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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.21.21255553

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.21.21255553: (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">Data analysis: All statistical analyses were done using STATA version 15.1</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">(StataCorp LLC, Coledge 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:
  While the use of an online panel could be considered as a study limitation, we should mention that considering pandemic-related restrictions, the use of an online study was the only option in practice. Both data collections were done during national lockdowns when all schools and universities were closed, non-essential workplaces in the public sector were closed and the private sector was recommended to close or restrict the number of people working; personal movement was restricted to within one’s municipality and operation of the public transport was limited. While food stores were open, non-essential stores were mostly closed. There was governmental advice in place to stay at home and to limit contact with others, while gatherings in public places were limited. We should note that, for some people, these circumstances might have limited the access of participants to vitamin D supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quota sampling approach enabled a fair balance between the genders, age groups, and urban and rural areas. However, the approach used is also subject to limitations. The requirements for computer/smartphone use and internet access denied the inclusion of participants of the lowest socio-economic status. On the other hand, Slovenia has a very good internet infrastructure, and most households use computers. According to data from the Slovenian Statistical Office, more than 80% of the Slovenian population (16-74 years) is using internet (STAT, 2019). Also, ho...
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.21.21255866

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.21.21255866: (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: As social media platforms were part of the main delivery system, all participants mandatorily gave their informed consent asserting to know their privacy would be protected following the Declaration of Helsinki and national laws.<br>IRB: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Favaloro Foundation.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gender was reduced to three main categories: female, male and other.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 present study has several limitations. First, the survey was disseminated incidentally. Nevertheless, all the country’s provinces were sampled. Also, as the survey was disseminated through social media networks and e-mails, it is possible that a bias occurred towards participants with higher education and income levels. Second, as noted previously, self-report methods may overestimate the rate of psychiatric disorders in comparison with the more reliable gold standard of diagnostic interviews. A recent meta-analysis about the use of the PHQ-9 for the screening of major depressive episodes in primary care found that approximately half of patients with positive screens could be false positives (38). It is important to prudentially consider the present results and to avoid jumping into clinical conclusions. Complementary and more precise procedures should be adopted to confirm or reject any assumption of diagnosis. Third, our sample was unbalanced in gender, with females being overrepresented over other options. Female gender is associated with increased rates of anxiety and depression in epidemiological studies, so sampling bias may have inflated the figures of emotional symptoms of our study. Fourth, due to the observational nature of the study, it is not possible to disentangle the effects produced by the pandemic itself from the impact of the lockdown. Our analyses are not intended to estimate the causal effect between variables nor be an exhaustive analysis of the conte...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.440626

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.440626: (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">Each test and curve fitting were performed using GraphPad Prism version 8.0.0 (GraphPad Software, GraphPad Software, San Diego, California 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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.18.21255684

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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.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.21.440697

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.21.440697: (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: Both studies were approved by the Institutional Review Board at Benaroya Research Institute (IRB20-036 and IRB07109 respectively).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><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">Primary antibody (Table S3) incubation with antibodies against OAS1 (CST)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OAS1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">24h after transfection, cells were lysed in Co-IP (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5; 150 mM NaCl; 0.5% NP40; 1 mM EDTA) buffer and OAS1 proteins were immunoprecipitated from the lysate using 20 µg anti-FLAG antibody (Sigma) and Dynabeads Protein G.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-FLAG</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 three times with PBS and then stained with the secondary antibodies goat anti-rabbit IgG Alexa Fluor 488 (Themo Fisher) and goat anti-mouse IgG Alexa Fluor 648 (Thermo Fisher) in PBS containing 1% BSA and 0.3% Triton X-100 for 1 hour in the dark at room temperature (Table S2).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: (GenWay Biotech Inc. Cat# GWB-648F4B, RRID:AB_10276759)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">WNV infected cells were washed three times with PBS and then stained with the secondary antibodies goat anti-rabbit IgG Alexa Fluor 488 (Themo Fisher)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-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">HEK293T, A549, Vero, PH5CH8, Huh7, and HeLa cells were grown in DMEM (Sigma) containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Atlanta Biologicals) and 1% penicillin-streptomycin-glutamine (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">OAS1 and RNASEL KO 293T were generated using lentiviral transduction as described previously followed by selection in 2 μg/mL puromycin or blasticidin (Lau et al., 2015)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RNASEL KO 293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">G into 293FT cells for lentiviral packaging.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293FT</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# PTA-5077, RRID:CVCL_6911)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">293T cells were transduced with ACE2-expressing lentivirus and selected with puromycin (2 mg/mL) for 4 days to generate 293T-ACE2 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_YZ65)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">THP-1 cells were differentiated with PMA for 24h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>THP-1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For EMCV, WNV, CVB, and IAV infections, OAS1 KO 293T cells were seeded in 12 well plates coated with 10 μg/mL poly-L-ornithine hydrobromide (Sigma) and allowed to adhere overnight.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OAS1 KO 293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For EMCV and WNV, titration was performed on Vero cells grown to 90% confluency in 6-well plates.</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">IAV was titered on MDCK cells grown to 90% confluency in 12-well plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MDCK</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For infections, 293T-ACE2 cells seeded in 24-well plates (100,000 cells/well) were transfected with 250ng of plasmid (Empty vector, p42, p46, and p46 ATIL) using the TransIT X2 kit (Mirus).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-ACE2</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_YZ65)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Supernatants were harvested at 48hpi, and serial dilutions were tittered on Vero E6 cells seeded at 90% confluency in 12-well plates.</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">RNA immunoprecipitation: OAS1 KO Huh7 cells were seeded the day before transfection with FLAG-p42, FLAG-p42CTIL, FLAG-p46, FLAG-p46ATIL or an EV control using TransIT-X2 (Mirus Bio).</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><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of knockout cell lines using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing: Cloning of OAS1 targeting guide RNA (gRNA) 5′-GTGCATGCGGAAACACGTGTCTGG-3′ into pRRLU6-empty-gRNA-MND-Cas9-t2A-Puro vector or RNase L targeting gRNA 5′-GTTATCCTCGCAGCGATTGCGGGG-3′ into pRRLU6-empty-gRNA-MND-Cas9-t2A-Blast was achieved using the In-Fusion enzyme mix (Clontech).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pRRLU6-empty-gRNA-MND-Cas9-t2A-Puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pRRLU6-empty-gRNA-MND-Cas9-t2A-Blast</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This amplicon was cloned into a pLEX lentiviral backbone cut with BamHI and XhoI using the InFusion HD kit (Takara).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLEX</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_117987)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">pLEX-ACE2 was co-transfected with psPAX2 and pMD2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLEX-ACE2</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>pMD2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">N-terminal FLAG-tagged versions of OAS1 p42 and p46 were generated by cutting pcDNA3.1 OAS1 p42, p42CTIL, p46 and p46ATIL with BamHI and cloning of a 3xFLAG fragment by PCR amplification from pEF FLAG-ZAP-L (Schwerk et al., 2019) and Gibson assembly using primers 5′-CGACTCACTATAGGGAGACCCAAGCTTGGTACCGAGCTCGATGGACTACAAAGAC-3′ and 5′-GTCCAGAGATTTGGCTGGGGTATTTCTG AGATCCATCATGCTTGTCATCGTCATCCTