First, all hospital staff were invited to take part in the study, and hence selection bias might have affected our results. Second, recall bias might have affected the responses to the history of symptoms compatible with COVID-19, and close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case, and thereby contributed to the absence of a strong correlation between seropositivity and these covariates, albeit having close contact with COVID-19 case. Third, our findings are slightly affected by the accuracy of our assay, with a sensitivity of 100% in convalescent samples from RT-PCR conformed COVID-19 cases and specificity of 97.7% in pre-COVID-19 samples. However, even this slight overestimation of the apparent seroprevalence associated with the assay specificity is likely to be matched by the proportion of study participants who might be infected and yet not produce humoral immune responses at the time of blood sample collection. In conclusion, we developed an in-house IgG ELISA that meets the WHO requirements to be utilized for SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance studies. This seroprevalence study revealed a remarkably high seroprevalence (40-48%) of SARS-CoV-2 among HWs in the five public hospitals; with slight differences amongst hospitals, except Hiwot Fana Specialized Hospital in which relatively lowest (24.5%) seroprevalence was found. We found no seroprevalence rate differences between front line HWs and administrative staff, indicat...

      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">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">Search strategy: Four electronic databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Web of Science), preprint servers medRxiv, PsyArXiv, Wellcome Open Research, and JMIR were searched for research relating to COVID-19, mental illness, and remote working from 1st January – 9th December 2020.</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>PsycINFO</div><div>suggested: (PsycINFO, RRID:SCR_014799)</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 limitations: The studies included in this review identified outcomes across different settings and healthcare systems, which may help findings generalise to different settings. This review also captured recent findings on the use of telemental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing findings to be used to improve both existing and future models of remote mental health care. However, it is also important to take some limitations into account when interpreting the findings from this review. Firstly, the results from quality assessment indicated that whilst around half of primary research studies and the majority of the service evaluations were high quality, around half of primary research studies were scored as moderate to low. This reflects the short nature of studies and often quick turnaround from data collection to publication. Some studies were also published in preprint form and therefore had not undergone peer review. The majority of studies used cross-sectional data, rather than more rigorous methods. Secondly, there was a lack of high quality quantitative evidence for the clinical effectiveness of telemental health care. Clinical effectiveness outcomes were only reported in 9/77 included studies, with some of these findings only based on qualitative evidence or a small number of service users. It is also important to note that the voices of those who dropped out of care may not be included. The short time scale for data collection and assessment 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.

      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">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 with the following primary antibodies: mouse anti-Actin (Cell sig, 3700), rabbit anti-IMPDH2 (Proteintec, 12948-1-AP), mouse anti-Strep-tag (Quiagen, 34850).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Actin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IMPDH2</div><div>suggested: (Proteintech Cat# 12948-1-AP, RRID:AB_2127351)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Strep-tag ( Quiagen , 34850</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary antibodies: rabbit anti mouse - HRP conjugated (Millipore), mouse anti rabbit-HRP conjugated (Millipore).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti mouse -</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti rabbit-HRP conjugated ( Millipore) .</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">HEK293T cell transcriptome was used as a reference to query for Enriched GO terms from up- and down-regulated DEG lists.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</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">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">Plasmids pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-proteins-2xStrep-IRES-Puro proteins are a gift from Nevan Krogan (Addgene)(Gordon, Jang, et al., 2020) are listed in Table 14 and purified by Midi-prep using Invitrogen kit.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-proteins-2xStrep-IRES-Puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, 1500ng of total DNA (1200 ng of pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-proteins-2xStrep-IRES-Pur + 300ng of pLVX-EF1alpha-eGFP-2xStrep-IRES-Puro) were incubated at RT for 20 min with PEI, with a ratio 3:1=PEI:DNA in 100ul of serum free medium, and the mixture was added to the cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-proteins-2xStrep-IRES-Pur</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLVX-EF1alpha-eGFP-2xStrep-IRES-Puro</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_141395)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cloning of Nsp14 ExoN mutants: pLXV-EIF1 alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-D90A/G92A-IRES-Puro: pLXV-EF1alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-IRES-Puro was opened with BsrGI-HF (NEB) and EcoRI-HF (NEB).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLXV-EIF1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-D90A/G92A-IRES-Puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLXV-EF1alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-IRES-Puro</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_141380)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gblock: Gaattcgccgccaccatgtggtcccatccgcagtttgagaagggtggtggttcaggcggaggctccgggggcgggagctggtctcaccc gcaatttgaaaaaggcgctgcggctgctgaaaatgtaacgggcttgtttaaagactgtagtaaagtgatcacaggactccaccccacacaag cacctacccacctttccgtagatacgaagttcaaaacggaaggattgtgtgtggatataccagggataccaaaggatatgacgtaccgaagg ctgatttccatgatgggttttaagatgaattaccaagttaatggctaccccaacatgttcatcaccagggaggaggcaattagacacgtaagag cctggataggcttcGCCgttGCCggttgccatgcaacccgggaagccgtaggcacaaaccttccgttgcagcttggcttttccacgggc gtcaacctcgttgccgtaccgactggctatgttgacacgccgaacaacaccgatttctctcgcgtaagtgctaagcctcctccgggagatcaa ttcaagcatcttatacctctcatgtaca Primers: D90AG92A_F: cacacGaattcgccgccac D90AG92A _R: cacacTGTACATGAGAGGTATAAGA pLXV-EIF1 alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-D273A-IRES-Puro: pLXV-EF1alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-IRES-Puro was opened with BstBI (NEB) and AfeI (NEB).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLXV-EIF1 alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-D273A-IRES-Puro: pLXV-EF1alpha-2xStrep-SARS-CoV-2-nsp14-IRES-Puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Primers: D273A_F: CCACACTTCGAACTTACTTCTATG D273A_R: cacacagcgctgcttttactacc Cloning of CXCL8-Firefly reporter: pGL_RSV_RF_BG (a modification of the pGL plasmid) was a kind gift from Dr. Marr at Brandeis University.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pGL</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_119952)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were transfected with 75ng of Firefly reporter, 75ng of Renilla reporter, and 600ng of pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-Nsp14-2xStrep-IRES-Puro or 600ng of empty vector.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLVX-EF1alpha-SARS-CoV-2-Nsp14-2xStrep-IRES-Puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Addgene plasmid # 49343; http://n2t.net/addgene:49343; RRID:Addgene_49343)(Wilson et al., 2013) 7xE-Box::Renilla was a gift from Koen Venken (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div></div><div>detected: RRID:Addgene_49343)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Addgene plasmid # 124532; http://n2t.net/addgene:124532; RRID:Addgene_124532, Sarrion-Perdigones et al., 2020) At the indicated time point, cells were lysate in lysis buffer (25 mM Tris-phosphate at pH 7.8, 10% glycerol, 1% Triton X-100, 1 mg/ml of bovine serum albumin (BSA), 2 mM cyclohexylene diamin tetraacetate, and 2 mM DTT).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div></div><div>detected: RRID:Addgene_124532)</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">, Gemini Bio/Fisher, # 100-602), and 1X Penicillin-Streptomycin (Penicillin-Streptomycin 100x, Genesee Scientific, 25-512)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gemini Bio/Fisher</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bioinformatic analyses: Raw reads were aligned to the human genome (hg38) using STAR (Dobin et al., 2013)</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">FeatureCounts (Gohr and Irimia, 2019) was used to quantify mapped transcripts from total RNA-seq libraries.</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">DEGs with |L2FC| > 1, p-adjusted value <0.05 were considered significant and used as input in downstream Gene Ontology (GO) analysis (DAVID, v 6.8).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DAVID</div><div>suggested: (DAVID, RRID:SCR_001881)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was performed using the fgsea package in R (Sergushichev et al., 2016)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gene set enrichment analysis</div><div>suggested: (Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, RRID:SCR_003199)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data visualization was carried out using ggplot2 in R.</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">Differentially expressed circRNAs were found by DESeq2 (Love, Huber and Anders, 2014)</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">We used the motif data base HOmo sapiens COmprehensive MOdel COllection (HOCOMOCO) v11 transcription factor (TF) binding models (binding profiles or binding motifs) for human transcription factors.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HOCOMOCO</div><div>suggested: (HOCOMOCO, RRID:SCR_005409)</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">Field Sample Permit: These six categories recorded in the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports were defined as (1) retail and recreation: the mobility trend in closed spaces such as restaurants, coffee shops, department stores, museums, libraries, and movie theaters; (2) grocery and pharmacy: the mobility trend in locations such as supermarkets, convenience stores, markets, and drugstores; (3) parks: the mobility trend in public areas such as parks, beaches, and harbours; (4) transit stations: the mobility trend in public transportation such as subways, railways, and buses; (5) workplace: the mobility trend in going to workplaces; and (6) residential: the mobility trend in staying at home.</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">Database: Google provides the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports by using historical GPS data of users around the world12.</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">Since the mobility report was a line graph, we used WebPlotDigitizer software to extract the percentage of these six categories in all 47 prefectures of Japan (https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WebPlotDigitizer</div><div>suggested: (WebPlotDigitizer, RRID:SCR_013996)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical analyses were performed by JMP version 12 (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC, USA).</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:
      Besides, we acknowledge that our study has several limitations. Since Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports only recorded the location history of people who had a Google account and enabled the setting for location history, data of our study cannot represent the mobility trend of the whole Japanese population. Additionally, evaluation of the influence of school closure was restricted within four weeks since its application. Thus, this physical distancing measure requires a monthly assessment to identify its long-term potency. In conclusion, the impacts of school closure could diversely vary among countries with different population structures and various cultural identities. By using the COVID-19 Community Mobility Report from Google, our study quantified the short-term effects of school closure on the mobility of Japanese citizens for retail and recreation, grocery and pharmacy, parks, transit stations, workplace, and residential and determined a significant change in the mobility trend of Japanese citizens before and after school closure. In Japan, even though the policies and the control measures of the government to manage the outbreak just stopped at the level of strong recommendation but not compulsion, these data reflected the responsibility and the awareness of Japanese citizens to a certain degree. While the efficacy of school closure is still debatable, its capability to control the pandemic cannot be ignored. Closing schools had reduced the social interactions...

      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">Field Sample Permit: Part of the content was developed in the framework of the Corona Immunitas research program, a national program aiming to coordinate regional SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence studies across Switzerland.24 The questionnaire measured COVID-19 vaccination status, intention to get vaccinated, reasons to get vaccinated, reasons for refusing vaccination, vaccination-related beliefs (e.g., perceived efficacy, perceived safety, preference for natural immunity), perceived utility of COVID-19 vaccination, willingness to vaccinate one’s children against COVID-19, and attitude towards vaccination in general.<br>Consent: Ethical Considerations: All participants of the Specchio-COVID19 digital platform provided informed and written consent upon enrolment in the study.<br>IRB: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Cantonal Research Ethics Commission of Geneva, Switzerland (project number 2020-00881).</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">Study design, setting and sample: This population-based cross-sectional study was embedded in a longitudinal digital cohort study called Specchio-COVID19, which was launched in December 2020 to follow up over time participants of serosurveys conducted in the canton of Geneva.22 Serosurvey participants were randomly selected from the general population at two time points: 1) between April and June 2020, participants were enrolled from a previous general health survey representative of the population of the Canton of Geneva aged between 20 and 75 years old23, and 2) between November and December 2020, participants were randomly selected from registries of the Canton of Geneva stratified by age and sex15.</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: The main strengths of this study are is its large sample size with all adult ages represented, as well as the availability of data on sociodemographic (age, sex, education level, income) and health-related characteristics (serologic status, chronic diseases, smoking status) which allowed stratification of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance according to these factors. Very little research has been conducted on the drivers of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance now that vaccination is available to the general population. Indeed, most previous studies carried out globally were conducted in periods when COVID-19 vaccines were not available or accessible only to certain groups, such as healthcare workers or key workers.43,44 It is also of outright importance to investigate the factors influencing perception of COVID-19 vaccination at the local level, as vaccination hesitancy may be widely influenced by regional and cultural factors. Several limitations of our study should be acknowledged. Although participation rate in this study was high, generalization of the results presented here requires caution as our sample is not completely representative of the general population of the canton of Geneva. While we mitigated this by collecting and adjusting our results for important socio-demographic characteristics, a selection bias remains. Participation required French literacy, internet access and digital literacy, potentially excluding part of the general population. Re...

      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.

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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:
      A number of countries, such as Sweden, adopted a de-facto herd immunity approach, without imposing severe limitations to viral propagation in the community, with controversial results (Bjorklund and Ewing, 2020; Claeson and Hanson, 2020). The goal of the Swedish Public Health Agency was to assure the intensive care for elderly patients with the highest mortality risk (Chew et al., 2021). This approach could probably have been accompanied by a strict lockdown for the elderly. Considering the European incidence of COVID-19 deaths in May 2021, Sweden had a lower per capita incidence of COVID-19 mortality than France, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, or Hungary (Steward, 2021), and elderly lockdown is probably one of the most effective interventions to be considered (Soltesz et al., 2020). We should accept that the multifactorial and variable landscape of viral epidemics, where the infection process itself modifies the transmission parameters, is also influenced by the geography, demography, and lifestyles of the population, which makes it difficult to establish general fixed parameters, to a certain extent leading to a “parametric scepticism”. Therefore, the use of flexible models, such as those applied in this study, can mimic differing conditions (that can be adjusted to the locally observed conditions). Integrating parametric ranges and stochastic dynamics is simply a necessity in predicting the policy of corrective interventions in a particular local landscape.

      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">Consent: For samples from the natural exposure cohort, all participants provided written informed consent, and the present study was approved by the Regional Ethics Committee for Human Research in Linköping (Dnr. 2019-0618).<br>IRB: For samples from the natural exposure cohort, all participants provided written informed consent, and the present study was approved by the Regional Ethics Committee for Human Research in Linköping (Dnr. 2019-0618).</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">Cons were defined as neither having any positive circulating IgG-antibody or T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2, while CC19s were defined by the presence of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies in plasma using suspension multiplex immunoassay (SMIA), some of which were positive for IgG in saliva, rapid test and in T cell responses as well.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Stimulation with anti-CD3 antibody at a concentration of 1 µg/ml was used as a positive control for each subject.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-CD28 antibody (3608-1-50, Mabtech, Sweden) was included at a final concentration of 0.1 μg/ml as a co-stimulator.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-CD28</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The beads were resuspended in 100 µl of 1 µg/ml goat anti-human IgG-PE labelled antibody (Southern BioTech,, Birmingham, AL, USA. Cat. #2040-09) in PBS-T + 1% BSA and incubated for 30 min at RT in the dark with rotation at 600 rpm.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG-PE</div><div>suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 2040-09, RRID:AB_2795648)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, the cells were incubated with mouse-anti-dsRNA antibody (Scions, Code: J2 at 1:100 dilution) for 1.5 h followed by detection using horseradish peroxidase–conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (heavy plus light chain) (Catalog: 1706516, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) (1:1000) for 1 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>mouse-anti-dsRNA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: (Bio-Rad Cat# 170-6516, RRID:AB_11125547)</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 or mock Vero cell supernatant was added to the PBMC cultures corresponding to a multiplicity of infection of 0.01.</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">Finally, the SARS CoV-2 infected Vero E6 cells were identified using 3-aminoethylcarbazole (AEC) substrate.</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">Next, the cells were incubated with mouse-anti-dsRNA antibody (Scions, Code: J2 at 1:100 dilution) for 1.5 h followed by detection using horseradish peroxidase–conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (heavy plus light chain) (Catalog: 1706516, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) (1:1000) for 1 h.</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">Concentrations of extracted DNA were measured using the Qubit® 4.0 Fluorometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S), using dsDNA High Sensitivity (HS) Assay Kit and RNA HS Assay Kit.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Qubit®</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Thereafter, we performed singular value decomposition (SVD) analyses using the ChAMP package (45</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ChAMP</div><div>suggested: (ChAMP, RRID:SCR_012891)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential DNA methylation analysis in vivo: As we were interested in studying CpGs that were differentially methylated between CC19s and non-infected controls from both before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we performed differential DNA methylation analyses, using the limma package (version 3.46.0).</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">Pathway over-representation analyses: To make biological sense of the putatively SARS-CoV-2-induced DNA methylation differences, we performed PANTHER pathway over-representation test analyses using the PANTHER database (version 16.0).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PANTHER</div><div>suggested: (PANTHER, RRID:SCR_004869)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The significantly enriched pathways were displayed in dot plots generated in R using ggplot2 package (version 3.3.3).</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 graph clustering algorithm MCODE (48) was used to identify molecular complexes and create a large disease module, which was then fitted to a protein-protein interaction network, and both were analysed and rendered in Cytoscape (version 3.8.0).</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">In addition, the inference of modules was performed with two other methods from the MODifieR package (DIAMOnD and WGCNA)(50) to study whether it was possible to condense the module genes to fewer genes of particular interest within the network, for both the in vivo and the in vitro setting.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DIAMOnD</div><div>suggested: (DIAMOND, RRID:SCR_009457)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Overlap to SARS-CoV-2 interactome: A publicly available protein-protein interaction (PPI) network of SARS-COV-2 and human genes curated by BioGRID (version 4.4.197) was downloaded from the Network Data Exchange in Cytoscape (version 3.8.0).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioGRID</div><div>suggested: (BioGrid Australia, RRID:SCR_006334)</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:
      Although an obvious limitation of the study is the lack of validation of the DNAm findings on a transcriptional level, it serves as a pilot study that generates hypotheses for further studies within the field. Hence, whether the observed DNAm patterns are indeed associated or even causally linked to host protective or host detrimental immune responses still needs to be addressed in future studies. With more well-designed, larger, consecutive sample materials, possibly also in closer proximity to the time of infection with SARS-CoV-2, it will be possible to study the role of DNAm alterations in anti-viral defence and in viral manipulation of the same. An advantage of the investigation of epigenetic modifications in in mild to moderately ill patients, is that we may be able to discern DNAm differences that otherwise would have been masked due to an overriding inflammatory response. These subtle changes may not only be relevant to how a less severe immune response is mounted towards SARS-CoV-2, but also in the case of long-COVID-19. The presentation of longstanding symptoms could be caused by detrimentally changed DNAm patterns, originally triggered as a short-term anti-viral response. This should be explored in detail in further studies since the risk is that these short-term responses may permanently alter and erroneously manifest in the DNA methylome.

      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.

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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: 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">Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Spike, Receptor Binding Domain, and Nucleocapsid Protein ELISAs: In order to investigate potential cross-reactivity between AT1R-Ab and SARS-CoV-2 Spike, we tested plasma from AT1R-Ab positive control subjects and randomly selected AT1R-Ab negative controls for reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 Spike trimer (including both S1 and S2 domains), as previously published (12).</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-AT1R Antibody Screening: The concentration of AT1R-Ab in plasma was measured with a quantitative ELISA (Celltrend, Luckenwalde, Germany) using the entire AT1R protein, with assays performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-AT1R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing, AT1R-Ab was detected with HRP-labelled anti-human IgG antibody followed by enzymatic substrate reaction.</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">Distribution of HLA and SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses were compared with the Chi-square test.</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></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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      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">2018) and RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/).</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">The RT-qPCR abundance data were analyzed in R using ggplot2 (v0.9.3.1).</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></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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259536: (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: Participants were contacted via a ‘gatekeeper’ in the organisations listed above, and gave written consent via email.</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">2.2 Data collection: Interviews were conducted remotely, by John Ratcliffe, via video call (Google hangouts, Zoom) or telephone, in an enclosed room using a headset.</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">Coding was conducted in NVivo (2020), in six stages:</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NVivo</div><div>suggested: (NVivo, RRID:SCR_014802)</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 and limitations: This study cannot gauge the scale of these themes across societies (Bryman, 2006), and it is difficult to identify precisely whether and how these findings are gendered in this data. The participants were fairly diverse, yet none were black, single parents, or either under 20 or over 71 years old. Though participants suggested numerous ways the pandemic was ‘easier for some than others’, these were often vague assertions, usually related to groups other than themselves, therefore this requires more focused research. The focus on semantic themes may also limit insight (Braun and Clarke, 2006). No participant had experienced Covid-19, and only one participant mentioned a person they knew who had. As such, the study offers limited insight to people with lived experience of the virus, particularly bereaved people who may be at risk of loneliness (Stroebe and Schut, 2020). The study is unable to balance people’s needs in relation to loneliness against the need to avoid transmission of SARS-COV-2. Support bubbles, outdoor exercise, attention from (adult) children, and involvement in local communities, were constructed as helpful to loneliness, yet involve social contact that may increase transmission. Conversely, it is impossible to derive from this data whether, when, and to what extent, anxiety of SARS-COV-2 is rational emotional response, or a cognitive problem. By focusing on semantic themes, this study was able to provide a timely addition to the...

      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

      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.
      • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259787: (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: 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">NCT04283461</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 2019-nCoV Vaccine (mRNA-1…</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.
      • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259491: (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">Analyses were conducted using PROC GENMOD in SAS Version 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: 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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259769: (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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259770: (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 Public Health Ontario Ethics Review Board determined that this project did not require research ethics committee approval as the activities described were considered public health practice and not 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">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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785: (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:
      Limitations: Our study is subject to a number of limitations. We are unable to account for the effect of protective shielding on differential exposure to SARS-Cov-2 among CYP thought to be vulnerable, which may have affected our estimates. However, our findings relate to risk factors for severe disease once hospitalised, whereas shielding is likely to bias estimates of risk factors for infection, which we did not examine. Missing or inaccurate data fields within HES or other datasets, and incomplete data linkage, may have affected our findings. We included both cause of admission and PCR testing for SARS-Cov-2 to identify CYP with COVID-19 to ensure we capture all likely cases, but this will have affected our case definition specificity. Identifying PIMS-TS cases was particularly problematic, as ICD-10 codes for this condition were only introduced several months into the pandemic. We included CYP coded with Kawasaki disease and systemic inflammatory response syndrome when examining PIMS-TS, some of whom will not have had the disease. We were unable to fully distinguish between admissions with COVID-19 and those due to COVID-19, and some of the admissions we classify as COVID-19 will include incidental positive PCR tests. We defined severe disease as CYP who were admitted to PICU, and were unable to assess the level of intensive support required. Our results may also have been affected by changes to thresholds for PICU admission, and coding practices, as the pandemic progresse...

      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 10.1101/2021.07.03.21259959: (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">Exclusion criteria: Information sources and literature search: We will search through PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Google Scholar, and ClinicalTrials.gov for published, unpublished, and ongoing studies.</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 Central Register of Controlled Trials</div><div>suggested: (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, RRID:SCR_006576)</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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    1. sciscore 08 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259782: (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 use a MATLAB routine to minimize the sum of squared differences between each observed cumulative mortality data point and the corresponding mortality point obtained from the model (A-8).</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Moreover, another limitation of the current framework of the model (A-8) is that it can only analyze one variant strain of SARS-CoV-2. Extension of this model could include multiple variant strains to determine the individual and collective impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. Since current studies show that naturally-acquired immunity is less likely to produce an immune response to the existing variants than vaccination (52; 30), another future extension of the model (A-8) could include the possibility that individuals who recovered from the wild-type strain (R1 class) could be directly infected by the variant strain without losing developed immunity from the wild-type strain. This would alter the vaccination reproduction number and basic reproduction number expressions of the model (A-8). The B.1.1.7 is currently the most dominant variant circulating in the US population (12; 16), and estimated to be 56% more infectious than the wild-type strain (20). The numerical simulations showed that if a moderate level of vaccination coverage (≥ 66% of the US population) and moderately-high level of cross-protective vaccination efficacy (εc ≥ 0.7) is attained, then a surge of variant-induced COVID-19 infections and mortality will not occur (under the assumption that both vaccine and naturally-acquired immunity lasts at least two years). One study showed that cross-protective efficacy is as high as 93% against the B.1.1.7 variant when two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are administered, but d...

      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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    1. sciscore 08 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.04.451040: (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">A matrix with all inter-family Jaccard coefficients was used for agglomerative hierarchical clustering by clustermap function of seaborn data visualization Python library with default options.</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">Mutation analyses: Mutations respect to the proteins of the reference Wuhan-1 strain (RefSeq: NC_045512.2) were identified by aligning with Clustal Omega 1.2.1 (40) with an in-house perl script.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Bioinformatic approaches suffer from intrinsic limitations. These include the possible application of biologically inappropriate thresholds and potentially low predictive performance. Furthermore, alleles considered in algorithms as much as the priceless genome sampling by the worldwide sequencing effort still represent an underestimation of biological variability. Such obstacles were addressed in this study by: (i) utilizing an state-of-the-art algorithm that permits nearly universal fine-grained predictions (~3000 alleles); (ii) the application of stringent cutoffs that reflect the natural strictness of the ligand-HLA binding; (iii) the re-calculation of peptide binding affinity for each mutation; and (iv) the utilization of a large dataset of ~118,000 viral genomes and their corresponding metadata. Mutations were stratified by occurrence, reduction of HLA-binding affinity and geographical dissemination. Thus, the integration of omic data and immunoinformatics in this study very likely capture, despite drawbacks, the principal trends that respond to the posed questions. Large epitope numbers were computationally predicted to be presented by most supertypes. Although all these supermotifs appeared mutated in at least one isolate, most of these mutations did not overcome the supermotif degeneracy. In most cases, the HLA binding affinity was reasonably maintained except from (i) residue substitutions in the second and C-terminal positions of the ligand core, amino acids that u...

      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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.03.450992: (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: All participants provided written consent using a protocol approved by National Jewish Health IRB.<br>IRB: Healthy donors (n=6) were recruited and provided written consented using a protocol approved by the University of Vermont Committee on Human 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">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">Plasma was incubated with the thrombin substrate Z-Gly-Gly-Arg 7-amido-4-methylcoumarin hydrochloride (0.42 mM) (Bachem AG, Switzerland) and CaCl2 (15 mM) (3 min, 37°C), and the reactions initiated by the addition of relipidated tissue factor1-242 (6.5 pM) (a gift from Dr. R. Lunblad, Baxter Healthcare Corp.) and synthetic vesicles consisting of 80% phosphatidylcholine and 20% phosphatidylserine (PCPS) (20 µM), or EA.hy926 cells (2×105).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EA.hy926</div><div>suggested: BCRJ Cat# 0345, RRID:CVCL_3901)</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">Plasma was incubated with the thrombin substrate Z-Gly-Gly-Arg 7-amido-4-methylcoumarin hydrochloride (0.42 mM) (Bachem AG, Switzerland) and CaCl2 (15 mM) (3 min, 37°C), and the reactions initiated by the addition of relipidated tissue factor1-242 (6.5 pM) (a gift from Dr. R. Lunblad, Baxter Healthcare Corp.) and synthetic vesicles consisting of 80% phosphatidylcholine and 20% phosphatidylserine (PCPS) (20 µM), or EA.hy926 cells (2×105).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Baxter Healthcare</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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    1. sciscore 08 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.451071: (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">Data from this individual are available in NCBI BioProject PRJNA705675</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 two smaller length fragment libraries were sheared using Covaris gTube and the 30kb targeted size library was fragmented with Diagnode Megarupter 3, all following manufacturer’s recommendations.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Covaris</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Base-calling was done onboard the PromethION instrument with the use of neuronal network based software (Oxford Nanopore Technologies, UK)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PromethION</div><div>suggested: (PromethION, RRID:SCR_017987)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Flye assembler v2.8.1 [18] was used to generate the initial de novo genome assembly.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Flye</div><div>suggested: (Flye, RRID:SCR_017016)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pilon uses high quality Illumina reads mapped to an assembly to correct errors arising from the lower quality ONT sequencing data.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pilon</div><div>suggested: (Pilon , RRID:SCR_014731)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Quality assessment: To assess the quality of our assembly compared to the previous MesAur1.0 we used Quast v5.0.2 [20] together with MUMmer v3.23 [21] and Assemblytics [22].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Quast</div><div>suggested: (QUAST, RRID:SCR_001228)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MUMmer</div><div>suggested: (MUMmer, RRID:SCR_018171)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In addition, the Illumina reads from the original reference (NCBI SRA SRR413408) were mapped to our assembly and the MesAur1.0 reference using BWA v0.7.17 [23] and Quast was used to obtain discordant pair statistics.</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">The software Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) v3.0.2 [24] was used for quality assessment of the genome assembly.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs</div><div>suggested: (BUSCO, RRID:SCR_015008)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">BUSCO was performed using the OrthoDB v9 (odb9</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BUSCO</div><div>suggested: (BUSCO, RRID:SCR_015008)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OrthoDB</div><div>suggested: (OrthoDB, RRID:SCR_011980)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The MesAur1.0 genome assembly is available in the NCBI database under BioProject PRJNA77669 (GenBank accession GCA_000349665.1).</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></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 10.1101/2021.07.04.450986: (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><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">Contamination: Cells have been tested negative for mycoplasma infection (MycoAlert Plus; Lonza, Basel, Switzerland).<br>Authentication: Microscopy: To analyze SARS-CoV-2 N protein expression in Caco-2 cells by immunofluorescence, microscopic images were taken at 0, 4, 24 and 48 hpi using a Nikon Eclipse Ti-S fluorescence microscope (Nikon, Tokio, Japan).</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">Reagents: We used antibodies to detect the SARS-CoV-2 nucleoprotein (mouse monoclonal; Sino Biologicals, Hong Kong, China) and GFP (mouse monoclonal; Roche Diagnostics).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GFP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For microscopy, the secondary antibody Alexa Fluor goat anti-mouse 568 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) was applied.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse 568</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Horseradish peroxidase-conjugated anti-mouse antibody (Southern Biotech, Birmingham, AL, USA) was used for immunoblotting.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary antibody (anti-mouse CW800) and DNA dye Draq5 (Abcam, Cambridge, UK) were diluted 1/10,000 in blocking buffer and incubated for 1 h at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CW800</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Draq5</div><div>suggested: (Biostatus Cat# DR50050, RRID:AB_2314341)</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">Caco-2, Vero E6 and HEK293T cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) containing 10% fetal calf serum (Biochrom, Berlin, Germany), penicillin and streptomycin (100μg/ml; Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco-2</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">HEK293T cells were transfected with X-tremeGENE HP (Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland) following the manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</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">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">To generate a construct for co-expressing mCherry and SARS-CoV-2 main protease (3CLpro), a fragment encoding 3CLpro was first obtained as a double-stranded DNA fragment (gBlock; IDT, San José, CA, USA) and cloned into pcDNA3.1(−) via unique NheI/NotI restriction sites.</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 3CLpro encoding vector was then linearized 5’ of the 3CLpro start codon via NheI and the mCherry-P2A fragment was inserted via Gibson Assembly, hence yielding a vector encoding mCherry-P2A-3CLpro.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>mCherry-P2A-3CLpro</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">Paired-end sequencing of 2×150bp was performed at GeneWiz Inc. using an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 instrument (Illumina, San Diego CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GeneWiz</div><div>suggested: (GENEWIZ, RRID:SCR_003177)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Live-cell experiments were performed on a Nikon Ti inverted microscope, equipped with a CSU-22 Yokogawa confocal spinning disc slider (Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), a 60× Plan Apo NA 1.4 objective lens (Nikon), a Hamamatsu C9100-02 EMCCD camera (Hamamatsu Photonics, Hamamatsu, Japan), and the Volocity software (PerkinElmer; Waltham, MA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Volocity</div><div>suggested: (Volocity 3D Image Analysis Software, RRID:SCR_002668)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Microscopic images were evaluated with ImageJ software (NIH, Bethesda, MA, USA).</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">For read alignment, the STAR software was used with default settings (Dobin et al, 2013).</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">Subsequently, BAM files were split by their reference using the SAMtools software suite (Li et al, 2009) and counted separately using the featureCounts function from the Subread package (Liao et al, 2019).</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><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">Overrepresented GO terms were inferred using the ‘goana’ and ‘topGO’ function from the limma package (Ritchie et al, 2015).</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">The MATLAB toolbox PottersWheel was used for model fitting (Maiwald & Timmer, 2008).</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 this end, the following six model simplifications were tested: (1) description of A turnover by one turnover parameter instead of separate parameters for synthesis and degradation of A (Variant 4.0.1), (2) description of the synthesis of A by mass-action instead of Michaelis-Menten (MM) kinetics (Variant 4.0.2), (3) mass-action instead of MM-kinetics for describing synthesis of P (Variant 4.0.3), (4) mass-action kinetics for describing synthesis and degradation of A by single turnover parameter (Variant 4.0.4), (5) single parameter for describing turnover of A and mass-action instead of MM-kinetics for synthesis of P (Variant 4.0.5), (6) mass-action kinetics for synthesis of A as well as P.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Variant</div><div>suggested: (VARIANT, RRID:SCR_005194)</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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      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:
      Both the RBD as an antigen and cGAMP as an adjuvant offer promising advantages, but each also possesses significant limitations related to ineffective delivery and poor localization within immune compartments. Here, we demonstrated that an injectable, self-assembled PNP hydrogel system simultaneously helps overcome delivery challenges posed by RBD and cGAMP, and that co-administration of these agents in this easily produced vaccine format leads to significant and functionally important increases in immunogenicity. While the importance of targeting the RBD is illustrated by the high fraction of neutralizing antibodies that target the RBD, we and others have now shown that engineering of delivery systems for the protein domain or its multimerization are required to generate appreciable anti-RBD antibody responses in vaccination.[8, 30, 51] For example, we have shown previously that delivery of subunit vaccines from a PNP hydrogel depot improves the humoral response compared to a dose-matched bolus control likely because prolonged antigen release better mimics the kinetics of antigen exposure occurring during a natural infection.[29, 30] A brief literature search showed that IC50 values from neutralization studies following immunization with our cGAMP hydrogel vaccine greatly exceeded the FDA “high titer” mark and exceeded IC50 values for both Spike- and RBD-encoding mRNA vaccines in mice. It is important to note that there were differences in dosing, timelines, and neutralizati...

      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">NCT03172936</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">Study of the Safety and Efficacy of MIW815 With PDR001 in Pa…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT03937141</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">Efficacy and Safety Trial of ADU-S100 and Pembrolizumab in H…</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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      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">Then, GISAID pipeline used this cleaned data to create MSA file of 961,734 sequences using MAFFT (26) with hCoV-19/Wuhan/WIV04/2019 (EPI_ISL_402124; GenBank: MN996527) used as reference (27).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GISAID</div><div>suggested: (GISAID, RRID:SCR_018279)</div></div><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">Visualization of in-frame deletions on proteins’ 3-dimensional (3D) structures: We used PyMol (32), and Coronavirus3D (33) for studying and visualization of IFDs in the context of protein 3-dimensional structure (3D).</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Information on protein domain boundaries was based on PDB (https://www.rcsb.org/) structures when available or on UniProt and the literature (Table S4).</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">Visualization of in-frame deletions on alignment file: We extracted one representative genome for each of the most frequent IFDs (seen in multiple genomes) positioned on protein RDRs from the GISAID MSA file with no gaps in the reference using an in-house Python script and visualized it using R packages ggmsa and Biostrings and counted the number of genomes harboring each type of IFD.</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>Biostrings</div><div>suggested: (Biostrings, RRID:SCR_016949)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used Circos R package to draw the heatmap of recurrence/co-occurrence of top IFDs in PANGO lineage arranges in the order that approximately reflects the evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2 lineages.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Circos</div><div>suggested: (Circos, RRID:SCR_011798)</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">IRB: The study was approved by Hackensack Meridian Health Institutional Review Board (IRB).</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">Population sampling and screening of SARS-CoV-2: SARS-CoV-2 positive swabs collected from seven HMH network hospitals were shipped to CDI on a weekly basis and stored at −80°C. 1,404 swabs collected during the same time frame as the vaccinated samples were randomly selected and subjected to a molecular beacon-based real-time asymmetric PCR and melting curve analysis to identify the SARS-CoV-2 E484K/Q and N501Y mutations, as previously described (10).</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">Final libraries were quantified using fluorescent-based assays including PicoGreen (Life Technologies), Qubit Fluorometer (Invitrogen), and Fragment Analyzer (Advanced Analytics).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PicoGreen</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Processed read pairs were then aligned to the SARS-CoV-2 reference genome, using BWA-MEM v0.7.17 (35) and only read pairs with at least one alignment spanning a minimum of 50 bp in the reference were kept.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><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">Next, read pairs that did not contain a single 19bp seed k-mer in common with the SARS-CoV-2 genome reference (NC_045512.2) were discarded and adapter sequences and low-quality bases (Q < 20) were trimmed from the 3’ end of the remaining reads, using Cutadapt v2.10 (34).</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">Processed reads pairs were then merged using NGmerge v0.2 (36), allowing for dovetailed alignments.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NGmerge</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree was constructed using IQ-TREE v2.1.2 (39) with automatic model selection and 1000-bootstrap replicates.</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></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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      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: Specimen collection and processing: After IRB approval, individuals over the age of 18 admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a positive, PCR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test, who provided informed consent themselves or through an appropriate surrogate, were enrolled 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">Following another three washes, plates were incubated for one hour with 100 µL/well of 1 µg/mL horseradish peroxidase conjugated goat anti-human IgG antibody, F(ab′)2 (Chemicon) in blocking buffer prior to development with 3,3’,5,5’-Tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) solution (Fisher).</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">Anti-Spike Antibody Quantification by ELISA: Anti-Spike IgG concentration in serum samples was determined utilizing an ELISA assay as described [37, 38].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Spike IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A four-parameter logistic regression of the multi-concentration standard curve was obtained using CR3022, a recombinant human anti-SARS-CoV-RBD IgG antibody, with a known affinity to the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 (CR3022 antibody, Creative Biolabs #MRO-1214LC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CR3022</div><div>suggested: (Imported from the IEDB Cat# CR3022, RRID:AB_2848080)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-RBD IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-HLA Antibody Quantification: The presence of HLA Class I and Class II antibodies was measured using the FlowPRA™ Screening assay (One Lambda, A Thermo Fisher Scientific Brand), following manufacturer’s recommendation.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-HLA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Class II</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Following the manufacturer’s recommended protocol, plasma samples were diluted five to ten times in Tris-Buffered Saline (TBS) containing 3% BSA (w/v) before added into the microtiter plate wells containing the PAI-1 capture antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PAI-1 capture antibodies.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing away the unbound fraction of plasma samples, the amount of PAI-1 captured in the wells was quantified after sequential binding, washing, incubation of primary antibody against PAI-1, incubation of the secondary antibody-HRP conjugate and development utilizing a TMB substrate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PAI-1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-HRP</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">The NTD sequence was synthesized (Twist Bioscience) and cloned into pMCSG53 [35], yielding pMCSG53-N-NTD (available through BEI Resources, NR-52428).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMCSG53</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_167255)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMCSG53-N-NTD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The CTD sequence was synthesized (Bio Basic) and cloned into pET11a (Novagen), yielding pET11a-N-CTD (available through BEI Resources, NR-52434).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pET11a</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_105501)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pET11a-N-CTD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, amino acids 1-412), pET-28a(+) containing the entire Wuhan-Hu-1 Nucleocapsid open reading frame was obtained from BEI Resources (NIAID, NIH, Catalog # NR-53507) and transformed into E. coli Rosetta-1 cells (Novagen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pET-28a(+ )</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">Barcode sequences were trimmed from aligned reads and consensus sequence determined using iVar v1.2.2 [33] with a minimum alignment depth of 10 reads and minimum base quality of 20, and a consensus frequency threshold of 0 (i.e. majority base as the consensus).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>iVar</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Coated plates were washed three times with 250 µL of wash buffer (1x PBS with 0.5% Tween-20) using a Thermo Fisher Wellwash™</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fisher Wellwash™</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Scientific Wellwash Wellwash, RRID:SCR_020569)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phylogenetic Analysis: Consensus sequences for all longitudinal samples from each participant were aligned using MAFFT v7.453 software and manually edited using MEGA v6.06.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MEGA</div><div>suggested: (Mega BLAST, RRID:SCR_011920)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Maximum Likelihood (ML) phylogeny with all consensus sequences were inferred with IQ-Tree v2.0.5 using its ModelFinder function before each analysis to estimate the nucleotide substitution model best-fitted for each dataset by means of Bayesian information criterion (BIC).</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">We used QuasiRecomb [40] to perform a probabilistic inference of the viral haplotypes per gene present in each viral population.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>QuasiRecomb</div><div>suggested: (QuasiRecomb, RRID:SCR_008812)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After haplotype reconstruction, we discarded sequences with less than 1% frequency of the reads to avoid including sequencing errors and we calculated the pairwise genetic distance between every haplotype and the most predominant haplotype using DistanceCalculator in biopython 1.74.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DistanceCalculator</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">To obtain the number of nonsynonymous substitutions per non-synonymous site (dN) and the number of synonymous substitutions per synonymous site (dS), we followed a similar approach using CodonSeq and cal_dn_ds with the NG86 method from biopython 1.74.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CodonSeq</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All calculations were performed using in-house scripts in python 3.8 (available upon request).</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">Both PCA and agglomerative hierarchical clustering were performed using FactoMineR package and factoextra was used for visualization of the clustering results.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FactoMineR</div><div>suggested: (FactoMineR, RRID:SCR_014602)</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:
      Despite its strengths, this study has several limitations. This is a single center study and as such our population may be different from the general population. That said, during this phase of the pandemic, we were a tertiary referral hospital that continued to accept patients from both our usual catchment area but also referrals in from other hospitals around the Chicagoland area. The study included the first wave of the pandemic and as such there was significant variability in the therapies that were given to the participants. That said, few of the participants received therapies that were subsequently found to be clinically beneficial. As such, the experience reflects the natural history of illness with general supportive measures. Nevertheless, continued exploration of the trends observed here in larger, multi-institutional cohorts is required. Lastly, the study did not include a non-hospitalized control group for comparison and utility of the identified markers to predict hospitalization or other outcomes cannot be assessed. In sum, this study found that the 4C mortality score and LDH levels at the time of admission were predictive of admission to the ICU and should be examined in larger cohorts for use in clinical risk management. Validation of a novel score based on BMI, lymphocyte count, and neutrophil count on admission may yield a useful tool for predicting outcomes of hospitalized patients. While not assessed in this study, the role of these factors and others 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.
      • 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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    1. sciscore 08 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.451089: (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">Phylogenetic analysis and mutation spectra calculation: The codon alignments of ORFs were performed based on amino acid sequences translated by TranslatorX29 and MAFFT v7.47130, and further concatenated by AMAS31 and refined with visual check.</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">Maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis based on the whole coding regions was conducted by using IQ-TREE v2.0.332 with GTR+FO+R10 substitution model and 1,000 bootstrap replicates.</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">Neighbor-Joining phylogeny was obtained in MEGA X33, which allows such analysis on synonymous sties, with 1,000 bootstrap replicates.</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></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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    1. sciscore 08 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259794: (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 ethical guidelines were followed according to the Helsinki Declaration and design and protocols was determined exempt by 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: 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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259758: (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">We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to construct a prefecture-specific random intercept to evaluate the effect of regional heterogeneity.</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 analysis had several limitations. First, we examined data solely from Japan; thus, it is not appropriate to generalize our results globally. Nevertheless, it is easy to imagine that, even in other countries, there would be differences in health policies among local authorities and that they might have an impact on the management of COVID-19 cases. Second, we could not include other confounding factors, such as human resources and variance of SARS-CoV-2; these aspects should be addressed in future studies. In conclusion, our analysis revealed a possible association between prefecture and an increased/decreased risk of severe COVID-19 infection at the time of admission. In addition, the number of beds secured for COVID-19 patients in each prefecture is not a single cause of such heterogeneity; therefore, other factors could be significant for the management of COVID-19 cases in Japan. Countermeasures against COVID-19 will be more appropriate if we take these insights into consideration.

      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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    1. sciscore 08 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.30.21259750: (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">We are conducting an ongoing literature search in the WHO Covid-19 Database, LitCovid, medRxiv, and Google Scholar for SARS-CoV-2 for keywords and associated synonyms.</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:
      Strengths and limitations of the study: We conducted a comprehensive search of the literature on vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2, also including studies that had not yet undergone peer review. We also accounted for the reporting quality of included primary studies. However, we may have missed some relevant studies and recognise that several studies may have been published after December 2020, which was the end date for the search. For example, there may now be more high quality cohort studies as much of the early evidence, as identified in this review, constituted single case studies. The aim of this review was to assess the evidence for vertical transmission and we did not specifically address maternal and fetal outcomes as a primary outcome measure. We did not systematically search for studies reporting this in our review and any conclusions around maternal and fetal outcomes should be interpreted with caution. The definition of vertical transmission varied across studies, with many not reporting the definition of vertical transmission used in the study. It should also be noted that all studies were conducted in the hospital setting, therefore this review does not provide evidence regarding transmission in the out-of-hospital setting. It is also well known that sample contamination is a hazard of performing PCR testing which is sufficiently sensitive to detect very low concentrations of nucleic acids; for example, to avoid contamination, a study of vertical 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.
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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">IACUC: The protocol was approved by the Animal Welfare Committee of Flinders University and carried out in strict accordance with the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes (2013)</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">Mouse Immunisation Protocol: Female, BALB/c and C57BL/6 (BL6) mice (6-10 weeks old) were supplied by the central animal facility of Flinders University.</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">Lung lesions were scored by a board-certified veterinary pathologist blinded to the study groups as follows: Alveolar (ALV) score: 1 = focal, 2 = multifocal, 3 = multifocal to coalescing, 4 = majority of section infiltrated by leukocytes; Perivascular cuffing (PVC) score: 1 = 1 layer of leukocytes surrounding blood vessel, 2 = 2-5 layers, 3 = 6 – 10 layers, 4 = greater than 10 cells thick; Interstitial Pneumonia (IP) score: 1 = alveolar septa thickened by 1 leukocyte, 2 = 2 leukocytes thick, 3 = 3 leukocytes, 4 = 4 leukocytes.</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 blocking, 100 μl of diluted serum samples were added followed by biotinylated anti-mouse IgG (Sigma-Aldrich), IgG1, IgG2a/c, IgG2b, IgG3 and IgM antibodies (all from Abcam) with horseradish peroxidase(HRP)-conjugated Streptavidin (BD Biosciences) for 1 hour (h).</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG2b , IgG3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, single-cell suspensions were prepared from spleens of mice and plated in Millipore MultiScreen-HA 96-well filter plates (Millipore) pre-coated with anti-mouse IL-2, IL-4, IL-17 or IFN-γ antibodies overnight at 4°C and blocked by RPMI-1640 containing 10% FBS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IL-17</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Wells were washed and incubated with biotinylated labelled anti-mouse IL-2, IL-4, IL-17 or IFN-γ antibody at room temperature (RT).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IL-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IL-4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IFN-γ</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The following day, plates were washed 5 times with 0.05% PBST, and IgG antibodies were detected using horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-ferret polyclonal IgG detection antibody (Abcam, Cambridge, UK) at a 1:4,000 dilution for a 90 min incubation at 37°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-ferret polyclonal IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The lung sections were blocked with 5% horse serum in PBS for 1 h at RT, incubated with SARS-CoV-2 Nucleoprotein polyclonal antibody at 1:500 dilution (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) overnight at 4°C, and then incubated with biotinylated goat-antibody Rabbit IgG H&L (Abcam, Waltham, MA, USA) at 1:1000 dilution for 1 h at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Rabbit 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">Recombinant baculovirus was expanded in Sf9 cells to P3 and then used for infection of High Five cells for protein expression.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sf9</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 604328/p700_Sf9, RRID:CVCL_0549)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lentiviral particles pseudotyped with SARS-COV2 Spike envelope were produced by co-transfecting HEK 293T cells with a GFP encoding 3rd generation lentiviral plasmid HRSIN-CSGW (a gift from Camille Frecha [26]), psPAX2 and plasmid expressing codon optimized but C-terminal truncated SARS COV2 S protein (pCG1-SARS-2-S Delta18 [27], herein Spike Delta18) courtesy of Professor Stefan Polhman using polyethylenimine as described previously [25].</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">Virus-serum was then added onto ACE2-HEK 293T cells seeded at 2,500 cells per well in a 384-well tissue culture plate a day before.</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">Determination of Virus Titres in Ferret Nasal Washes: Nasal washes were titrated in quadruplicates in Vero E6 cells.</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">Mouse Immunisation Protocol: Female, BALB/c and C57BL/6 (BL6) mice (6-10 weeks old) were supplied by the central animal facility of Flinders University.</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><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">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 insect cell codon-optimised expression cassette was cloned into pFASTBac1, and baculovirus was generated following standard Bac-to-Bac</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pFASTBac1</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_1956)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The hACE2 open reading frame (Addgene# 1786) was cloned into a 3rd generation lentiviral expression vector pRRLSIN.cPPT.PGK-GFP.WPRE (Addgene# 122053), and clonal HEK 293T cells stably expressing ACE2 were generated by lentiviral transductions as described previously [25], followed by single cell sorting into 50% HEK 293T conditioned media (media conditioned from 50% confluent HEK 293T cultures)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pRRLSIN.cPPT.PGK-GFP.WPRE</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12252)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lentiviral particles pseudotyped with SARS-COV2 Spike envelope were produced by co-transfecting HEK 293T cells with a GFP encoding 3rd generation lentiviral plasmid HRSIN-CSGW (a gift from Camille Frecha [26]), psPAX2 and plasmid expressing codon optimized but C-terminal truncated SARS COV2 S protein (pCG1-SARS-2-S Delta18 [27], herein Spike Delta18) courtesy of Professor Stefan Polhman using polyethylenimine as described previously [25].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HRSIN-CSGW</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>pCG1-SARS-2-S</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 docked model was optimized using AMBER99SB-ILDN force field in Gromacs2020 (https://www.gromacs.org/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://www.gromacs.org/</div><div>suggested: (GROMACS, RRID:SCR_014565)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: GraphPad Prism 8.3.1 for Windows was used for drawing graphs and statistical analysis (GraphPad 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><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 limitation of the current study was that ferrets do not exhibit weight loss or other signs of SARS-CoV-2 clinical infection [51], with no animal models fully reproducing the features of severe SARS-CoV-2 clinical infection in humans. Ongoing studies are testing our Covax-19 vaccine in other species including hamsters and non-human primates to see whether the effects of the vaccine on inhibition of nasal virus replication extends to other species. The current study also only assessed protection soon after immunisation and it will also be important to assess the durability of vaccine protection. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a significant evolving global health crisis. The key to overcoming the pandemic lies in the development of an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 that ideally prevents transmission as well as serious disease. Recombinant protein-based approaches to COVID-19 offer benefits over other technologies including a 40-year record of safety and effectiveness including in very young infants, together with reliable large scale manufacture and high stability under typical refrigerated conditions [52]. By contrast, other available technologies, including nucleic acid and adenoviral vector platforms have a high level of reactogenicity and pose cold chain and other distribution challenges [53, 54]. This study showed that an Advax-SM adjuvanted rSp vaccine (Covax-19 vaccine) when administered as two sequential intramuscular doses several weeks apart induc...

      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: 14 In the registry, the unique national identification number given to all citizens upon birth or immigration was used to link vital sources of information (Fig. 1): An institutional review board was conducted.</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:
      Strengths and limitations of study: Among several strengths of the current study, sample size provided by the linkage of nationwide registers and avoidance of a selection bias, which is often encountered in hospital-based studies, are prominent. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large study to determine socioeconomic characteristics and country of origin as risk factors of SARS-CoV2-infection across the range of severity in children and adolescents. The coverage of this nationwide study was high, likely capturing the majority of all infected, as suggested by seroprevalence studies indicating that the majority of cases in our country were detected by PCR.15 However, the availability of testing was limited during the first months of the pandemic. This may have resulted in a higher proportion of undetected cases during the first period, particularly among children and adolescents. Furthermore, the linkage to national diagnosis registers provides trustable detection of relevant chronic comorbidities. A recording of overweight/obesity was not available, and this factor has also been associated with covid-19 severity in children and adolescents.9, 10, 13 Risk factors for disease severity may be biased if chronic disease were part of the test criteria, which to some extent occurred during the early phases of the pandemic. Comorbidity and young age would likely lower the threshold for hospital admission, potentially inflating the observed associations. Country of origin...

      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">DH was blinded to the sample type.</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">Consent: Upon downloading the Welltory app, users provide informed consent for their anonymized data to be used by the company for internal research purposes if such research can help provide users with better services or improve the app’s functionality.</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

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      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">Controls restraint to surface residues were generated by calculating the solvent accessible surface area of each residue within the Spike protein (using the Biopython SASA module).</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">/ Pathogen Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit (Life Technologies Corp.), followed by automated reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) of viral sequences, DNA library preparation (including enzymatic shearing, adapter ligation, purification, normalization), DNA template preparation, and sequencing on the automated Genexus™ Integrated Sequencer (Life Technologies Corp.) with the Genexus™ Software version 6.2.1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Genexus™</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 study has a number of key limitations. First, the list of B cell and T cell epitopes in the Spike (S) glycoprotein antigen studied here may not be exhaustive as they are based on curation of studies deposited in the immune epitope database (IEDB) as of June 10, 2021 (https://www.iedb.org/). The immunologic analysis presented in this study consequently has to be updated regularly as more evidence emerges regarding the exhaustive T cell and B cell epitopes presented by the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen and their neutralization potential in the human population. Similarly, the SARS-CoV-2 genomes analyzed herein were deposited in the global initiative on sharing avian influenza data (GISAID) initiative as of June 10, 2021 (https://www.gisaid.org/). Despite having over 1 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes at the time of this analysis, GISAID still represents less than 0.60% of the 175 million COVID-19 cases reported worldwide as of June 10, 2021, thus providing only a partial representation of the genomic evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Finally, we consider any mutation away from the wild-type genomic sequence of known immunogenic epitopes as deleterious to their immunogenicity. While it is possible that mutations in the Spike protein sequence result in new immunogenic epitopes, a scan of 469,649 unique mutated peptides identified from the SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals that only 8 of these peptides match a previously defined T cell epitopes (from IEDB), from within the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 genomes (Ta...

      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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    1. sciscore 07 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259897: (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">SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels were tested on venous or capillary blood samples using an ELISA detecting anti-trimeric spike IgG developed by the University of Oxford34,46.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-trimeric spike 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">After this, it used a commercialised CE-marked version of the assay, the Thermo Fisher OmniPATH 384 Combi SARS-CoV-2 IgG ELISA (Thermo Fisher Scientific), with the same antigen and colorimetric detection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fisher OmniPATH</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:
      Study limitations include the fact that we only measured anti-spike IgG using a single assay; seronegative non-responders in Class 3 might have antibodies detected using other assays or other target antigens. We did not measure neutralizing antibodies or T cell responses; however, neutralizing antibody responses are strongly correlated (Spearman ρ=0.87) with anti-spike binding antibodies following infection as previously reported45. This community survey had visits scheduled independent of infection or symptom status, so we could not precisely identify the start of infection or symptom onset; we therefore also incorporated positives from the national testing programme (targeting symptomatic infections) and used the first swab positive test and latent class models to indirectly estimate the start of infection. Similarly, we were not able to model antibody trajectories from each participant’s maximum levels since antibody data were collected monthly. However, we chose a starting point that was close to but slightly after the peak IgG level; while this could slightly underestimate peak IgG levels, the half-life will be unbiasedly estimated if the assumption of exponential decline is correct. Re-infections were rare, with only 92 (0.5%) participants with antibody data having potential re-infections >120 days after their first infection episode (Figure S1). Most had only one antibody result, so it was impossible to investigate any boosting of antibody levels following re-infection...

      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">ISRCTN21086382</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.
      • 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: Reagents: Vero E6 cells (CRL-1586, Resource Research Identifier (RRID): CVCL0574) were purchased from American Tissue Type 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><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>

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      <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">Rabbit anti-NP SARS-CoV-2 antibody R001 (40143-R001, RRID Number: AB_2827974), R004 (40143-R004, RRID Number: AB_2827975), R019 (40143-R019, RRID Number: AB_2827973), and R040 (40143-R040, RRID Number: AB_2827976) was purchased from Sino Biological and mouse anti-NP MAb 1C7C7 was provided by Dr. Tomas Moran and purchased from Leinco (LT7000).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-NP SARS-CoV-2</div><div>detected: (Sino Biological Cat# 40143-R019, RRID:AB_2827973)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div></div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>R040</div><div>suggested: (Sino Biological Cat# 40143-R040, RRID:AB_2827976)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-NP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IgG antibodies R001, R004, R019, R040 were raised against recombinant SARS-CoV nucleocapsid phosphoprotein (NP (Sino Biological, 0143-V08B) and expressed in HEK293 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>R019 , R040 were raised against recombinant SARS-CoV nucleocapsid phosphoprotein ( NP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>0143-V08B</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then antigen-antibody complexes were detected using appropriate anti species HRP-conjugates and West Femto substrate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti species HRP-conjugates</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">IgG antibodies R001, R004, R019, R040 were raised against recombinant SARS-CoV nucleocapsid phosphoprotein (NP (Sino Biological, 0143-V08B) and expressed in HEK293 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300192/p777_HEK293, RRID:CVCL_0045)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Preparation of Viral Lysates and Tissue Culture Supernatant (TCS) Production: Vero-E6 cells were plated in 12-well plates at 450 000 cells/well in 1.25 mL of growth media.</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">PCR fragments were digested with SacI and SmaI and cloned into SacI- and SmaI-digested pCAGGS plasmid containing a C-terminal HA epitope tag (pCAGGS NP-HA) 20 uL of 15,000 Vero E6 cells per well was seeded into half-area 96-well plates and incubated O/N at 37°C, 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">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">PCR fragments were digested with SacI and SmaI and cloned into SacI- and SmaI-digested pCAGGS plasmid containing a C-terminal HA epitope tag (pCAGGS NP-HA) 20 uL of 15,000 Vero E6 cells per well was seeded into half-area 96-well plates and incubated O/N at 37°C, 5% CO2.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A plasmid encoding for SARS-CoV-2 NP (pCAGGS NP-HA) was transfected into the cells using Lipofectamine 2000 according to manufacturer’s recommendations (starting concentration 100 ng of plasmid and two-fold serial dilutions).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCAGGS NP-HA</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 custom labeling of MAbs was performed by Columbia Biosciences.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Columbia Biosciences</div><div>suggested: (Columbia Biosciences Corporation, RRID:SCR_004347)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Nucleotide sequences were translated to amino acid sequences using ExPASY online software 31 and the codon frame that contained the full NP was copied to ClustalO (1.2.4)32 for multiple sequence alignment.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><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">Graphpad Prism V9.1.0 was used to generate all graphs.</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: 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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    1. sciscore 07 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259870: (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">Data and all relevant code is available at GitHub: https://github.com/ckadelka/COVID19-CDC-allocation-evaluation and will be stored in the Zenodo repository https://doi.org/XXX upon acceptance.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Zenodo</div><div>suggested: (ZENODO, RRID:SCR_004129)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Model implementation and outcomes: The model is implemented in Python 3.8 using the open source JIT compiler numba for improved run time.</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:
      One limitation of this study is the simplifying assumption that all sub-populations exhibit the same level of vaccine hesitancy, and that hesitancy does not change over time. Incorporating these additional dynamic elements into the model would improve the accuracy of the results, but would significantly increase model complexity. Further limitations stem from uncertainties regarding key model parameters. Rates of contact between individuals of different age groups were based on extensive pre-pandemic survey work in eight European countries and inferred for the United States [18, 19]. In the absence of data, we assumed that contacts within a group in a congested living situation occur at double the rate of the same age group not living in congested conditions, and the additional contacts are with other individuals in the same congested living situation. Model results depend strongly on the contact matrix, and better information about contact rates, especially during the pandemic, could improve the accuracy of model predictions. The contagiousness of asymptomatic as well as vaccinated individuals is still not well understood. The model results were however robust to uncertainty in these parameters (table S4): variation in both phase assignments and the overall shape of the Pareto frontier were small. We did not consider reinfections in our model. Repeated infections have been reported in the literature [29], but they seem rare and a recent study suggests prolonged immunity in m...

      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">Consent: Recruitment was opportunistic and written informed consent was obtained before any study procedures were undertaken.</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">Detection and quantification of human and SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA by real-time polymerase chain reaction and viral cultures: Laboratory analyses were performed blinded to study group.</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 (African Green monkey kidney) cells were used to culture virus from any positive/suspected positive viral RNA sample.</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">The statistical models were fitted in SAS and Prism 7 (GraphPad Inc, 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></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 some notable strengths and limitations. Strengths include the ‘real-world’ setting, a standardised sampling strategy, concurrent air and surface sampling, collection of patient data and nasopharyngeal samples to understand the clinical context, and the use of human genetic material as a control. Finally, embedding the evaluation within the RECOVERY-Recovery Support randomised controlled trial helped to minimise selection bias. Limitations include the lack of serial sampling with findings representing a ‘snap shot’ picture, potential cross-contamination by other infected patients in cohorted areas, no particle size fractionation or concentration measurement (hence not able to differentiate between droplets and aerosols), air volume sampled only a small fraction of the total room air, and challenges interpreting the significance of samples with low viral loads. The small group sizes risk the study being underpowered with confounding chance observations and larger studies are needed to develop the evidence-base needed to reliably inform pragmatic infection prevention control measures around the use of CPAP/HFNO.

      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">ISRCTN66726260</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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.07.02.21259802: (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">IACUC: Ethical Statement: Part of study involving samples from São Paulo city was approved by Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas ethical committee.<br>IRB: The study involving samples from Belo Horizonte was approved by the UFMG Ethics Committee, CAAE-35074720.3.0000.5149. 2.2.</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">Sequence Analyses: Assembling of Sanger contigs were performed with the GeneStudio software [19].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GeneStudio</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">These sequences were aligned by the MAFFT tool [20,21] with default parameters: 0 “Offset”, 1.53 “gap open penalty”, 0 “Maximum number of iterative refinements”.</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">Benchling platform[22] and AliView software [23] were used for visualization of alignments.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Benchling</div><div>suggested: (Benchling, RRID:SCR_013955)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AliView</div><div>suggested: (AliView, RRID:SCR_002780)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Stacked Bar Plots were constructed with the R ggplot2 package.</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">Sequencing analysis was performed on Torrent server with IRMA plugin for read assembly and SnpEff for variant annotation.</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></table>

      Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      When tailored to focus in genomic regions bearing signature mutations, the sequence length limitation of the Sanger sequencing strategy ceases to be a problem and become an advantage, as a much larger number of samples can be sequenced in a shorter period of time. The data present here showed that the method was able to accurately detect the appearance of the P.1 VOC in two of the largest Brazilian cities and was also able to unveil the strong capacity of the P.1 variant to disseminate and quickly replace the P.2 variant, which was prevalent lineage in both cities. Although beyond the scope of this study, a better understanding of the molecular mechanism behind the increased dissemination capacity as well as the implications of the spreading of distinct variants regarding vaccination and other methods for the control of the pandemic are certainly necessary. Further efforts towards mitigation of new COVID-19 waves may include studies that rely on a broad implementation of Sanger sequencing genotyping strategy such as the one described here.

      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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    1. sciscore 07 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259629: (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">Statistical analysis: We conducted a spatial agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis (unsupervised machine learning) to detect clusters of spatial (dis)similarities in COVID-19 mitigating factors in GeoDa™ version 1.18 software.10 Furthermore, we determined difference in prevalence of VOCs across the clusters.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GeoDa™</div><div>suggested: (GeoDa, RRID:SCR_018559)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To visualize the relationship between the prevalence of VOC, vaccine uptake and countermeasures, bivariate choropleth maps were generated in QGIS™ version 3.12.1 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>QGIS™</div><div>suggested: (QGIS, RRID:SCR_018507)</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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21258780: (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: Protocols for collection, qPCR testing, and whole genome sequencing were approved by the Baylor College of Medicine Institutional Review Board (H-47423).</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 reaction mixes and the thermocycler conditions were performed according to the Swift Normalase® Amplicon Panels (SNAP) Workflow.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SNAP</div><div>suggested: (SNAP, RRID:SCR_007936)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Swift amplicon data analysis: Swift amplicon data were analyzed using Swift Biosciences Sarscov2 analysis pipeline (https://github.com/swiftbiosciences/sarscov2analysis_docker) with minimum read coverage depth of 3.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Swift Biosciences</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The GATK variants were next filtered with allele fraction >=80, and min read depth 30x12,13.</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">Global alignment of 334 sequences including the sequences from the current study was done using MAFFT v7.48017.</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">Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree with boot strap (5,000) was generated using IQ-Tree V2.1.218,19.</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">Annotation and visualization of the tree was carried out by using FigTree v1.4.4 (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FigTree</div><div>suggested: (FigTree, RRID:SCR_008515)</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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    1. sciscore 07 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259621: (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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Nevertheless, this study had several limitations. Not all of the topics identified a single theme consistently. Associations with participant characteristics could be driven or biased by idiosyncratic texts. We used a convenience sample that, though heterogeneous, was unrepresentative of the UK population and, further, respondents to the free-text question were biased towards the highly educated. Response biases could also have generated bias in the topic regression results. As we focused on topics offered spontaneously by respondents, a participant not writing about a particular topic does not necessarily imply that the participant does not agree with its sentiment, though our assumptions is that the proportion of text devoted to a topic is related to its perceived importance. Finally, while we included a wide set of predictors in our structural topic models, many relevant factors were unobserved. Associations may be biased by unobserved confounding.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259741: (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 approval was obtained from the Singhealth Institutional Review Board (CIRB Ref No.: 2020/2648) with a waiver for informed consent.<br>Consent: Ethics approval was obtained from the Singhealth Institutional Review Board (CIRB Ref No.: 2020/2648) with a waiver for 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">Pregnant and lactating women over 21 years of age, attending outpatient clinics or admitted to the hospital were invited to participate in an anonymous, online survey from 1st March to 31st May 2021.</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 using SPSS version 19.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, 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:
      A limitation of our study is the cross-sectional nature and the short study period of 3 months. Since conducting our survey, government recommendations regarding vaccination in these groups of women have evolved, with an emphasis that it is safe and recommended. As such, perceptions of pregnant and lactating women may have also changed. However, we believe that our results are still valid in informing educational strategies in women who are unsure or unwilling to take the vaccine despite changes in recommendations. In addition, we measured vaccine acceptance via participant report, and not actual vaccination rates. Reported intent may not translate into actual behavior on vaccination,(28) and whether addressing safety concerns would be adequate in increasing vaccine uptake remains to be determined. To our knowledge, this is the first survey on COVID-19 vaccine perceptions in pregnant and lactating women in Singapore. Our study is timely in informing education programs and vaccination efforts in these groups to design a targeted action plan. Based on our results, an educational brochure is currently being prepared to better inform pregnant women about COVID-19 vaccination. We also propose the use of other platforms such as mass media and social media to help raise awareness and knowledge to aid improve the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine. With the expansion of the local vaccination program to pregnant and lactating women, it is important for educational messages to be indiv...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259675: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      This study had one main limitation, non-participation bias due to the data collection method used (i.e., web-based, and random digit dialling). To minimize its effect, the samples were weighted using the 2016 Census to ensure representativeness of the Saskatchewan population. As well, this study has some strengths. The strength of evidence from this study is robust because of the plurality of analytical methods used. The findings from CART further corroborate the results from the multinomial regression, hence the associations reported were less likely due to chance. As far as we know, no previous published research has investigated the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intention in Saskatchewan. This study provides more insights to guide stakeholders in the implementation of current COVID-19 vaccination strategies. Since issues of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and rejection in Saskatchewan can change over time, continuous data collection systems should be introduced.

      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 10.1101/2021.07.03.450989: (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">Database Search: The generated raw files were processed by the Proteome Discoverer software (Thermo</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Proteome Discoverer</div><div>suggested: (Proteome Discoverer, RRID:SCR_014477)</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 of the study: While our study highlights the potential importance of ERAP1 allotypes in immune response variability between individuals, it has some important limitations that need to be taken into account when interpreting results. The in vitro nature of the digestions may not be an optimal surrogate for cellular antigen processing, either due to missing components (such as other peptidases) or due to cellular compartmentalization. HLA-restriction is only indirectly simulated and thus does not take into account kinetic components of peptide competition for binding inside the ER. Furthermore, although antigenic peptide destruction is evident when comparing the two reaction conditions, it is difficult to analyze statistically without an explicit set of 9mer peptides in the initial reaction. Finally, although our approach of concurrently analyzing hundreds of peptide-trimming reactions proved invaluable in identifying difference between trimming patterns of ERAP1 allotypes, the number of peptides used was not sufficient to allow for the explicit identification of sequence motifs in trimming preferences. The latter however may not be readily feasible given the large substrate cavity of ERAP1 that allows for a complex landscape of peptide-enzyme interactions30. Cytotoxic responses after vaccination – different response depending on ERAP1 allotype?: Although vaccines developed for COVID-19 had as a primary goal the induction of robust antibody responses, the generation...

      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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      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 complied with all relevant ethical regulations and has been approved by the Barwon Health Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref HREC 20/56) and all participants gave their informed consent.<br>Consent: The study complied with all relevant ethical regulations and has been approved by the Barwon Health Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref HREC 20/56) and all participants gave their 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">This sample consisted of the supernatant from a 48 hour third passage of SARS-CoV-2 virus in Vero E6 cells and kindly supplied by the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness.</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">Mapping of the reads was performed by TMAP software included in the Ion torrent Server software suite 5.10.148.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TMAP</div><div>suggested: (TMAP, RRID:SCR_000687)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Amplicons were mapped to the latest RefSeq human transcript of human genome hg19 (GRCh38) obtained from the Ion Ampliseq Designer [https://ampliseq.com] (Thermofisher Scientific) using the TMAP software as part of the Ion Torrent Server Suite 5.10.1.</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">The read count data from the samples was normalized using python to calculate the reads per million mapped reads (RPM) to the inflammatory targets, and the Matplotlib version 3.4.250, Pandas version 1.2.451 and Seaborn 0.11.152 python packages were then used to create cluster maps of the RPM per sample to look for patterns of gene expression in the data, and to create bar plots of the relative levels of expression in the samples.</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><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">To highlight genes with potential differential expression between the groups, the Kruskal-Wallis test and Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test was applied via the statistical package within the SciPy python library (1.6.1)53.</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">Gene relationships were analysed using String v1155 and the statistical over-representation test in Panther Gene Ontology version 1656.</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>Panther Gene Ontology</div><div>suggested: None</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.

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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 Clinical Trials Ontario (Research Ethics Board of Record: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre), project #2159; the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services multicenter ethics review (REB of Record: Comité d’éthique de la recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine), project #MP-21-2020-2863; the Weil Cornell Medicine General Institutional Review Board, protocol number 20-04021981; as well as the Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa, approval 4.305.792.<br>Consent: Consent was obtained from all donors and participants (or their legally authorized representative).</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">Trial Design and Oversight: CONCOR-1 was an investigator-initiated, multi-center, open-label, randomized controlled trial conducted at 72 hospital sites in Canada, the United States, and Brazil.11 Eligible patients were randomly assigned to receive either convalescent plasma or standard of care.</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">With a 2:1 randomization ratio, 1200 patients (800 in the convalescent plasma group, and 400 in the standard of care group) were needed to provide 80% power to detect a relative risk reduction of 25% with convalescent plasma for the primary outcome with a 30% event rate under standard of care, based on a two-sided test at the 5% significance level.</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>

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      <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 addition, a sample from each plasma donation was tested at reference laboratories after the transfusion for: (1) anti-RBD antibodies (IgM, IgA and IgG) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA);13, 14 (2) viral neutralization by the plaque-reduction neutralization test using live virus;15, 16 (3) IgG antibodies binding to the full-length trimeric transmembrane SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein expressed on 293T cells by flow cytometry;17 and, (4) Fc-mediated function by an antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) assay against the full Spike protein expressed on CEM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgM, IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">In addition, a sample from each plasma donation was tested at reference laboratories after the transfusion for: (1) anti-RBD antibodies (IgM, IgA and IgG) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA);13, 14 (2) viral neutralization by the plaque-reduction neutralization test using live virus;15, 16 (3) IgG antibodies binding to the full-length trimeric transmembrane SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein expressed on 293T cells by flow cytometry;17 and, (4) Fc-mediated function by an antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) assay against the full Spike protein expressed on CEM.</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><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">Randomization and Intervention: Patients were randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive convalescent plasma or standard of care using a secure, concealed, computer-generated, web-accessed randomization sequence (REDCap).</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">20 The results from CONCOR-1 were subsequently included in a meta-analysis based on the May 20th 2021 update of the Cochrane systematic review8 and known randomised trials published since comparing convalescent plasma to placebo or standard care in patients with COVID-19.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane systematic</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:
      The open-label design represents a limitation of this study as knowledge of the treatment group could influence the decision to intubate, report adverse events, or administer other treatments. The antibody profile of the recipient was unavailable at the time of this analysis. In future work we will investigate the value of convalescent plasma in patients without a detectable humoral immune response. In addition, other antibody isotypes (IgM and IgA) and IgG subclasses should be evaluated in future studies to determine their effect on clinical outcomes. In summary, the CONCOR-1 trial did not demonstrate a difference in the frequency of intubation or death at 30 days with convalescent plasma or standard of care in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 respiratory illness. The antibody content had a significant effect-modifying role for the impact of convalescent plasma on the primary outcome. The lack of benefit and the potential concern of harm cautions against the unrestricted use of convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients with COVID-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">NCT04348656</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Terminated</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CONvalescent Plasma for Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 Re…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04355767</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">Convalescent Plasma in Outpatients With COVID-19</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.

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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: All individuals gave their writing informed consent for the use of their serum. 2.2.<br>IACUC: The experimental protocols were approved by the Ethical Committee on Animal Experimentation of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB, Havana, Cuba) and the Center for Production of Laboratory Animals (CENPALAB, Bejucal, Cuba).<br>Euthanasia Agents: The immunogen content per 500 µL: 50 µg of C-RBD-H6 PP protein adjuvated with 0.3 mg of aluminum hydroxide gel (Alhydrogel ®) in phosphate buffer (0.28 mg of disodium hydrogen phosphate, 0.31 mg of sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate, 4.25 mg of sodium chloride).</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">Six- to eight-week-old female BALB/c mice, and male and female SD rats were used for the study and housed in the animal facility.</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 transformants from the plate with the highest concentration of Zeocin™ were randomly picked, purified by further streaking on YPD-Zeocin™, and used to prepare small seed banks.</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>

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      <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">Culture supernatants were analyzed at 96 h post-induction by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting with an anti-His6 antibody (Promega, USA). 2.3. Fermentation: Fermentation was carried out in a 75-liters Chemap fermenter (Germany) with a working volume of 50 L of fermentation medium containing per liter of culture 8.8 mL of 85 % phosphoric acid, 6.92 g MgSO4.7H2O, 1.23 g (NH4)2SO4, 16.77 g K2HPO4, 0.46 g CaCl2.2H2O, 32.3 mL of 98% glycerol, 4.61 g yeast extract, 4 mL histidine solution, 5 mL of 400X vitamin base solution (1 g L−1 myo-inositol, 0.8 g L−1</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-His6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After the plates were blocked with 2 % skim milk, 0.05 % Tween 20, serially diluted mouse, rat or NHP sera or control monoclonal antibodies SS-1, SS-4, SS-7 and SS-8 (Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba), were added and incubated at 37 °C for 2 h in 0.2 % skim milk, 0.05 % Tween 20 in PBS, followed by six washes with PBS containing 0.05 % Tween 20</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SS-8 ( Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology , Sancti Spiritus , Cuba) ,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bound antibodies were detected with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (SIGMA, USA), anti-Rat IgG (SIGMA, USA</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Rat 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">Briefly, 0.25 µg of RBD protein produced in HEK293T cells (Center for Molecular Immunology, Havana) was used to coat 96-well microtiter plates (Corning Costar, Acton, MA) in 0.1 M sodium carbonate buffer (pH 9.6) at 4 °C overnight.</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">Afterward, Vero E6 cell were overlaid with virus suspensions.</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">Animals and immunization schedules: Three different animal species were used for evaluation of immunogenicity of the C-RBD-H6 PP protein: BALB/c mice, Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats, and African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sprague–Dawley</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Six- to eight-week-old female BALB/c mice, and male and female SD rats were used for the study and housed in the animal facility.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BALB/c</div><div>suggested: RRID:IMSR_ORNL:BALB/cRl)</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">Construction of Pichia pastoris strains expressing RBD from SARS-CoV-2 (C-RBD-H6 PP): A sequence coding for residues 331-530 of the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 strain Wuhan-Hu-1 (NCBI Acc. No. YP_009724390) with the appropriate N- and C-terminal extensions was codon-optimized for S. cerevisiae using J-Cat [17] and cloned in-frame with the KEX2 cleavage site of the pre-pro MATα sequence of pPICZαA (Invitrogen, USA), placing it under transcriptional control of the P. pastoris AOX1 promoter.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pPICZαA</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">Surface plasmon resonance experimental procedure: The interaction between mFc-ACE2 fusion protein and the recombinant C-RBD-H6 PP was monitored by SPR using a BIACORE X (GE Health-care) at 25 °C in a multi-cycle mode.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GE Health-care</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The equilibrium dissociation constant (binding affinity, KD) was estimated with the BIAevaluation® software (GE Healthcare) using the Langmuir 1:1 interaction model.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BIAevaluation®</div><div>suggested: (BIAevaluation Software, RRID:SCR_015936)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Prism 8.4.3 software was used to generate dose-response curves for ELISA test and to calculate EC50 values when needed.</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></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).

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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">Secondary antibody goat antimouse IR 800 (Thermo) and DNA dye Draq5 (Thermo) were diluted 1/10,000 in blocking buffer and incubated for 1h at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Secondary antibody goat antimouse</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DNA dye Draq5 (Thermo)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Draq5</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 virus was amplified in Vero E6 cells and used at a passage 3 for all experiments as previously described(24, 34).</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">Media containing drugs was removed and 106 Focus Forming Units (FFU) (as determined in Vero cells) of SARS-CoV-2 was added to each well for 1 hour at 37°C.</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">RNA-Seq raw-counts data for Calu-3, H1299 and Caco-2 cell line models were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus Database (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), GSE148729)(23).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Specifically, protein activity signatures in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection of the lung adenocarcinoma cell lines (Calu-3, H1299 and A549), lung organoids and human lung tissue samples were inferred with the VIPER algorithm using the lung adenocarcinoma context-specific network.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: NCI-DTP Cat# A549, RRID:CVCL_0023)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For Calu-3 and H1299 cell lines, we considered as “SARS-CoV-2-infected” all the cells with at least 1 sequencing read mapping to the SARS-CoV-2 genome.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>H1299</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enrichment of Viral Checkpoint MRs on infection essential genes identified by CRISPR screens: CRISPR screen results (z-score) were downloaded from the supplementary data of Wei et.al(9) (Vero-E6 cells) and Schneider et.</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">(7) (Huh-7.5 cells).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Huh-7.5</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_7927)</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">Quantifications of infection was carried out by quantifying the number of infected cells (mKate positive cells) in infected and not infected samples using CellProfiler.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CellProfiler</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">RNA-Seq raw-counts data for Calu-3, H1299 and Caco-2 cell line models were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus Database (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), GSE148729)(23).</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">Raw-count data was normalized using the variance stabilization transformation (VST) procedure as implemented in the DESeq package from Bioconductor(49)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DESeq</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">Differential gene expression signatures for the Wyler’s dataset(23) (GSE148729) were computed by comparing the SARS-CoV-2 infected samples against the centroid—i.e. the average expression of each gene—of the closest matched non-infected (mock) samples as identified by unsupervised clustering.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Wyler’s</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The optimal number of clusters was estimated by silhouette-score analysis as implemented in the “fviz_nbclust” function of the “factoextra” package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/factoextra/index.html).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/factoextra/index.html</div><div>suggested: (factoextra, RRID:SCR_016692)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lung, colon and rectal adenocarcinoma context-specific models of transcriptional regulation were reverse-engineered, based on 517 lung, 459 colon and 167 rectal adenocarcinoma samples in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) with the ARACNe algorithm(13, 50), as discussed in(19).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ARACNe</div><div>suggested: (ARACNE, RRID:SCR_002180)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, gene expression profiles were transformed to differential gene expression signatures using the “scale” method—i.e. z-score transformation—as implemented in the VIPER package(12).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VIPER</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enrichment of the top 50 most activated, and the top 50 most inactivated proteins in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, obtained after integrating (average) all 10 single-cell protein activity signatures, on each CRISPR experiment z-score signature, and on their Stouffer’s integration, were estimated by GSEA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GSEA</div><div>suggested: (SeqGSEA, RRID:SCR_005724)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Based on the successful outcomes observed with OncoTreat when evaluated in the context of tumor suppression, we sought to develop a novel, analogous algorithm, ViroTreat, to identify small molecule compounds capable of suppressing viral infection by targeting the Viral Checkpoint module.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OncoTreat</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The lung adenocarcinoma, colon and rectal context-specific interactomes are available as part of the “aracne.networks” R-system’s package from Bioconductor.</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></table>

      Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Such a holistic approach to matching disease dependencies to drug MoA overcomes the inherent limitations of drug repurposing efforts that focus on inhibitors of individual proteins or single pathways to thwart viral infectivity as part of a host cell-directed strategy. Elucidation of Viral Checkpoint MRs requires availability of gene expression signatures that accurately reflect virusmediated changes in the host cell transcriptome. Thus, to avoid confounding effects by model-idiosyncratic mechanisms and to ensure identification of more universal and reproducible MR proteins, we dissected the Viral Check-point from multiple, complementary models, including transformed cell lines and normal 3D-organoid cultures representing both airway and GI epithelium lineages. In addition, to avoid additional confounding effects arising from infection heterogeneity, we performed VIPER analysis at the single cell level, thereby mitigating the contribution of non-infected cells, which represent the majority of the tissue, based on reads mapping to the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Similarly, we avoided confounding effects arising from single cell transcriptional state heterogeneity by comparing each infected cell to a small pool of the closest non-infected cells, based on MR analysis, as controls. Finally, to achieve context-specific understanding of drug MoA, the analysis was performed in tissues reflective of the biology of infected cells based on conservation of their most differentially active MRs, a...

      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">NCT02066532</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Unknown status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ruxolitinib in Combination With Trastuzumab in Metastatic HE…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT02632071</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">ACY-1215 + Nab-paclitaxel in Metastatic Breast Cancer</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT03211988</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">Entinostat Neuroendocrine (NE) Tumor</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04492891</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">Cyclosporine For The Treatment Of COVID-19(+)</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04351763</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">Amiodarone or Verapamil in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients Wi…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04509999</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Withdrawn</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bicalutamide to Block TMPRSS2 in Males With COVID-19 Infecti…</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.

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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><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.

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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><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">0% confluent Vero E6 cells and allowed to adsorb for 1 hour.</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">SARS-CoV-2 Real-Time RT-qPCR: RNA was analysed using a range of different methods available at each site: CerTest VIASURE SARS-CoV-2 real time qPCR assay: Single step RT-qPCR against the ORF1ab region and N1 gene target of SARS-CoV-2 was carried out using the CerTest VIASURE SARS-CoV-2 real time PCR kit (CerTest Biotech SL, Zaragoza, Spain) according to manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) on either the ThermoFisher QuantStudio 5 or BioMolecular Systems MIC instruments, using 5 µl of extracted RNA per reaction.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ThermoFisher QuantStudio</div><div>suggested: (Primer Express Software, RRID:SCR_017376)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Real-Time qPCR assay: Single step RT-qPCR against the E gene target of SARS-CoV-2 was carried out with the Corman et al. 3 primers using the AgPath-ID™ PCR kit (Thermofisher) according to manufacturer’s instructions for use (IFU) on an Aria qPCR Cycler (Agilent) and results analysed using the Agilent AriaMX 1.5 software, using 5 µl of extracted RNA per reaction.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Agilent AriaMX</div><div>suggested: (Agilent AriaMx Real-time PCR System, RRID:SCR_019469)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Confusion matrices, sensitivity, specificity, sensitivity as a function of viral load calculations, and the production of scatter graphs showing the relationship between RT-LAMP results and CT were performed using Python 3.8.6.</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>

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      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Incorporation of this inhibition control into the RT-LAMP assays would alleviate a potential limitation of the current assays and further support quality assurance for use within a clinical diagnostic setting. This study demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for a novel sample preparation method used for SARS-CoV-2 Direct RT-LAMP, particularly in samples from which the individual would likely be considered infectious, highlighting the usefulness of saliva as a simple to collect, non-invasive sample type. The highly sensitive RNA RT-LAMP assay provides a rapid alternative with a reliance on differing reagents and equipment to RT-qPCR testing, thus providing additional diagnostic capacity and redundancy through diversity. Direct RT-LAMP may complement existing surveillance tools for SARS-CoV-2 testing including other point-of-care and laboratory-based diagnostics and is applicable to a variety of clinical scenarios, such as frequent, interval-based testing of asymptomatic individuals that may be missed when reliance is on symptomatic testing alone. However, care should be taken when considering frequency of testing, messaging around the role and interpretation of asymptomatic rapid tests, integration of data storage and access, and the challenges faced when scaling up surveillance to large populations. The role out of a new testing strategy can often throw up interesting and unexpected experiences. These collective experiences and lessons learnt from setting up an NHS a...

      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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      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">As shown in Table 9, the rate of positive responses in all three groups was greater for females that males (77 vs 62%, 78 vs 53%, and 96 vs 82%, respectively, in the COVID-19-naïve dose 1, COVID-exposed dose 1, and COVID-19-naïve dose 2 groups.</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">Recombinant SARS-Cov-2 spike protein S1 domain produced in human embryonic kidney HEK293 cells (Diabetomics, Inc.) and goat anti-human IgG, IgA, and IgM (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) were used for capture and detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG, IgA, and IgM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We also determined the persistence of oral fluid antibodies in the antibody-positive subjects.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-positive subjects.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">As shown in Table 4, the CovAb™ test detected antibodies up to 7.2 months post-symptom onset in >8% of the antibody-positive group.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-positive group.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Comparator EUA serology test (Siemens total antibody test): Fingerstick whole-blood samples were obtained from 38 subjects who tested positive with the CovAb™ test using GCF, and all were also positive in the CovAb™ test using these whole blood samples.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GCF</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Of this group, 32 (37%) were antibody-negative and 51 (63%) were antibody-positive, a proportion similar to the COVID-19-naïve group.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-positive</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">Recombinant SARS-Cov-2 spike protein S1 domain produced in human embryonic kidney HEK293 cells (Diabetomics, Inc.) and goat anti-human IgG, IgA, and IgM (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) were used for capture and detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300192/p777_HEK293, RRID:CVCL_0045)</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">IACUC: The study had the approval of the Institutional Ethical Committee (IEC/2020/77/MA07) and was conducted following the Declaration of Helsinki.</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">SARS-CoV-2 Whole genome sequencing: Sequencing using Illumina MiSeq Platform: 46 RT-PCR positive samples (Ct value ≤ 20) were randomly selected from the Virology repository at -80°C and subjected to whole genome sequencing (WGS).</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 SARS COV2 IgG antibodies were measured using the enhanced chemiluminescence method (Vitros ECi, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, New Jersey, US).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS COV2 IgG</div><div>suggested: (EnCor Biotechnology Cat# RPCA-SARS-CoV2-bd, RRID:AB_2861175)</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">SARS-CoV-2 Whole genome sequencing: Sequencing using Illumina MiSeq Platform: 46 RT-PCR positive samples (Ct value ≤ 20) were randomly selected from the Virology repository at -80°C and subjected to whole genome sequencing (WGS).</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">Sequencing data analysis: MiSeq data analysis: FastQC v0.11.9 (http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc) was used to check the Phred quality score for all sequences.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FastQC</div><div>suggested: (FastQC, RRID:SCR_014583)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Phred</div><div>suggested: (Phred, RRID:SCR_001017)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Adapter trimming was performed using the Trim Galore tool v0.6.1 (https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/trim_galore/) and alignment of sequences was performed using the HISAT2 [7] algorithm on human data build GRCh38.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Trim Galore</div><div>suggested: (Trim Galore, RRID:SCR_011847)</div></div><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">To remove any human sequences from the dataset, samtools v1.12 [8] were used to remove aligned sequences.</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">SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenetic and mutation analysis: We sequenced 46 vaccinated COVID-19 positive samples that were aligned to NC_045512 reference genome using MAFFT v7.475 [9] multiple alignment tool.</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">The aligned sequences were trimmed to remove gaps and a phylogenetic tree was generated using the default model of the IQ-TREE tool v2.0.3 [10].</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">The tree was visualized using FigTree v1.4.4 [11].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FigTree</div><div>suggested: (FigTree, RRID:SCR_008515)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The lollipop plot is generated in RStudio using g3viz, rtracklayer, and trackViewer packages followed by data visualization using the ggplot2 package.</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>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">All the figures were updated using Inkscape software [13].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Inkscape</div><div>suggested: (Inkscape, RRID:SCR_014479)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The statistical analysis was done using SPSS software version 22.</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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      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 statistics were performed using Python version 3.1 with the stats models package.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Our study has several limitations. All data are observational, therefore testing was not performed with the use of a strict clinical protocol. Therefore, testing was less likely to be performed for vaccinated household members and asymptomatic cases may have been missed. We did not include data on viral strains. We assumed that all exposure within a given household posed a high risk of transmission, but we are unable to quantify the actual level of exposure with a given household. The large sample size, high vaccination rates, high testing rates, and correction performed for missing testing all partly overcome these limitations. Household studies are certainly an efficient way of assessing vaccine effectiveness in a given population6,19–22, allowing for analyses of infection rates when exposure is confirmed with a high degree of certainty – thus avoiding the potential skewing effect of intrinsic differences amongst communities. Additionally, there is a high likelihood that the same SARS-CoV-2 strain infected persons living in the same household. Two issues are the subject of our future research, currently underway; first, the inclusion of more than two household members in general and of children in particular. Transmission dynamics could be influenced by age, and children are more likely to be asymptomatic and less likely to be tested. Children may also affect of the magnitude of exposure as they increase the number of persons per household12. “Quantifying” exposure relative...

      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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259717: (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">2.2 Sample and data collection: The survey was administered to the probability-based NatCen Panel [21], recruited from the 2018, 2019, and 2020 waves of the British Social Attitudes survey, with participants randomly selected from England, Wales and Scotland.</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 analysed using SPSS v27.</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:
      4.3 Strengths and limitations: Strengths include the large probability-based nationally representative sample, ability to analyse by ethnicity and surveying during vaccine roll-out. Our findings can be generalised to GB’s adult population, however global contexts for COVID-19 and vaccination vary. Although not generalisable to them, the findings are still informative for other countries. The study has limitations. As it is cross-sectional, we cannot infer causality; although we included variables likely to be important in vaccine acceptance, these results are exploratory. Our qualitative studies will deepen understanding of associations. A survey repeated when COVID-19 cases and deaths are low, and without lockdown, might yield different responses. We did not survey individuals who are institutionalised (e.g. prisoners), notably difficult to reach (e.g. homeless), or those not speaking English (therefore, our ethnic minority sample may underrepresent certain views); specific surveys are needed for these groups. We investigated vaccination intention. Actual uptake may be lower, although it is likely that factors associated with intention will influence uptake.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259723: (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: Thank you for sharing your code.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      We now discuss limitations of multi-hop contact tracing in the current context and how to circumvent the limitations in order to prevent a future epidemic from becoming a pandemic. First, the benefits of contact tracing, both single hop and multi-hop, considerably decrease if a non-negligible percentage of the society do not reveal their contacts, do not test, and do not quarantine when asked to. Cooperation with health authorities varies across the world: while a high degree of cooperation was witnessed in South Korea and Taiwan which had suffered from large scale epidemics in the last twenty years (26, 27), cooperation was lower in Europe and US (28), both of which experienced a large scale epidemic about a century ago (the 1918 flu). Learning from the experience of this pandemic, public awareness campaigns need to be pursued to elicit cooperation with health authorities. Multi-hop may provide an important advantage to ensure cooperation in that it can contain the outbreak faster which may incentivize full cooperation for a short duration, whereas cooperation may wane due to pandemic-fatigue as time progresses. Next, manual tracing of contacts is a labor intensive activity even for single-hop tracing. This over-load will likely be exacerbated for multi-hop during the initial days of the tracing. This is because although in many instances testing and quarantining (and therefore tracing) costs over time were lower for multi-hop as compared to single-hop, at the start, invaria...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259409: (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: Ethical approval for this research was received from the Ethics Review Board (CAAE: 31703720.9.1001.0008) at University of São Paulo. 2.2.</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">The study sampled adults aged 18 years or older by unclustered systematic random samples from all 23 states in Brazil.</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 strategy: All the data processing was completed in SPSS 23.0, and a two-tailed p < .</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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    1. sciscore 06 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259707: (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">In the Bayesian inference carried out, the samples of the posterior distributions of the parameters were obtained using the Delayed-Rejection-Adaptive-Metropolis (DRAM) algorithm, implemented via the Python Package pymcmcstat [32], with 5 × 105 samples and burn-in number of 2.5 × 105.</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:
      The forecast limitations are directly related to the limitations of the chosen deterministic model. In our case, the deterministic models Gompertz and GRM allow predicting the end of a wave, but they do not predict peaks of active infections or epidemic rebounds. Nevertheless, the Gompertz+U model shows good results in making short-term predictions. In some trajectories drawn from posterior distributions of the new-model parameters, a growth of reported cases was observed towards the final days when the deterministic model already showed a plateau shape. This was not a reason to discard these regions in the analysis because we consider this phenomenon to be plausible, because sometimes samples are accumulated without being tested by real-time polymerase chain reaction, due to laboratory availability or priority of the authorities of one region over another. Some current limitations of the new model are: The influence of the third limitation is reduced in this work by imposing limits on initial conditions of the model. Despite the above, we consider that the new model is a powerful tool to complement the information that decision-makers need to establish the appropriate policies to contain 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.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259726: (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.
      • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.27.21259530: (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 model was implemented using the open source simulation engine Compartmental Modeling Software [32] combined with a simulation management framework in Python 3.9 [33] and post-processing in R 4.0 [34].</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: 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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259633: (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 consent was obtained.<br>IRB: Ethical approval: This study protocol was approved by the ethics board of the University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany.</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 limitations. This includes that study duration and material was not consistent in all three rounds of the study, limiting comparability of results. All samples were collected without observation by a medical professional, which may have influenced testing sensitivity. Also, since study participation was on a voluntary basis, biases may have also effected the results of the study. We only tested for inapparent shedding, but transmissions were not examined as part of the study. For the upcoming weeks of the pandemic, it can be assumed that the currently dominant virus variant Alpha will be displaced by the VOC Delta. Whether the even more infectious variant Delta 19 will influence transmission among children and thus the incidence of infection in day care centers in the future has to be investigated in further studies.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259686: (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 current study is a prospective sero surveillance study initiated after obtaining the Institutional Ethics Committee approval from January 2021 to April 2021.<br>Consent: After obtaining informed consent, a self-administered questionnaire in Google forms was filled by the participant (Annexure 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><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: The protective levels post vaccination has not yet been validated.</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">Participants of the study were healthcare workers of JMMC & RI: (a) who have provided their pre-vaccination serum sample for SARS CoV-2 antibody estimation and found negative (b) who have taken the first dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Coronavirus vaccine (c) with no history or test result suggestive of Covid infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RI</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The samples were subjected to SARS-CoV-2 Ig G and total antibody testing using the VITROS anti SARS CoV-2 Ig G/Total Chemiluminescence kit manufactured by Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, USA (OCD).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti SARS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The VITROS anti-SARS-CoV-2 total assay can detect total antibodies (IgA, Ig M, and Ig G) against SARS-CoV-2 S protein.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 total assay can detect total antibodies (IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 S protein.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti SARS Cov-2 Ig G antibody levels have been tested using various platforms especially for the extraction of high titre Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti SARS Cov-2 Ig G</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 collected was entered into Microsoft Excel spread sheets and analyzed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Our limitations include a small sample size and exclusion of individuals who developed Covid-19 infection before or in between vaccination. We have also not looked into cell-mediated immune responses which could augment responses against Covid-19 virus.

      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: Human Sera and monoclonal antibodies: Convalescent sera and BNT162b2 or Moderna-vaccinated sera were collected on day 28, 7 days post-second immunization, at the NYU Vaccine Center with written consent under IRB approved protocols (IRB 18-02035 and IRB 18-02037).</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">Immunoblot analysis: Proteins were analyzed on immunoblots probed with mouse anti-spike monoclonal antibody (1A9) (GeneTex), anti-p24 monoclonal antibody (AG3.0) and anti-GAPDH monoclonal antibody (Life Technologies) followed by goat anti-mouse HRP-conjugated secondary antibody (Sigma) as previously described2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-spike</div><div>suggested: (Imported from the IEDB Cat# 1A9, RRID:AB_2848025)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-p24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-GAPDH</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse HRP-conjugated secondary</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">Soluble ACE2 Neutralization assay: Serially diluted recombinant soluble ACE2 protein prepared from transfected CHO cells was incubated with pseudotyped virus for 30 minutes at room temperature and added to ACE2.293T cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2.293T</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">Statistical Analysis: All experiments were in technical duplicates or triplicates and the data were analyzed using GraphPad Prism 8.</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">3D view of protein was obtained 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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259494: (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: Ethical considerations: The study was approved by a central Medical Ethics Committee as well as the local Ethics Committees of all participating hospitals.</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 was performed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics, Version 26.0).</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: 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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259860: (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: All the patients 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">For comparison purposes, we used placental tissues from 28 women who underwent live childbirth without contracting SARS-CoV-2 as determined by a PCR test.</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 sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) and Masson’s trichrome, and immunohistochemistry using the antibody against α-smooth muscle actin was carried out.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>α-smooth muscle actin</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">Morphometric investigations included the assessment of placental arterial wall thickness and the placental arterial lumen index (the ratio of the internal vessel area to the external vessel area) using the ImageJ software.</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">Statistical analysis: For the morphometric analysis, IBM SPSS Statistics software version 22.0 was used for the statistical calculations.</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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259730: (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">We confirmed our classification system’s reliability by randomly sampling ∼5% (n=112) of employers from the shortlist and having two reviewers with experience working with occupational classification systems (ND and SD) independently classify each employer.</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">We extracted fields including the date of the report, testing modality (antigen, nucleic acid, or antibody), and the monitoring speed (lab-based versus point-of-care).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antigen, nucleic acid, or antibody),</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:
      Nevertheless, our study has some limitations. First, we aimed to track large employers and our findings should not be generalized to small businesses. Small businesses comprise a large portion of most economies27,28 and can include occupations associated with particularly high risk of transmission (e.g., taxi drivers)29,23. Alternative strategies are required to understand precautions in these workplaces. Second, we likely underestimate the proportion of large employers testing employees because not all employers have an incentive to publicly disclose their efforts. Our findings therefore represent a lower bound of the proportion of employers conducting testing while surveys, which are likely skewed by non-response bias, represent an upper bound6. Our findings highlight opportunities to further implement testing programs in high-risk workplaces and thereby improve workplace safety. In some cases, workforces in these high-risk settings may have low vaccine coverage due to low levels of vaccine confidence, underscoring the importance of including testing among other safety measures. In addition to promoting vaccine uptake, public health officials and occupational health experts should continue to support the adoption of testing in high-risk work environments, guided by a combination of publicly-available data and employer surveys.

      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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259500: (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: Study procedures were approved by Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and all the subjects gave their 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">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-specific antibody and T-cell determination: To detect subjects with SARS-CoV-2 infection after the first pandemic wave, serological analysis was performed in the period April 29-June 30 2020 using chemiluminescent assay (Liason SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG, Diasorin, Saluggia, Italy) for the quantitative measurement of SARS-CoV-2 anti-S1 and anti-S2 IgG antibody.</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-S1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-Spike IgG antibody was determined using Liason SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG (Diasorin).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Spike 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">Virus isolation and sequencing: Virus isolation was performed by inoculation of 200µl nasopharyngeal swab suspension medium, after decontamination with an antibiotics pool for 30 min at room temperature, on Vero E6 cells cultured in 24well plate, and detection of cytopathic effect after one week culture.</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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259609: (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">Mendelian randomization analysis: Here we performed two-sample MR, in which the instrument-exposure and instrument-outcome associations were estimated in different samples.</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 statistical power is however weaker.</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:
      One important limitation of observational studies is the risk of residual confounding. For example, socioeconomic status is not controlled for by Tanquet et al., and incomplete data on some covariates may lead to inadequate control for confounders. In addition, the above studies typically focused on a few psychiatric disorders, and the coverage is not as comprehensive as the current study. In this MR study, liability to AD, ADHD, ALD, OD, PTSD and SA were associated with increased risk and/or severity of COVID-19 infection/severity. As discussed above, there was evidence that ADHD1 and substance use disorders46 may be associated with heightened risk of COVID-19. There were no previous studies that directly addressed association of PTSD and history of suicide with susceptibility to infection. However, in Yang et al46, stress-related disorders were associated with higher risks of infection, hospitalization and mortality, although the results were non-significant. Suicide attempts (SA) is linked to many psychiatric disorders (e.g. mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders) and previous studies have shown that prior psychiatric disorders as a whole were associated with COVID-19. There have been relatively few studies on the associations of psychiatric disorders with risks/severity of pneumonia. A study using linked hospital records showed that the risk of pneumococcal disease was elevated for patients with SCZ, BD, anxiety or depression8. We found potential causal relationships of an...

      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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    1. sciscore 06 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.26.21259487: (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">Reads were processed and assembled with the Illumina DRAGEN COVID pipeline or a custom pipeline based on MEGAHIT v1.2.9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MEGAHIT</div><div>suggested: (MEGAHIT, RRID:SCR_018551)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Genomes were aligned against the Wuhan reference genome (NC_045512.2) using MAFFT v7.48.</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 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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    1. sciscore 06 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.29.21259625: (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">Infected with Mild and Moderate Symptoms (Ib): Individuals within the population of the model with mild and moderate symptoms who are infectious.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Mild</div><div>suggested: (MILD, RRID:SCR_003335)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To allow the goodness of fit of Modelled data to Active Case or Reported COVID-19 Deaths Data, the Average Normalised Error of all Data points used in the Regression Analysis was reduced to 0 by changing the Effective Daily Contact Number (β) using the What-If Analysis Function in MS Excel.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MS 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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      The South African National Lockdown Level Alert 5 as shown in Table 4 was predominantly movement restrictions and limitation of services to essential services. Under this level the South African borders and air space were closed, there was an enforcement of strict non-movement of non-essential personal and a ban on some of the industries such as the alcohol and tobacco industry. To enforce this the South African Defence Force was deployed to oversee the compliance of this measure (Government of South Africa, 2020b). A screening and testing program for COVID-19 was initiated under the South African Department of Health. The initial testing was conducted by the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) and this was expanded to a larger network of private and National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) (NICD, 2020b). Mobile testing units were also deployed particularly to the hardest-hit provinces of Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal (Government of South Africa, 2020c). The South African economy like in many other countries with similar COVID-19 measures was negatively affected due to limitations in business and trade (Arndt et al., 2020). South Africa gradually eased restrictions to the National Lockdown Level Alerts 4,3,2 and 1 by permitting businesses to trade, easing curfews, gathering capacity and movement restrictions as shown by the difference in the Alert Level policy summaries provided in Table 4. On the 17th of August 2020, the national lockdown alert lev...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259452: (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">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">Participants: The REACT-2 programme evaluates community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike protein antibody positivity in England.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-spike protein</div><div>suggested: None</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:
      Strengths and Limitations: This study uses a large random community sample with a high response rate (26–29% across the three rounds) to describe the persistence of COVID-19 symptoms. It is therefore more likely to be representative of the range of disease severity in the population compared to some others, especially those based on hospitalised cases alone5. The focus in our questionnaire on persistence of self-reported COVID-19 symptoms, without specific reference to Long COVID (in contrast to the questions in some other studies7) has allowed us to investigate the persistence of a wide range of specific symptoms that have been suggested as relevant to Long COVID.3,5 However, it is clear that a wide spectrum of symptoms and clinical presentations post-COVID-19 may be involved; our open free-text question identified a number of symptoms not included in our questionnaire including “brain fog”, “palpitations” and “hair loss”.29 However, as the study was based on self-reported data and because many of the symptoms are common and not specific to COVID-19, we may, as noted, have overestimated the prevalence of persistent symptoms. A further limitation is the retrospective study design, which introduces the possibility of recall bias. Nonetheless, in earlier analyses we have shown that participant reports of date of onset of their symptoms produce an epidemic curve that very closely tracks the epidemic.27,30,31 Respondents were restricted to reporting a single date of (initial) sym...

      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/10.1101/2021.06.28.21259420
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    1. sciscore 06 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259420: (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">Field Sample Permit: We classified specimens positive for both N501Y and E484K mutations as the Beta or Gamma variants since both variants have the E484K mutation and insufficient numbers of specimens were sequenced to permit estimation of vaccine effectiveness for Beta and Gamma separately.</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 used the first positive test for cases with multiple positive tests, and a randomly selected negative test for controls with multiple negative tests.</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: Covariates: We obtained information on the following covariates from administrative databases: age and sex from the Ontario Registered Persons Database (RPDB); postal code and Public Health Unit of residence from the RPDB and Statistics Canada Postal Code Conversion File Plus (version 7B); the number of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests for each individual during the 3 months prior to 14 December (a proxy for individuals who are at increased risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection and undergo frequent testing), and biweekly (weekly for Delta) period of RT-PCR test to account for the temporal viral activity and regional vaccine roll-out created using testing information from OLIS; comorbidities12 associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19 identified from various databases using validated algorithms and commonly used diagnostic codes described previously;13 influenza vaccination status during the 2019/2020 and/or 2020/2021 influenza season determined from physician and pharmacist billing claims in the Ontario Health Insurance Plan and Ontario Drug Benefit databases, respectively; and information on median neighbourhood income, proportion of the working population employed as non-health essential workers, average number of persons per dwelling, and proportion of the population who self-identify as a visible minority obtained from 2016 Census data.</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 some limitations of our study. First, VOC classification in this study relied on a combination of mutation screening and whole genome sequencing, and the criteria for sequencing evolved over the course of the pandemic. Our definition of Delta specimens relied largely on a proxy measure of a N501Y-/E484K- result on mutation screening and a combination of date and geographic location, which were used to infer probable Delta variant specimens. Thus, a small proportion of specimens designated as Delta may have been non-VOC specimens. Second, since vaccine effectiveness is likely impacted by age, the interval between most recent vaccination and index date, vaccine product, and VOC, and given that the eligibility criteria for vaccination (e.g., initial prioritization of older age groups), the availability of certain vaccine products, and the distribution of circulating VOCs all varied over time, comparisons of vaccine effectiveness estimates between combinations of vaccine products and VOCs should be made with caution. However, we adjusted for relevant covariates and restricted the periods of vaccine effectiveness estimation for Beta/Gamma and Delta variants to correspond with their initial confirmation in Ontario. Third, it is possible that we may have missed some of the severe outcomes if they were not recorded in CCM, such as when severe outcomes occur after completion of case follow-up or when cases volumes exceed public health system capacity and public health invest...

      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/10.1101/2021.07.01.450676
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    1. sciscore 05 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.450676: (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.
      • 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 10.1101/2021.07.01.21259831: (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 trial was conducted at the Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) Investigational Medicine Unit, following approvals by the SingHealth Centralized Institutional Review Board (CIRB F/2020/2553) and the Singapore Health Sciences Authority.<br>Consent: Written informed consent was provided by all the participants before enrollment.</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">Trial design, participants and oversight: ARCT-021-01 is a randomized, double-blinded, placebo (0.9% saline) controlled study to assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of different dose levels of ARCT-021.</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 Analysis: No formal sample size calculation was performed.</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">NCT04480957</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">Ascending Dose Study of Investigational SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine A…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04668339</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 Trial Evaluating the Safety and Effects of an RNA Vaccine …</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://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.450915
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    1. sciscore 05 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.450915: (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: These samples were drawn from Seattle Children’s workforce and adult community members diagnosed with COVID-19 by detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acids in nasopharyngeal specimens, who subsequently enrolled into the Seattle Children’s SARS2 Recovered Cohort with informed consent and Institutional Review Board approval through SCRI.<br>IRB: These samples were drawn from Seattle Children’s workforce and adult community members diagnosed with COVID-19 by detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acids in nasopharyngeal specimens, who subsequently enrolled into the Seattle Children’s SARS2 Recovered Cohort with informed consent and Institutional Review Board approval through SCRI.</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">HRP conjugated rec-Protein G antibodies (Invitrogen, 101223) were diluted (diluent mixture described above) by a factor of 4000, HRP conjugated IgM antibodies (ThermoFisher, A18835) were diluted by a factor of 2000, HRP conjugated IgA antibodies (ThermoFisher, PAI-74395) were diluted by a factor of 8000, HRP conjugated IgG1 antibodies (Invitrogen, MH1715) were diluted by a factor of 1000, HRP conjugated IgG3 antibodies (Invitrogen, 05-3620) were diluted by a factor of 1000, and HRP conjugated IgG4 antibodies (ThermoFisher, MH1742) were diluted by a factor of 2000 (Table 1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG1</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# MH1742, RRID:AB_2539714)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HRP conjugated IgG3</div><div>suggested: (Innovative Research Cat# 053620, RRID:AB_1500903)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HRP conjugated IgG4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A set of 92 (used for each SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody ELISA) or 82 (used for total IgG RBD) negative samples from a pre-COVID-19 biorepository and four positive SARS-CoV-2 convalescent samples (2 positives for IgG4) were used in determining specificity of our ELISA methodology.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>total IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG4</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">2.3 Neutralization Methodologies: Cell lines and growth conditions: Vero E6 and HEK293T cells were obtained from ATCC and HEK293T cells stably transfected with human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (HEK293T-hACE2) were obtained from BEI Resources (NR-52511).</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">Wells were washed twice with sterile water, and HEK293T-hACE2 cells were plated at 2.5×104 cells/well in 50 µL cDMEM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T-hACE2</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_A7UK)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The setup plate was incubated at 37°C + 5% CO2 for 1 hour prior to addition to HEK293T-hACEs cell as above.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T-hACEs</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PRNT assay: One day prior to infection, Vero E6 cells were plated at 4 × 105 cells/well in 2 mL cDMEM in a 6-well plate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_A7UJ)</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 plate cutoff values were then used to calculate each sample EPT using a 4-parameter logistic model in XL-fit software (model 208) as a Microsoft Excel add-in, as used by our team in previous clinical trial evaluations39,40.</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">Pseudovirus inhibition curves and the concentration of plasma required to inhibit pseudovirus entry by 50% (IC50) was determined by plotting the data and fitting a curve using the neutcurve Python package (https://jbloomlab.github.io/neutcurve/).</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>

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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.

      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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      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">Inhibition assay of Human coronavirus 229E: Huh-7 cells were grown in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (10% FBS) and 1% antibiotics.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Huh-7</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">(https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich, RRID:SCR_008988)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The 3D structures of compounds (Fig. 2) were obtained from PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and then used as ligands.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/</div><div>suggested: (PubChem BioAssay, RRID:SCR_010734)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The modeling of protein-ligand docking was performed via the publically available AutoDock Vina (http://vina.scripps.edu/) software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>http://vina.scripps.edu/</div><div>suggested: (AutoDock Vina, RRID:SCR_011958)</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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 44. 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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      • No funding statement was detected.
      • 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: The RCT was approved by Brazilian National Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health, under the approval number 4.513.425 of the process number (CAAE) 41909121.0.0000.5553 (original name of the Ethics Committee: Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa (CEP) do the Comitê Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa (CONEP) do Ministério da Saúde - CEP/CONEP/MS).<br>IRB: The RCT was approved by Brazilian National Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health, under the approval number 4.513.425 of the process number (CAAE) 41909121.0.0000.5553 (original name of the Ethics Committee: Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa (CEP) do the Comitê Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa (CONEP) do Ministério da Saúde - CEP/CONEP/MS).</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">Eligibility criteria: In short, for inclusion, men and women above 18 years old hospitalized due to COVID-19 confirmed with a positive real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 (Cobas SARS-CoV-2 rtPCR kit test protocol, Roche, USA) were considered.</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">Trial Design, Setting and Locations: Study design, criteria for eligibility, randomization, procedures, outcomes are described elsewhere.</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">Exclusion criteria included mechanical ventilation at the time of randomization, known congestive heart failure class III or IV (New York Heart Association)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>York Heart Association</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:
      Typical limitations of a post-hoc analysis of a RCT are mostly absent in the present case.13 The number of patients without at least two chest TC scans was significantly higher in the placebo group than in the proxalutamide group, possibly because the number of patients that needed ICU was significantly higher in the placebo group (Table 2). Due to the absence of a mobile CT scan, the performance of a CT scan became unfeasible when patients needed ICU, in particular when they were under mechanical ventilation (Table 2). The present analysis possibly underestimates the efficacy of proxalutamide for hospitalized patients with COVID-19, for two reasons: 1. Patients that had better responses to proxalutamide did not undergo a second CT scan, since they were discharged before five days, when a second chest CT scan would be performed, as per the hospitals protocol. Consequently, the best responders to to proxalutamide were probably selectively removed from analysis: and 2. Patients in the placebo group that had worse progression of the COVID-19 were not able to undergo a second CT scan because most of them needed ICU before five days, which precluded them from a second CT scan. In this way, patients that had better responses to usual care were probably selectively were included in the analysis. In short, this is an analysis that compared the group that responded relatively worse to proxalutamide, and therefore remained in the hospital for a longer period of time, with the group tha...

      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">NCT04728802</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">Proxalutamide Treatment for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients</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

      <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: Prospective study design: The study (NCT# 04910971) was performed in accordance with standard ethical principles and approved by the LifeBridge Health local Institutional Review Board under Protocol # 1707882.<br>Consent: All participants provided written 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>

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      <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 comparative analysis, anti-RBD IgG and anti-NCP antibody data in a cohort of healthy volunteers from the pre-pandemic era (n = 200), and COVID-19 patients hospitalized (n = 34) from a previous study (NCT# 04493307) confirmed by positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests were included.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RBD IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-NCP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A mixture of diluted anti-RBD IgG/IgM purified antibodies as signal normalizer was loaded into the neighboring well on the same row as each sample tested, and a blank control (10% FBST only) was included on each biochip; 3) Secondary antibody incubation: each well was subsequently incubated with a mixture of 4 nM iFluor™820-labeled anti-human IgG secondary antibody, 4 nM CF647-labeled anti-human IgM secondary antibody, and 4 nM iFluor™820-labeled streptavidin in a 2% BSA solution for 30 minutes at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RBD IgG/IgM</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">Avidity is always below the value of 1, since the denaturing urea tends to weaken antibody binding to antigens immobilized on pGOLD™.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pGOLD™</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">Definitions: ROC (receiver operating characteristics) curve analysis was performed based on the quantification of antibody levels of pre-pandemic healthy subjects, vaccinees, and COVID-19 patients by MedCalc 20 (MedCalc Software Ltd, Ostend, Belgium).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MedCalc</div><div>suggested: (MedCalc, RRID:SCR_015044)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A p value < 0.05 was considered statistically different between two groups (COVID-19, pre-vaccination D0, D19-28, D33-55, D61-83, D89-108, and D112-146) in this study (OriginPro 2021b, OriginLab Corporation, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OriginPro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OriginLab Corporation</div><div>suggested: (Origin, RRID:SCR_014212)</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 current study include the small sample size that is unequal among groups, missing data at some timepoints, and the limited population diversity.

      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">NCT04910971</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">Quantification of Binding and Neutralizing Antibody Levels i…</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.29.21255526: (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">IACUC: Quality assessment was conducted based on study design: Cochrane risk of bias for non- randomized studies (ROBINS-I) for non-randomized studies,33 Cochrane Risk of Bias (version 5.1.0) for human-subject RCTs,34 and the Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation’s (SYRCLE) risk of bias for animal studies.</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">Quality assessment was conducted based on study design: Cochrane risk of bias for non- randomized studies (ROBINS-I) for non-randomized studies,33 Cochrane Risk of Bias (version 5.1.0) for human-subject RCTs,34 and the Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation’s (SYRCLE) risk of bias for animal studies.</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 MEDLINE strategy was peer reviewed by another senior information specialist prior to execution using the PRESS Checklist.</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">32 Using the multifile option and deduplication tool available on the OVID platform, we searched Ovid MEDLINE®, including Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Embase, and EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Embase</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Results were downloaded and deduplicated using EndNote version 9.3.3 (Clarivate Analytics) and uploaded to word.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EndNote</div><div>suggested: (EndNote, RRID:SCR_014001)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Quality assessment was conducted based on study design: Cochrane risk of bias for non- randomized studies (ROBINS-I) for non-randomized studies,33 Cochrane Risk of Bias (version 5.1.0) for human-subject RCTs,34 and the Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation’s (SYRCLE) risk of bias for animal studies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane Risk of Bias</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:
      There were significant limitations to many of the included studies. The primary endpoint of the vaccine randomized controlled trials were detection of test positive symptomatic COVID-19, however some studies presented data, which suggest a reduction in the likelihood of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR in the absence of documented symptoms after vaccination. Furthermore, it was not possible to directly compare findings across studies owing to variations in the assessment of symptom status, and the testing used and timing of these assessments. Also, the possibility of persistent PCR positivity after COVID-19 infection51 could not be excluded in some of the studies without baseline PCR assessment. Few studies included surveillance nasal swabs for PCR positivity. Most of the current data were around viral detection, rather than evidence of cultivatable virus. Therefore, there was limited data to evaluate the efficacy or effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in decreasing viral loads. In addition, there are only a limited number of epidemiologic data addressing evidence of forward transmission after vaccination. Based on the current evidence, we suggest the following:

      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

      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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.27.21259131: (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: Study design and setting: A cross sectional study utilizing quantitative data collection methods was conducted during the period of March-April 2021 after partial re-opening of schools in Uganda.</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 then used random sampling to select ten schools from the list using the Ms Excel randomizer.</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 and sampling procedure: The sample size was estimated using the Kish Leslie formula for cross-sectional studies (Kish, 1965).</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 then exported for analysis in Stata 14.0 statistical software (Statacorp, College station, Texas, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statacorp</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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259384: (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">For the present analysis, studies had to report mental health outcomes separately by sex (assignment based on external genitalia, usually at birth; e.g., female, male, intersex) or gender (socially constructed characteristics of roles and behaviours; e.g., woman, man, trans woman, trans man,</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">Then two reviewers independently evaluated titles and abstracts in random order; if either reviewer believed a study was potentially eligible, it underwent full-text review by two independent reviewers.</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">Yes: There is evidence that the authors conducted a sample size calculation to determine an adequate sample size OR the study was large enough (e.g., a large national survey) whereby a sample size calculation is not required.</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">, PsycINFO (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), EMBASE (Ovid), Web of Science Core Collection: Citation Indexes, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, medRxiv (preprints), and Open Science Framework Preprints</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PsycINFO</div><div>suggested: (PsycINFO, RRID:SCR_014799)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EMBASE</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">If not provided, we calculated it using Hedges’ g,31 as described by Borenstein et al.32 For each study, we then calculated a Hedges’ g difference in change between sex or gender groups with 95% CI.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Hedges’</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, RStudio Version 1.2.5042), using the metacont and metagen functions in the meta package.</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:
      There are limitations to consider. First, this review only included 11 studies from 9 cohorts, and many had limitations related to study sampling frames and recruitment methods, follow-up rates, and management of missing data. Second, heterogeneity was high for some meta-analyses. Third, there were not enough studies to attempt sub-group analyses by additional sociodemographic or other factors. Fourth, we did not identify any studies that compared results from gender-diverse individuals to other gender groups. In sum, we identified small sex- or gender-based differences for anxiety symptoms and general mental health, continuously measured, but other outcomes (continuous depression symptoms and stress; dichotomous anxiety symptoms, depression symptoms, general mental health, stress) were not different by sex or gender. These are aggregate results, though, and many individuals have certainly experienced negative mental health changes related to increased socioeconomic burden. Mental health changes should continue to be monitored in COVID-19, taking into consideration sex and gender, and studies should examine reasons for what appears to be resilience among many women despite facing disproportionate hardships in the pandemic.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.25.21259556: (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:
      Study strengths and limitations: This analysis benefited from the case study country (New Zealand) having a very clearly articulated elimination strategy, whereas the strategic approach is generally poorly defined for other OECD countries (ie, varying intensities of suppression and mitigation5 and sometimes shifting from mitigation to suppression as per the UK). The analysis was also able to supplement COVID-19 death rate data with “excess deaths” data to obtain a richer understanding of the likely health impacts. Focusing on OECD countries also allows for relatively standardised comparisons of economic data. Nevertheless, this analysis is both preliminary and fairly high-level. The pandemic is far from over globally and New Zealand could yet experience border system failures that result in major health and economic consequences (eg, before a high proportion of the population is vaccinated). In particular, the further economic recovery for other OECD countries with higher vaccination levels than New Zealand, could change the longer-term economic analysis. That is, the ultimate economic assessment of the pandemic responses should probably consider a multi-year period. More specific limitations that will have underestimated the health and economic benefits of New Zealand’s elimination strategy to date, include: But on the other-hand, our analysis did not quantify additional downsides of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response: We also used high-level economic metrics such as GDP which ...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.26.21259369: (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: IEC approval: The Institutional Ethical committee of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh approved the study prior to data 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">DIC scores and SIC scores were calculated according to the respective guidelines.(1),(3) Patients having active thromboembolic disease before symptom onset or before testing for COVID-19 and pregnant females were excluded from the 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">Sample size: Logistic regression of a binary response variable (Y) on a binary independent variable (X) with a sample size of 127 observations achieved 80% power.</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: The D-dimer levels (calculated by immune-turbidometric assay) and routine blood investigations within three days of hospital admission were collected.</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 were performed with the SPSS software version 25.</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 has limitations. First, owing to our study design we could analyze only the hospitalized patients which allowed us to include fewer mild severity disease cases in comparison to high prevalence of mild COVID 19 cases in the population. So, the results of mild cases cannot be extrapolated to the population as a whole. Hence, larger population studies are needed to confirm our finding. Second, the decision to perform CTPA was purely at the discretion of the treating physician. Hence, CTPA could not be done for all the 168 subjects. As a result, we could have missed some sub-clinical PE cases.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.25.21259519: (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">A total of 1075 respondents completed the third wave of the study, of which 688 (64%) were United States Veterans; median age of the sample was between 55 and 74 years old; 841 respondents (78%) were male, 819 respondents (76%) were non-Hispanic White, and the median household income was $70,000-$99,999.</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">Respondent assignment to study conditions was carried out using the built-in randomizer function in Qualtrics’ survey flow.</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">A total of 1075 respondents completed the third wave of the study, of which 688 (64%) were United States Veterans; median age of the sample was between 55 and 74 years old; 841 respondents (78%) were male, 819 respondents (76%) were non-Hispanic White, and the median household income was $70,000-$99,999.</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">All analyses were performed using RStudio statistical software (RStudio Team, 2021).</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:
      Limitations: Despite evidence that self-reports are good predictors of health behaviors (Webb & Sheeran, 2006), it is important that these findings are considered in the context of known limitations of this method (e.g., social desirability). The study design (i.e., US-based recruitment, online, and in English) prevents generalization of the present findings outside of the US and to people who may have limited internet access and lower English proficiency. Furthermore, our sample consists of both Veteran and non-Veteran respondents completing the third (and final) survey of a longitudinal study, which began in December, 2020 and thus are not representative of the general population.

      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

      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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      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.
      • 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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    1. sciscore 05 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.450920: (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 these datasets were downloaded from NCBI’s Short Read Archive (SRA) [19].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Short Read Archive</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Except for the nasal swab (NSPP) dataset [27], all datasets were processed using a snakemake pipeline that performs the following steps: samples are downloaded from the SRA, quality-control is performed using fastp [30], alignment to Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 38 version 91 is done using STAR [31], and isoform quantification carried out by RSEM [32].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RSEM</div><div>suggested: (RSEM, RRID:SCR_013027)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Reads classified as human using Kraken2 [33] were processed as described in https://github.com/asaravia-butler/COV-IRT/blob/main/RNAseq/Raw_to_Aligned_Data_Pipeline.md and https://github.com/asaravia-butler/COV-IRT/blob/main/RNAseq/RSEM_Counts_Pipeline.md. First, adapters and low-quality data were trimmed with Trimmomatic (v0.39) [34].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Kraken2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">Kraken2-human classified raw and trimmed read quality were evaluated with FastQC (v0.11.9) (https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/), and MultiQC (v1.9) [35] was used to generate MultiQC reports.</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><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">Homo sapiens STAR and RSEM references were built using STAR (v2.7.3a) [31] and RSEM (v1.3.1) [32], respectively, with Ensembl release 100 human genome version GRCh38 (Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.dna.primary_assembly concatenated with the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan-Hu-1 SARS-CoV-2 reference genome ASM985889v3, and the following Ensembl gtf annotation file: Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.100.gtf concatenated with Sars_cov_2.ASM985889v3.101.gtf. rRNA-depleted trimmed reads were aligned to the Homo sapiens and SARS-CoV-2 STAR reference with STAR twopassMode (v2.7.3a) [31].</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ensembl</div><div>suggested: (Ensembl, RRID:SCR_002344)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gene Ontology Analysis: We implemented a version of the Ontologizer [39] analysis code in our Java library phenol (https://github.com/monarch-initiative/phenol).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ontologizer</div><div>suggested: (Ontologizer, RRID:SCR_005801)</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.29.21257965: (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:
      As a final observation, we should stress the limitations of our approach. The estimates presented here remain intricately linked to the quality of information in the population samples. The IR sample is used here as the “best one yet”, but it is not the final sample. In the future, large new samples should ideally include subpopulations underrepresented here such as womenfolk, urban migrants, the peasantry and informal workers, and the slum population. They may also allow to better document the poorly understood socioeconomic and gender differentials in Covid-19 mortality. In addition, many questions remain unanswered such as the breakdown of Covid-19 deaths by sex or by region, the specific impact of the second wave and of the new Delta variant originating from India, and the contribution of local comorbidity pattern to the death toll.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.27.21258591: (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: Informed consent was obtained from all the human subjects who participated in the study and the protocols were approved by the institutional ethical</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">Mouse anti-human IgG antibody (BCAB-M ANTIHIgG-AW, 1.5mg/mL) was dispensed on a nitrocellulose membrane as a “IgG test” (IgG) line with a speed of 0.8 µL/cm,</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">mouse anti-human IgM antibody (BCAB-M ANTIHIgM-AW, 0.8mg/ml) was dispensed on a nitrocellulose membrane as a “IgM test” (IgM) line with a speed of 0.8 µL/cm, and 30% of BSA conjugated with latex particles and 2mg/ml of green pigment were fixed as a “control” (C) line.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgM</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: 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">NCT04833101</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 on Sequential Immunization of Recombinant COVID-19 Vac…</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259661: (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">, immunosuppression, baseline alanine transferase (ALT) above five times ULN (> 250 U/L), creatinine above 2.5 mg/ml, and not currently using antiandrogen drugs, and, in case of women, not pregnant or planning to become pregnant within 90 days and nor breastfeeding.</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 a post-hoc analysis of a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled, prospective, two-arm RCT22 describing the results of the RCT restricted to OT analysis, i.e., excluding patients that discontinued treatment before 14 days of drug treatment.</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 detailed description of the trial design, sample size calculation, settings, recruitment, patient selection criteria, randomization, blinding, procedures and statistical analysis are published in another manuscript and detailed elsewhere.</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">A detailed description of the trial design, sample size calculation, settings, recruitment, patient selection criteria, randomization, blinding, procedures and statistical analysis are published in another manuscript and detailed elsewhere.</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 was performed in Stata/SE version 16.1 for Mac (StataCorp LLC, 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></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 limitations inherent to post-hoc and retrospective analyses, although all the major barriers that could lead to confounding biases were addressed.25 Unbalanced actives and placebo distribution across sites and minor protocol modifications were the major weaknesses of the present RCT, while the lack of any modification of the ITT analysis prevented additional biases.21 The major confounding factor in the present analysis is the causality relationship between interrupting of treatment with proxalutamide and apparent higher mortality rate. Initially, differences in the mortality rate observed between the OT and ITT analysis could be due to the fact that patients tend to discontinue treatment in case of lack of response. Since the mortality rate was substantially lower in the proxalutamide arm compared to the placebo arm, and the number of non-completers was similar between these groups, similar increases in mortality rate would represent a higher increase in terms of percentage in the group with lower mortality rate, i.e., in the active arm. However, treatment non-compliance subjects in the placebo arm was not associated to poorer response compared to completers of the placebo arm. Conversely, non-completers of the proxalutamide arm had higher mortality rate compared to completers of the same arm and to the placebo arm. This reinforces the hypothesis of potential harm caused by abrupt and early interruption of proxalutamide. Indeed, in the male outpatient trial wi...

      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">NCT04728802</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">Proxalutamide Treatment for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients</td></tr></table>

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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 10.1101/2021.06.25.21259544: (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 Uniformed Services 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></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">Antibody testing: IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and receptor binding domain (RBD) were measured using microsphere-based multiplex immunoassays (MMIAs) built using Luminex xMAP-based technology as previously described (15) (Supplemental Methods).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and receptor binding domain (RBD</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">PASS was initiated in August of 2020 with study participants seen monthly at the Naval Medical Research Center Clinical Trials Center.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PASS</div><div>suggested: (PASS, RRID:SCR_005490)</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:
      Another limitation is that the cohort consisted of healthy volunteers without substantial immunocompromising conditions. We anticipate that studies in other cohorts will further inform the relevance of vaccine-associated symptoms to other populations and whether duration of vaccine symptoms correlates with vaccine-induced antibody titers. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that BNT162b2 vaccinations are commonly associated with both local and systemic symptoms. Symptoms are greater after second vaccination, are more common in younger individuals, and do not correlate with vaccine-induced antiviral IgG titers. These findings suggest that patients receiving the BNT162b2 vaccine should be reassured that lack of symptoms does not necessarily equate to lack of desired vaccine function. This study also suggests that it may be possible to design future mRNA vaccines that confer robust antibody responses with lower frequencies of vaccine-associated symptoms. Indeed, emerging studies suggest the balance between vaccine immunogenicity and reactogenicity can be better tuned for COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines as well (32).

      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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    https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.06.27.21259196
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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.27.21259196: (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: Study approval: Ethical approval was obtained from each medical center with informed consent covered by the original protocol.</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:
      An inherent limitation of this study is its retrospective design allowing only routinely measured data parameters to be evaluated. As a result, signature performance could not be compared to other commonly used severity scores or biomarkers and certain data points were not available (e.g., time from symptom onset) or missing. Also, the study period did not encompass multiple genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2. These limitations should be addressed in future independent signature validation studies. The signature was derived based on a population treated under protocols applied in the first and second waves of the pandemic, and its performance has not yet been evaluated in populations treated with newer approaches. Future studies are required to validate the performance of this novel severity signature and to establish its utility in the evolving workflow of COVID-19 patient management, specifically in supporting decisions on escalation and de-escalation of care. A notable benefit of this immune-based tool, as compared to severity scores already in use, is that it predicts immune dysregulation associated with lung damage (25–27). Furthermore, unlike other severity scores, the three constituent proteins and signature can be easily and rapidly measured at the point-of-need using one platform. In summary, the derived signature together with the rapid measurement platform have potential to serve as a practical predictive tool for early indication of COVID-19 patients at-risk for sever...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.25.21259525: (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 study was performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki and national guidelines and regulations for data privacy and all participants who completed the questionnaires provided 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

      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:
      4.3 Limitations and Areas for Future Research: One notable limitation of our study is that control data were only available from hospitalised paediatric patients in the US, entailing a comparison of patients from LMICs to controls in HICs. Furthermore, the age distribution of the children with and without Down syndrome differed and as we had only access to the summary statistics, we could not adjust our association analyses for age. Subsequent international studies should explore comparison with controls from a range of countries when suitable data become available. In addition, most of our cases from LMICs were from India (137/202), making generalisation of findings to other LMICs difficult. When reporting the ethnicity of patients, we used WHO categories, but the way in which ethnicity was reported varied among countries. We had limited data concerning about black, indigenous populations, Asian and other children representing minority ethnic groups in HICs, and may have overlooked risks unique to those groups. More attention should also be paid to non-hospitalised and asymptomatic paediatric COVID-19 patients with DS, who could experience long-term effects of COVID-19. Thus, future research should aim to determine if the symptoms of non-hospitalised children with DS differ from those of the general paediatric population. Because our control data pertained to hospitalised patients only, this analysis lay beyond the scope of this investigation. Future research must also inves...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259321: (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><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>

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      <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 x 104 Vero E6 cells were added into each well with and without SARS-CoV-2 (100 TCID50) to test viral CPE inhibition and cytotoxicity effects, respectively.</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">%Cytotoxicity in the validation experimental step was calculated in THLE-2 human liver and AC16 human cardiomyocyte cell lines.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AC16</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 analysis was performed in MATLAB R2020a (Mathworks, Inc.) (Blasiak et al., 2021).</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">GraphPad Prism 9 software (GraphPad Software) was used to plot D-R curves and derive EC50 of %Inhibition and CC50 of %Cytotoxicity of the validation set treatments (monotherapies and combinations).</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Limitations of the study: It is important to note that this study was conducted in an in vitro live virus model, and the subsequent preclinical and clinical dose optimization and evaluation will be needed. This study evaluated a pre-specified drug pool, and further studies with additional drug candidates are warranted. Developing a set of drug selection criteria such as drug class, administration route, prior evidence of interaction with other drugs, clinical relevance and accessibility may streamline the development of the drug pool. While the current study did not examine the immunomodulatory effects of the anti-inflammatories (SN-38, BRT), future work using applicable assays towards combination therapy development with immunomodulators is warranted as IDentif.AI 2.0 can be implemented in virtually all assays, provided quantifiable efficacy and toxicity readouts are available. Including immunomodulation will potentially create viable therapeutic options for severe patients as shown by recent clinical progress (Group et al., 2021). The IDentif.AI 2.0 workflow has some technical limitations, nonetheless, it is developed for rapid optimization and clinical actionability, and complementary strategies can be integrated to address them. First, the IDentif.AI interaction space interrogation assumes a quadratic relationship with the efficacy/cytotoxicity responses. The optimized combinations presented here are largely limited to two-drug combinations, rapidly identifying the most 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">NCT04575597</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">Efficacy and Safety of Molnupiravir (MK-4482) in Non-Hospita…</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.
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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.02.450896: (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">Euthanasia Agents: Inhibitor treatment: At 24h post transfection, cells were incubated for 6h with two pan-PC inhibitors: the cell permeable decanoyl-RVKR-chloromethylketone (cmk; 50 mM; 4026850.001; Bachem), or with the cell surface PC-inhibitor hexa-D-arginine (D6R; 20 μM; 344931; EMD).</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 proteins were revealed using a V5-monoclonal antibody (V5-mAb V2660; 1:5000; Invitrogen), ACE2 antibody (rabbit monoclonal ab108252; 1:3,000; Abcam),</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>V5-mAb</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>V2660</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">TMPRSS2 antibody (rabbit polyclonal; 14427-1-AP; 1:1,000; Proteintech)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Actin antibody (rabbit polyclonal A2066; 1:5,000; Sigma), HA-HRP antibody (12-013-819; 1:3,500; Roche), or SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody (rabbit polyclonal GenTex GTX135356; 1:2,000; GenTex).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HA-HRP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: (GeneTex Cat# GTX135356, RRID:AB_2887482)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Namely, 0.3 ml of media were immunoprecipitated with either 25 µl EZ view Red anti-HA affinity gel (E 6779; Sigma-Aldrich) or 1.2 µg ACE2 antibody (goat ployclonal AF 933; R&D) and 30 µl TrueBlot anti-Goat Ig IP beads (00-8844-25; Rockland Inc.), respectively, according to the manufacturers’ protocol.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-HA</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# E6779, RRID:AB_10109562)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Goat</div><div>suggested: (Rockland Cat# 00-8844-25, RRID:AB_2610705)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Upon SDS-PAGE separation and PVDF transfer, the immunoprecipitated proteins were detected using an HA-HRP antibody (12-013-819; 1:3,500; Roche) or ACE2 antibody (rabbit monoclonal ab108252; 1:3,000; Abcam) and TrueBlot anti-Goat IgG HRP (18-8814-31; Rockland Inc.), respectively. Microscopy: To establish the luciferase assay, cell co-cultures were plated on glass coverslips.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Goat IgG</div><div>suggested: (Rockland Cat# 18-8814-31, RRID:AB_2610843)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were incubated with primary antibodies overnight at 4°C using an antibody against V5 (mouse monoclonal R960-25; 1:1000; Invitrogen), Spike (mouse monoclonal GTX632604; 1:500; GeneTex) and ACE2 (goat polyclonal AF933; 1:500; RnDsystems).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>V5</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# R960-25, RRID:AB_2556564)</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">Enzymatic PC-inhibition by BOS-inhibitors: Biochemical assay: The proprotein convertases Furin (108-574-Tev-Flag-6His), PC5A (PCSK5; 115-63-Tev-Flag-6His), PACE4 (PCSK6; 150-693-Tev-Flag-6His), and PC7 (PCSK7; 142-634-Tev-Flag-6His) enzymes were purified from BacMam transduced CHO cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 603479/p746_CHO, RRID:CVCL_0213)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cellular assay: Analyses were initiated by the addition of U2OS cells simultaneously transduced with a BacMam-delivered construct containing a Golgi-targeting sequence followed by a 12-amino acid Furin/PCSK cleavage site from Bone Morphogenic Protein 10 (BMP10) and then GFP at the C terminus.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>U2OS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell culture and transfection: Monolayers of HeLa, HEK293T, HEK293T17</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">, Vero E6 and Calu-3 cells were cultured in 5% CO2 at 37°C in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM; Wisent) supplemented with 10% (v/v)</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">HEK293T-ACE2[98], a generous gift from Dr. Paul Bieniasz, were maintained in DMEM containing 10% FBS, 1% nonessential amino acids (NEAA) and 50 µg/ml blasticidin (Invivogen)</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CHO-ldlD cells, which are defective in UDP-Gal/UDP-GalNAc 4-epimerase [50] and therefore cannot O-glycosylate proteins, and their parental CHO-K1 cells were cultured in DMEM/F12 medium (50/50) (Wisent) supplemented with 3% FBS and F12K medium (Wisent) containing 10% FBS, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO-K1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In certain experiments, 293T17 cells were treated with BOS inhibitors at 6 h post transfection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T17</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell viability assay using MTT: Cells, seeded in a 96-well plate, the day before, at 10,000 (HEK-293T and Vero E6) or 50,000 (Calu-3) cells, were treated with serial 10-fold dilutions of BOS inhibitors for up to 48h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_A7UK)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell-to-cell fusion assay: HeLa or HeLa TZM-bl cells were plated at 200,000 cells in 12-well plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa TZM-bl</div><div>suggested: NIH-ARP Cat# 8129-442, RRID:CVCL_B478)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The relative light units (RLU) were measured using a Promega GLOMAX plate reader (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) and values were reported as fold increase over the RLU measured in co-culture of HeLa cells transfected EV with respective TZM-bl cells.</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">Protein immunoprecipitation from co-culture media: When indicated, the secreted form of double tagged Spike glycoprotein of Sars-CoV-2 (N-terminal HA tag and C-terminal V5 tag) and the TMPRSS2-shed forms of ACE2 receptor from the FBS containing media of co-cultured HeLA and HeLa-TZM-bl cells were immunoprecipitated for WB analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-TZM-bl</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plaque assay in Vero E6: Vero E6 cells (1.2 x 105 cells/well) were seeded in quadruplicate in 24-well tissue culture plates in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS two days before 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">Viral production in the supernatant was quantified using a plaque assay on Vero E6.1 cells as described above.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6.1</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">Plasmids: Single tagged (C-terminal V5 tag) or double tagged (N-terminal HA tag and C-terminal V5 tag) Spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 (optimized sequence) and its mutants were cloned into the pIRES2-EGFP vector.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pIRES2-EGFP</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_14998)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The plasmids pCI-NEO-hACE2 received from DW Lambert (University of Leeds) and pIRES-NEO3-hTMPRSS2 from P Jolicoeur (IRCM).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCI-NEO-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Luc.R-E-) was obtained from Dr. Nathaniel Landau through the NIH AIDS Reagent Program whereas the pHIV-1NL4-3 ΔEnv-NanoLuc construct was a kind gift from Dr. P</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-1NL4-3 ΔEnv-NanoLuc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plasmids encoding VSV-G, as HIV-1 Env and tat were previously described [96, 97].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><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">To generate HIV particles pseudotyped with SARS-CoV-2 S, 293T17 cells (600,000 cells plated in a 6-well vessel) were transfected with 1 µg pNL4-3.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Luc.R-E- (or pHIV-1NLΔEnv-NanoLuc) in the presence or absence of 0.3 µg pIR-2019-nCoV-S V5 plasmids using Lipofectamine-3000 (Life Technologies).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-1NLΔEnv-NanoLuc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>V5</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">Samples were visualized using a confocal laser-scanning microscope (LSM710, Carl Zeiss) with Plan-Apochromat 63x/1.40 Oil DIC M27 objective on ZEN software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ZEN</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plaques were counted manually and in parallel, imaged plaque plates were processed and plaques enumerated using an automated algorithm based Matlab software.</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">The results from experiments done with two biological replicates and two technical replicates in triplicates were used to calculate the IC50 by nonlinear regression using GraphPad Prism V5.0 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: 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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      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:
      A caveat to this study indicated that the short sampling time of ¼ hr–4 h might not be representative of the total air volume in the ward and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 might have possibly been diluted during air exchanges in the ward (Ong, S. W. et al. 2020). Another study in Northern Italy by Collovignarelli et al. put the association between particulate matter and COVID-19 in doubt. Collovignarelli et al. excluded a significant correlation between atmospheric particulate matter and the incidence of COVID-19. This latter study suggested that there may be other factors, including meteorological factors,that may have synergised with particulate matter to spread COVID-19. If one were to look closely at the provinces in Northern Italy as regards seeding and doubling time of COVID-19, the highest rates are to be found in land-locked provinces especially in Lodi, Bergamo, and Aosta. The impact of the vicinity to the sea as a factor determining COVID-19 rates has been alluded to (Muscat Baron 2020b) (Muscat Baron 2020c). By virtue of the absence of particulate matter sources from the sea, the level of this pollutant is likely to be lower and diluted in coastal provinces. Moreover the increased sodium chloride content in particulate matter derived from marine sources may have had a role in deterring the adhesion of the hydrophobic regions in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to particulate matter (Muscat Baron 2020c). One may surmise that the occurrence in the spikes of this pollutant 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.
      • 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">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: Yale University: The Institutional Review Board from the Yale University Human Research Protection Program determined that the RT-qPCR testing and sequencing of de-identified remnant COVID-19 clinical samples obtained from clinical partners conducted in this study is not research involving human subjects (IRB Protocol ID: 2000028599).</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">We visualized these data using Prism v.</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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Using BWA-MEM v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><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">We have previously shown that temporal estimates inferred using TreeTime agree with those inferred from BEAST for B.1.1.710, and we assumed this would also be the case for B.1.526*.</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></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 were some limitations to the epidemiological findings we have presented. First, we were not able to directly measure the secondary attack rates of individuals infected with B.1.1.7 or one of the B.1.526* sublineages. Collecting this information requires extensive contact tracing and sequencing of all secondary infections that are not available in Connecticut. Instead, we assumed that biases introduced by the method we employed in this study would be systematic across SARS-CoV-2 lineages so that estimates of the relative transmissibility of B.1.1.7 and B.1.526* would be unaffected. Second, we used a small subset of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 genomes for our phylodynamic analyses to make them computationally tractable. Incorporating a small proportion of available data into our analyses may have introduced biases, but by demonstrating the reproducibility of our findings with independent replicates (Supplemental Fig. 3), we substantially mitigated this issue. Finally, the scope of our study was limited to Connecticut and, in some cases, New York City, which may impinge upon the generalizability of our findings. However, our objective was to directly compare the fitness of B.1.1.7 and B.1.526*, and Connecticut is one of few locations with a robust genomic surveillance infrastructure where these variants emerged concurrently. Here, we present a framework that uses genomic data to estimate the effective reproduction number of individual virus lineages as a measure of relat...

      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">IRB: Ethics statement: Deidentified data were obtained from the Infections in Oxfordshire Research Database which has generic Research Ethics Committee, Health Research Authority and Confidentiality Advisory Group approvals (19/SC/0403, 19/CAG/0144).</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">PCR-positive samples were stored at -80℃ for WGS.</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">Combined epidemiological and genomic analysis was performed using R version 4.0.2 [21], with visualisation using ggplot2[22] and igraph[23] packages.</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">Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis were performed with MAFFT)[24]and IQTree[25] respectively; phylogenies were prepared and visualised using Treeswift[26] and Toytree[27].</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 data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      The main limitations of genomic data were two-fold. Firstly, although epidemiological data is available for all patients, genomic data is limited by sample availability and difficulty of generating sequences at low viral loads. Here 67% of the cohort were successfully sequenced, in line with other similar hospital cohorts (20-70%)[7,11,34]. As such, genomic data does not enable nosocomial acquisition to be ruled out. Incomplete hospital sequencing datasets suffer from an ‘absence of evidence’ when attempting to exclude nosocomial acquisition, which should not be mistaken for ‘evidence of absence’ of nosocomial acquisition. This may be mitigated in the future by integrated community epidemiological and genomic datasets, and could be addressed through probabilistic inference methods that can account for missing data, or by further optimising sequencing yields. Future approaches to evaluating transmission could also consider proxy markers of infectiousness such as Ct values (reflecting viral loads). Secondly, the rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in relation to viral evolution and the short time spans of outbreaks are insufficient for substantial genetic variation to accumulate, and therefore genomic data alone is insufficient to confer linkage or resolve the ordering of transmission; a combination of epidemiological and genomic data is required. A 1 SNP cut-off for defining linkage captures the majority of cases genuinely linked to the cluster, with the compromise of including a...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.30.21258984: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      In contrast, four other studies failed to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in mechanically-ventilated healthcare spaces despite obtaining substantially larger volumes of filtered air and placing air samplers proximal to infected patients.[43–46] We also did not detect SARS-CoV-2 in bathrooms or PPE doffing rooms, contrasting with other studies that found these to be high-risk areas, indicating that risk in these spaces may be context dependent.[47] Of the samples in which we detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA, the median copy number was less than 1 copy/L of air sampled, which is comparable to other studies where SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in air samples from healthcare settings.[10–14,48] Given that previous estimates have suggested an infectious dose of SARS-CoV-2 may be in the range of 100-300 virions,[49,50] this could indicate the risk from aerosol transmission may be substantial, especially given that cumulative exposure may be more important for establishing infection than exposure at a single time point.[51] However, it is difficult to translate results of air sample collection to exposure to infectious quanta given limitations of the sample collection process. A unique aspect of this study is an investigation of which parameters of ventilation have the greatest impact on air exchange in naturally-ventilated settings and subsequently how risk was modified by these factors. Ceiling height was found to be the most influential parameter in the elasticity analysis, which has been previously d...

      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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    1. sciscore 04 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.24.21255875: (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">Reads with high mapping quality (MQ > 25) were retained by SAMtools(14), and duplicated reads were marked with MarkDuplicates package in Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK)(15).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Genome Analysis Toolkit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Genomic variants were identified using uniquely mapped reads by HaplotypeCaller package in GATK.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HaplotypeCaller</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">Detection of intra-host variations: To identify the intra-host variant, mpileup files were generated by samtools v1.8 and then parsed by VarScan v2.3.9 along with an in-house script to identify intra-host variants.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VarScan</div><div>suggested: (VARSCAN, RRID:SCR_006849)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All intra-host variants identified had to satisfy the following criteria: (1) sequencing depth ≥ 100, (2) minor allele frequency ≥ 5%, (3) minor allele frequency ≥ 2% on each strand, (4) minor allele counts ≥ 10 on each strand, (5) strand bias of the minor allele < 10, (6) minor allele was supported by the inner part of the read (excluding 10 base pairs on each end), and (7) minor allele was supported by ≥ 10 reads that mapped exclusively to the genome of Betacoronavirus by Kraken v2.0.8-beta on each strand.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Kraken</div><div>suggested: (Kraken, RRID:SCR_005484)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Multiple sequence alignment was performed with MUSCLE v 3.8.31(20), and the UTR sequences of all sequences were truncated based on nucleotide coordinates of the reference genome (GenBank: MN908947.3)(12).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MUSCLE</div><div>suggested: (MUSCLE, RRID:SCR_011812)</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 10.1101/2021.06.24.21259435: (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 retrospective, observational study was conducted in the department of Pediatrics of Kalinga institute of Medical Sciences, a tertiary care hospital after obtaining clearance from institutional ethics 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></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 were performed using SPSS 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: 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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259421: (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 study was approved by the ethics committee of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán.</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: 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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259380: (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: Ethical approval for this study was granted by Regional Committees for Medical Research Ethics - South East Norway, reference number 249509.</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">Laboratory investigations and classification of variants: Variants were identified based on WGS using Illumina or Nanopore technology, partial sequencing by Sanger sequencing or PCR screening for selected targets.</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: 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 10.1101/2021.06.27.21259432: (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 design and participants: The study was reviewed and approved by the University Hospitals Health System (UHHS) institutional review board.<br>Consent: Informed consent, survey and study workflow: Participants were requested to provide informed consent, complete a survey, and get a single blood draw by venipuncture.</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">REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), a secure web application, was used for administering informed consent forms electronically, managing the surveys, and storing COVID antibody results.</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">The testing was performed using the Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay, a chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay on Architect i1000SR analyzers for detecting IgG antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2.</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">The SigmaPlot software automatically analyzes data for its suitability for Chi-Square or Fisher’s exact test and suggests the appropriate test based on the sample size of each group.</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:
      Despite their limitations, serological tests are important tools for assessing SARS-CoV-2 infection and potential immunity. Fifty-six antibody assays have received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by December 20, 2020. In general, lab-based assays, especially chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay assay performed on fully automated analyzers, have higher specificity compared to rapid tests (later flow immunoassay) according to the performance characteristics shown on the FDA webpage (https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices/eua-authorized-serology-test-performance). Assay specificity is critical in reducing false-positive rates for large scale survey in low prevalence population. Per the manufacturer’s package insert, the assay used in this study was estimated to have 100% sensitivity (>14 days post-symptom onset) and 99.6% specificity. An independent evaluation study by Bryan et al also confirmed excellent specificity (99.9%) of this assay 8. The estimated Positive Predictive Value and Negative Predictive Value at a prevalence of 5% were calculated to be 93.4% and 100%, respectively. By occupation, paramedics, EMTs, and firefighters showed similar seropositivity rates around 2-3%. The positivity rates are slightly lower than administrative or support staff. Analysis of self-reported exposure confirmed the high-risk nature of these occupations had signifi...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259644: (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: 2.1. Ethics: The Ain-Shams University Faculty of Medicine Research Ethics Committee’s (REC) ethical criteria were followed in this work.<br>Consent: After explaining the nature and purpose of the study, each participant gave verbal 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">Pregnant women and patients with any hematological diseases, immunodeficiencies, or autoimmune disorders were excluded from the study.</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 performed using SPSS 20.0 (IBM Corporation, NY, 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:
      This could be attributed to the small sample size, as well as the disproportion between the study groups, and these were the study’s major limitations. More research on a larger scale and for a longer period of time is needed to determine the predictive usefulness of the proposed inflammatory indices in comparison to the other existing biomarkers, in order to slow the disease’s progression and to put the epidemic to an end.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259672: (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:
      However, this comparative approach has limitations for forms of attrition bias resulting changes in health due to the experience of lockdown, such as increased attrition for individuals in distress. Furthermore, the risk of the Victorian COVID-19 outbreak spreading elsewhere nationally may have contributed to negative shifts mental health for people in the rest of Australia. In such circumstances, our findings may be underreporting the magnitude of mental health consequences, and of determinants of health, during lockdowns. The nature of lockdowns has substantially differed globally, in terms of the stringency of restrictions, durations, the repeated nature of lockdowns and government responses to them.1 Our findings describe the health impacts of a lockdown within the context of a stringent 112-day community lockdown in Victoria, Australia. However, the experiences we have observed may vary in other contexts. Thus, a need for similar studies across a range of scenarios and contexts is required to truly understand the impact of lockdowns on health and its determinants.

      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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    1. sciscore 04 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259570: (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 Ethics Committee of the University Heidelberg, Germany, written informed consent from all participants was obtained, and participants were financially compensated.<br>Consent: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Heidelberg, Germany, written informed consent from all participants was obtained, and participants were financially compensated.</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">The task consisted of a randomized block design, in which every block started with a jittered 3s presentation of the instruction form (i.e. ‘Look’ or ‘Reappraise’).</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">2.6 Functional MRI data analyses and statistical analyses: Statistical parametric mapping version 12 (SPM12) implemented in MATLAB R2017b was used to analyze functional MRI data.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statistical parametric mapping</div><div>suggested: (Spatial Statistical Parametric Mapping, RRID:SCR_002592)</div></div><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">PickAtlas v2.4(Maldjian, Laurienti</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PickAtlas</div><div>suggested: (WFU PickAtlas, RRID:SCR_007378)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mean contrast values of each participant were extracted from the FWE-corrected significant clusters in the contrasts of interest (Table 1) and exported to SPSS Statistics 25.</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:
      Some limitations of our findings need to be addressed. Only a third of our initial sample was able to take part in all COVID-19 assessments. Moreover, despite the quick start, we were unable to include the first days of the lockdown, which might have exerted the greatest effects on perceived stress. However, since we were particularly interested in coping with stress burden caused by the crisis, this time period appears to be appropriate to capture stress burden given that previous studies found no differences when comparing well-being, anxiety and depression in the initial phase of the pandemic to four weeks later (Vindegaard & Benros, 2020). In the framework of an ongoing longitudinal study following at-risk participants since birth, we thus provide first evidence for the predictive value of neural underpinnings of emotion regulation during the first and second lockdown and cognitive regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic between both waves. These findings may inform future prevention strategies seeking to foster stress coping in unforeseen situations.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259414: (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: Those who participated in the survey provided an informed consent and anonymously filled in a series of questionnaires aimed at assessing their emotional stress response to the COVID-19 healthcare emergency as well as a series of potential mental health outcomes including emotional exhaustion (burnout), depression, anxiety, psychosomatic and post-traumatic symptoms.<br>IRB: The study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the participant parties.</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 statistical analyses were conducted using R36 and IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, ver. 26.0.37</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 has limitations. Firstly, the response rate of our survey (32.9%), though similar to that of another recent study,28 does not allow us to claim representativeness of our sample. Secondly, the cross-sectional study design does not allow to assess the causal directions of the relationship between the COVID-related stress and the professionals’ wellbeing. Moreover, the unavailability of pre-emergency data did not allow to disentangle the potential impact of COVID-related stress from that of the usual workload. Although data collection occurred by self-report questionnaires, we used well-validated tools, except for the ad-hoc measure used to assess COVID-19 exposures and response. Finally, participants were enrolled from hospitals located in only one Italian region that was not a primary hotspot of the virus spreading during the first lockdown, but that was hit during subsequent waves of the pandemic,40 as confirmed by the 10% of respondents who had experienced the death of at least one significant other and 30% of them who had indirect experience of a relative or close friend who needed intensive care hospitalization.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259402: (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: Trial Oversight: The design was approved by the institutional review board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Massachusetts General Hospital (</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">Trial Design, Eligibility, Randomization and Recruitment: Eligibility for the trial and randomization strategy were determined by data availability and power considerations.</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">We determined that a sample of 820 counties would provide 80% power to detect effect sizes of 0.2 standard deviations for county-level outcomes, comparing intervention (H) vs. control (L).</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      No key resources detected.

      Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      There are several limitations of the study. First, it is was conducted with Facebook subscribers and mobility is collected for Facebook users. Although Facebook has a remarkable reach, this remains just one type of media. Second, it was an ad campaign. The messages might have been more effective if they had been relayed by celebrities or locally known figures (12,13). Third, we tested one kind of message, recorded by clinicians on smartphones. The results could be different changing message content, identity of the messenger, length of message, production value of the videos, or name recognition of the originating organization. Despite these limitations, the findings provide evidence that clinicians can be an effective channel to communicate life-saving information at scale, through social media. This a new role that physicians and nurses embraced during the COVID-19 crisis, and we demonstrate that this is another way in which they can prevent illness and save lives. These findings also demonstrate, in a clustered randomized control trial, the impact of a travel reduction, a key non-clinical intervention whose impact had not been evaluated in a randomized controlled trial before. The findings suggest directions for future work. In particular, would similar messages be effective in encouraging COVID-19 vaccine uptake?

      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">NCT04644328</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">The Doctors for Coronavirus Prevention Project Thanksgiving …</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.
      • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259558: (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: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (reference No. R2-079 and R3-006).<br>Consent: Participants provided informed consent by completing 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 13,468 (6,896 men and 6,572 women) of the remaining 27,036 participants who stated that they predominantly perform desk work were included in the 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">All analyses were conducted using Stata (Stata Statistical Software: Release 16; StataCorp LLC, 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></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 to this study. First, while we found an association between poor dietary habits and telecommuting frequency, these relationships may not be solely related to the impact of telecommuting, but the COVID-19 pandemic at large and a variety of other consequences such as staying at home and reduced interaction with people. Second, because this was a cross-sectional study, we cannot prove causality. However, we believe that it is logically unlikely that dietary habits could directly affect telecommuting. Third, we examined both the frequency of telecommuting and eating habits in the questionnaire. Dietary surveys are associated with several well-known disadvantages, including under-reporting, over-reporting, and bias.[34,35] In addition, we did not specify a time period in our questions. Because of the inter-day variability in dietary intake, the impact of these factors on our results is unclear.[36]

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259620: (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">We analyse longitudinal data from two phone surveys conducted in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru, and Vietnam during August-October and November-December 2020.6 Our sample contains participants aged 18-19 and 25-26, including 4,702 males (51%) and 4,493 females (49%) from the Young Lives study,7 a poverty-focused cohort study, established in 2002.</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 main limitation of this study is the lack of causal inference, given the potential bidirectional relationship between food insecurity and mental health. Further, we do not capture the multidimensionality of food insecurity. The world’s food insecure are severely, and continuously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cash transfer programs (CTPs) should be expanded, and conditionality reduced/waived in LMICs to address immediate needs around food insecurity and help break the vicious cycle between the onset/persistence of mental health disorders and poverty. Further, CTPs could distribute accurate, non-stigmatised information about COVID-19 and access to mental health services using their existing communication tools.22 More research is needed into factors which contribute to mental health resilience during the pandemic and non-COVID-19 stressors in Ethiopia.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21256779: (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: 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">NCT04832932</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 COVID-19 Back-to-Normal Study</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21258847: (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 form that included statements about voluntary participation and anonymity was sought from all the respondents prior to data collection by sending a standardized general invitation letter with the survey link to accept or decline to participate in the study.<br>IRB: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of university of Sharjah in the on: 22/3/2021, with the reference No: REC-21-02-09-07. Survey & Data collection: The Survey was designed based on previous extensive literature search studies, and guidelines of WHO, MOHAP, DOH in UAE on the expected Adverse reactions post Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.</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">The study utilized a self-administered online survey created on Google Forms of platform which had been randomly delivered to adults’ individuals (18 years and older) using social media sites (Facebook, Email, and WhatsApp).</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 Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL, USA, 2013) was used to carry out descriptive statistics of 1080 participants for the demographic variables (gender, age, education level, marital status, employment status, nationality and Emirate of residence.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statistical Package for the Social Sciences</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259631: (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">Monthly mean of these twelve environmental variables were further processed in ArcGIS software, adjoined and related with the monthly cumulative counts of confirmed and recovery cases for each months for each of those selected districts.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ArcGIS</div><div>suggested: (ArcGIS for Desktop Basic, RRID:SCR_011081)</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 5. 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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259415: (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: 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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259039: (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">Systematic review: During April 2021 we searched PubMed for articles combining COVID and SARS-CoV-2 separately with each of the following terms: ARR, RRR, NNT, NNV, risk-benefit, and NNH.</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">We also supplemented this search of the medical and public health literature by using a two general search engines, DuckDuckGo and Google, with the same search terms.</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></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 limitations of study: Our findings based on limited data available led to concerns about the vaccines’ impact in reducing absolute risk below the baseline risks for pertinent population groups, as well as about the comparative benefits versus harms of the vaccines. From our calculations using data from two major RCTs and one population-based assessment, we concluded that the impact of the vaccines in reducing the risk of symptomatic infection below the baseline risk as measured by ARR is small, and the NNV to prevent one symptomatic infection is substantial. Measures of harm and comparisons of harms versus benefits by calculation of ARI and NNH are challenging to achieve with published data from these trials. The NNHs that we calculated were in a range comparable to the benefits of the vaccines as indicated by NNVs. While we were not able to resolve the question of benefits versus harms, our limited analysis revealed that they were not dramatically different and that the NNHs were low for some outcomes. Compared to prior vaccines such as influenza and smallpox, the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines in the RCTs and effectiveness in the population-based study appeared somewhat less impressive. Importantly, the sensitivity analysis of the vaccines’ benefits showed that the ARRs and NNVs are more favorable in areas with higher baseline rates of disease. This variability in effectiveness related to varying baseline risks leads to some possibly helpful policy recommen...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259020: (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 Ethics Committee VUmc (Amsterdam, the Netherlands); All necessary patient consent has been obtained and archived.<br>Consent: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee VUmc (Amsterdam, the Netherlands); All necessary patient consent has been obtained and archived.</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">Contamination: Relevant tests included blood and sputum cultures, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and tracheal fluids, PCRs for Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila and Chlamydia pneumonia, and Legionella and pneumococcal urinary antigen tests.</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:
      By means of this study, we addressed the limitation of previous reports, i.e. co-infection is not confirmed or ruled out by microbiological test results alone (19). Indeed, we found that only 11/38 (29%) patients classified as possible or probable co-infection had positive microbiological test results. Conversely, 4/15 (27%) positive microbiological test results were considered contamination, colonization or were due to extra-pulmonary infection. One recent study by Karaba et al. also included clinical and radiological criteria to assess the frequency of co-infection and concluded that co-infection was proven in 0.3%, probable in 1.1% and possible in 48% of patients (12). In contrast to our study, the authors found co-infection unlikely in only 51% of patients. This large difference could be explained by the different criteria used for co-infection. Karaba et al. classified patients meeting one clinical criterion (with the exception of hypoxia) or patients with positive radiological criteria on chest radiograph or chest CT as possible co-infection. This approach is likely to lead to overestimation of possible co-infection. We combined multiple clinical criteria with radiological and microbiological findings and a final classification by an expert panel. Furthermore, Karaba et al. included both chest radiograph and chest CT while chest CT has a higher sensitivity and specificity for bacterial CAP compared to chest radiograph (20). Chest CT was an important factor in our catego...

      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: Ethical Statement: The PHO Ethics Review Board has determined that this project did not require research ethics committee approval, as it describes analyses that were completed at PHO Laboratory as part of routine clinical respiratory testing and surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario and are, therefore, considered public health practice and exempt from this requirement.</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">In addition, a subset of all SARS-CoV-2 positive specimens underwent WGS as part of the provincial genomic surveillance program, which included VOC screening.</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">In addition, a BLAST search of the primer and probe sequences against the whole genome of the reference sequence (MN908947.3) was conducted to ensure the absence of homology to other parts of the SARS-CoV-2 genome.</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></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.
      • Thank you for including a protocol registration statement.

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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:
      Other limitations of our study relate to the virological properties of the virus. Specifically, we are not considering different variants of SARS-CoV-2 and their effect in the epidemiological component of our SEIR model. The model was calibrated based on the Czech epidemiological situation from March to June 2020. However, different epidemic levels in our simulations, spanning an order of magnitude in infected imports, indicate the robustness of our results. Additionally, the model may be extended by calibrating its parameters to different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus or even to different viruses altogether provided that the relevant transmission pathways are interpersonal contact networks such as with other respiratory diseases. Our results indicate the roles of specific components of elementary school operation in the spread of covid-19 and the effectiveness of selected measures and school regimes on the spread of covid-19 within schools. They do not pertain in any way to the role of schools themselves in the spread of covid-19 in the entire population. To our knowledge, this is the first agent-based model assessing the effectiveness of individual measures on covid-19 spread in a school setting based on real contact networks derived from empirical data. Our contact network data align with previous research based on both simulated data (McGee et al., 2021) or contact networks obtained using wearable sensors (Gemmetto et al., 2014; Stehlé et al., 2011) in showing densely ...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.27.21259271: (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: Ethics Approval: The study was approved by the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee.<br>IRB: It received a Not Research Determination (IRB20-1394) from the Harvard Institutional Review Board as it was deemed Public Health Surveillance.</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 conducted randomized, multistage sampling, with the first stage of sampling being proportionate to the most recent population size estimate.</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: 8 We further validated the test with a control panel of 58 local specimens tested by nasopharyngeal swab, which was comprised of 10 RT-PCR negative, 8 RT-PCR positive, and 40 serial dilutions of positives specimens and also found combined IgM/IgG sensitivities and specificities of 100%.</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 10.1101/2021.06.28.21259529: (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">Genomic data: The genomic data used in this study were from three sources: the Africa 6K project (referred to as the the “African Diversity” dataset) which is part of the TopMed consortium25, the 1000 Genomes project (1KG)26, and the Penn Medicine BioBank (PMBB).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TopMed</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Whole genome sequencing (WGS) was performed to a median depth of 30X using DNA isolated from blood, PCR-free library construction and Illumina HiSeq X technology, as described elsewhere25.</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">The 1000 Genomes datasets with super population ancestry labels (EUR, AFR, EAS, SAS, Other) were used as QDA training datasets to determine the genetic ancestry labels for the PMBB population.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>1000 Genomes</div><div>suggested: (1000 Genomes Project and AWS, RRID:SCR_008801)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Variant annotations: We used Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) for variant annotations27.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Variant</div><div>suggested: (VARIANT, RRID:SCR_005194)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For pathogenicity predictions, we used CADD28, SIFT29, PolyPhen30, Condel31, and REVEL scores in Ensembl.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ensembl</div><div>suggested: (Ensembl, RRID:SCR_002344)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We visualized the location of these regulatory and eQTL variants using the UCSC genome browser and highlighted the variants using Adobe Illustrator.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Adobe Illustrator</div><div>suggested: (Adobe Illustrator, RRID:SCR_010279)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Association Testing: We used the R SKAT package for conducting a gene-based dispersion test and Biobin37; 38 for gene burden analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SKAT</div><div>suggested: (SKAT, RRID:SCR_009396)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The chimpanzee sequence (Clint_PTRv2/panTro6) used in the analysis was obtained from the UCSC genome browser.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCSC genome browser</div><div>suggested: (UCSC Genome Browser, RRID:SCR_005780)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The overlapped SNPs were uploaded to the UCSC browser for visualization.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCSC browser</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The ChIP-seq density dataset was obtained from http://remap.univ-amu.fr/ 33. DNase-seq and ChIP-seq clusters, layered H3K4Me3 (often found near Promoters), H3K4Me1 and H3K27Ac (often found near Regulatory Elements) data are from ENCODE32.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ChIP-seq</div><div>suggested: (ChIP-seq, RRID:SCR_001237)</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.

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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.26.21259239: (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: COVIDsortium Healthcare Worker Participants: The COVIDsortium bioresource was approved by the ethical committee of UK National Research Ethics Service (20/SC/0149) and registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04318314).<br>Consent: All subjects gave written informed consent and the study conformed to the principles of the 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">Other experiments were not randomized and the investigators were not blinded to allocation during experiments and outcome assessment.</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">Other experiments were not randomized and the investigators were not blinded to allocation during experiments and outcome assessment.</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">Power calculations were performed prior to week 16 sub-study sampling to determine the sample size needed to test the hypothesis that HCW with pre-existing T cell responses are enriched in exposed uninfected group at a range of incidence of infection, assuming 50% of cohort had pre-existing T cell responses.</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: Spike ELISA: Seropositivity against SARS-CoV-2 spike was determined for medical student and laboratory staff cohort between July 2020 and Jan 2021 (Extended Data Table 4) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, as validated and described previously50,60,61.</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">Lab confirmed infection was determined by weekly nasopharyngeal RNA stabilizing swabs and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR; Roche cobas SARS-CoV-2 test, Envelope [E] gene) and antibody assay positivity (Spike protein 1 IgG Ab assay, EUROIMMUN) and anti-nucleocapsid total antibody assay (ROCHE) described in detail below.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Spike protein 1 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-nucleocapsid total</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ELISpot plates were developed with human biotinylated IFN-γ detection antibody (7-B6-1, Mabtech; 1μg/ml) for hr at RT, followed by incubation with goat anti-biotin alkaline phosphatase (Vector Laboratories; 1:1000) for 2 hr RT, both diluted in PBS with 0.5% BSA by volume (Sigma-Aldrich), and finally with 50 μl/well of sterile filtered BCIP/NBT Phosphatase Substrate (ThermoFisher) for 7 min RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-biotin alkaline phosphatase</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were washed in PBS and incubated in perm buffer (TF staining buffer kit, diluted 1:10 in ddH2O) for 20 mins RT, washed in PBS and resuspended in perm buffer with saturating concentrations of anti-human antibodies for intracellular staining: IL-2 PerCp-eFluor710 (Invitrogen, clone MQ1-17H12)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CTV dilution and staining with anti-human-IFNγ antibodies was used to identify antigen-specific T cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human-IFNγ</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">4 × 104 Huh7 cells suspended in 100 μl complete media were added per well and incubated for 72 hr at 37 °C and 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Huh7</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After initial incubation, pre-seeded Vero E6 cells were infected with the serum-virus samples and incubated (37 °C and 5% CO2) for 72 hr.</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">COVIDsortium Healthcare Worker Participants: The COVIDsortium bioresource was approved by the ethical committee of UK National Research Ethics Service (20/SC/0149) and registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04318314).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>COVIDsortium Healthcare</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The curves of relative infection rates (in %) versus the serum dilutions (log10 values) against a negative control of pooled sera collected prior to 2016 (Sigma) and a positive neutraliser were plotted using Prism 9 (GraphPad).</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">ODs were measured using a MultiskanFC (Thermofisher Scientific) plate reader at 405 nm and S1-specific IgG titers interpolated from the IgG standard curve using 4PL regression curve-fitting on GraphPad Prism 8.</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">Brilliant Violet Buffer (BD Biosciences): CD3 Bv510 (Biolegend, clone OKT3)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Biosciences)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were analysed by FlowJo version 10.7 (TreeStar)</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">A protein BLAST search of each 15mer peptide was then performed against a custom sequence database comprising 2531 Coronaviridae sequences40.</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">Sequences were aligned using the MUSCLE algorithm with default parameters and percentage identity was calculated in Geneious Prime 2020.1.2 (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MUSCLE</div><div>suggested: (MUSCLE, RRID:SCR_011812)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">(https://www.geneious.com).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://www.geneious.com</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">Alignment figures were made in Snapgene 5.1 (GSL Biotech). qPCR: Total RNA from Tempus blood was extracted using the Tempus Spin RNA isolation kit (Applied Biosystems, 4380204). cDNA was obtained using the High-Capacity cDNA Reverse Transcription Kit (Applied Biosystems).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Snapgene</div><div>suggested: (SnapGene, RRID:SCR_015052)</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">NCT04318314</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">COVID-19: Healthcare Worker Bioresource: Immune Protection a…</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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      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.01.450707: (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">Neutralization assays for the different variants were performed in parallel on Hek293T target cells stably expressing the human ACE2 and human TMPRSS2 genes (VectorBuilder; Cat. CL0015).</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><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">) C-terminally truncated by 19 amino acids was cloned into a derivative of the pCDNA3.1 expression vector (Thermo Fisher Scientific).</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></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">NCT04505722</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 Ad26.COV2.S for the Prevention of SARS-CoV-2-Medi…</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.

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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: All participants signed an informed consent before any study procedure was undertaken.<br>IRB: Ethical approval: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad de Chile (Projects N° 0361-2021 and N° 096-2020) and Clínica Santa Maria (Project N°132604-21).</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">Different amounts of pseudotyped viruses (as determined by the levels of the HIV-1 p24 protein) were used to infect HEK-ACE2 cells and 48 hours later, firefly luciferase activity was measured using the Luciferase Assay Reagent (Promega) in a Glomax 96 Microplate luminometer (Promega).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293T cells (not expressing ACE2) incubated with the pseudotyped virus (lineage A) were used as a negative control.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</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">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, HIV-1-based SARS-CoV-2 pseudotypes were produced in HEK293T cells by transfecting the pNL4.3-ΔEnv-Luc together with the corresponding pCDNA-SARS-CoV-2 Spike coding vector in a 1:1 molar ratio.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pNL4.3-ΔEnv-Luc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCDNA-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">The percentage of neutralization for each dilution was calculated and the ID50 of each sample was calculated using GraphPad Prism version 9.0.1.</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 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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      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 present study was performed with surplus serum samples from routinely tested hospitalized COVID-19 patients, following a protocol reviewed and approved by the Hospital Vall d’Hebron Institutional Review Board (Medical Research Ethics Committee, protocol number PR(AG)329-2020).<br>Field Sample Permit: Immuno-phenotyping: Blood was collected in vacutainer tubes containing ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) as anticoagulant (BD-Plymouth, PL6 7BP, UK) and processed within 4 h after 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">Study design: We studied a group of patients with COVID-19 (249 men and 248 women) admitted at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital between May 1st through June 30th 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">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">ROC curves were calculated with the logistic regression model implemented in STATA 14 and the EasyROC web tool (http://www.biosoft.hacettepe.edu.tr/easyROC/), Odd Ratios (OR) were calculated by transforming areas under the curve (AUC) with the Effect Size Converter web tool (https://www.escal.site/).</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">Principal Component Analysis (PCA), multivariate correlation analysis and other calculations, as well as graphic representations, were performed with GraphPad Prism 9.0.2.</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 limitations of our study include its observational nature on retrospective patients and samples, which has precluded the collection of samples at precisely equivalent time points after symptom onset for all patients. This has most notably impacted longitudinal studies of immune populations which, in the present study, was limited to two temporally separate determinations per male patient studied. A follow-up study is currently ongoing aimed at expanding the present study in this regard, including longitudinal analyses in women. On the other hand, several hypotheses laid out here would require formal testing by means of approaches that are not addressed in the present study. For example, the various mechanisms postulated to explain the depletion of circulating differentiated effector T cells in lethal COVID-19 patients would benefit from additional analyses of senescent and activation states of such populations with appropriate markers, as well as detailed analyses of viral infection and immune cell populations infiltrating key tissues, mainly lung and testis. Finally, pre-clinical animal models would be required for a robust experimental demonstration of mechanistic relationships between testosterone status (e. g., deprivation and replacement) and SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes, which should also contemplate factors such as age.

      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: Study Design: This study was reviewed and approved by the research ethics board of the CHU de Québec – Université Laval (MP-20-2021-5228) and all protocols were reviewed by an independent Scientific Review Committee.<br>Consent: All participants provided an online informed consent prior to 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">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: Given the cross-sectional design of the study, a recall bias is possible for all self-reported peri-SARS-CoV-2 infection values before or during the SARS-CoV-2 infection due to the 3-to-7-month gap. This study did not control for potential confounding factors like race and level of education. Finally, the CPT requires further validation for its gustatory and trigeminal components, and it relies on substances found in participants’ homes, which may lead to variation in test results due to the differences in the brand, quality, or expiration date of substances and consequently, their ability to trigger equal sensorineural responses.

      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/10.1101/2021.06.27.21259575
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    1. sciscore 03 Jul 2021

      SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.27.21259575: (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">Our final database consisted of 4,375,174 individuals 80 years and older, 2,711,186 females, and 1,663,988 males.</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, our analysis is not free of limitations. As with any database, vaccination records may contain both content and coverage errors. Concerning the potential coverage errors, some individuals ages 80 and older may have refused to vaccinate. Yet, we expect older individuals to be more prone to vaccinate because of the higher mortality risk associated with COVID-19. Also, it is unclear to what extent functional limitations and other chronic conditions have hindered some of the 80+ individuals from getting vaccinated. The consolidation of the Brazilian public health system (universal, integral, and decentralized) that resulted in expanding healthcare services and success in earlier vaccination campaigns makes us confident about the high coverage of vaccination records at older ages.

      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 10.1101/2021.06.26.21259581: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      There are limitations to our models. First, the data we used for model inference were from infected individuals with relatively mild or no symptoms (23, 25), who rapidly cleared the virus. The parameter values and relationships we estimated between VL and infectiousness thus may be biased towards mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. Further work is needed to extend our analysis to individuals with different levels of symptom severity (47). However, we note that people with severe symptoms will likely often be quarantined and contribute less to the spread of the virus. Second, the relationship between VL and the number of infectious particles is inferred from data aggregated from many individuals, and thus it assumes homogeneity across individuals. Further work measuring individual level heterogeneity in the relationship between infectious viral shedding and VL will help to characterize heterogeneity in individual infectiousness and help make more precise predictions of the impact of testing strategies on transmission. Overall, our model linking within-host VL dynamics to infectiousness provides a crucial tool for evaluating both non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical interventions, and aiding public health policy decisions (48). For example, there is an emerging need to quantify the extent of transmission of asymptomatic individuals and particularly of school-aged children (49), who may have a similar range of VLs as adults (30). Administration of vaccines or effec...

      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 10.1101/2021.06.23.21259405: (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 code and data.

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Study Limitations: We acknowledge there are certain overarching limitations in our work. First, under-reporting of cases and deaths attributed to COVID-19 is not aptly accounted for across these results. At the time of this report, officials have reported intermittent excess death calculations for selected cities (60–62) and for even fewer states in India, and hence, adjusting for under-reporting remains a challenge (62). All reports point to a large degree of underreporting, particularly in rural India (48). Similar considerations apply for infections. While we characterize effects of NPI on reported cases this only captures a small fraction of infections. The more recent serosurveys that are emerging indicate 55% seropositivity in age-groups 0-17 and 63% in adults in urban areas (63). Second, the lack of disaggregation of cases and deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the data available at the time of this study prohibits any investigation into differences within age-sex strata and identify vulnerable, underserved subgroups. This limits our ability to interpret some of the observations. For example, the apparent overall lower infection fatality rate in Wave 2 can be largely due to younger people getting infected. An age-specific fatality comparison is necessary but could not be performed. Third, our models do not incorporate vaccine roll-out. For further context, during the Wave 2 analysis period, about 3% of India was fully vaccinated and 10% received at least one dose (based ...

      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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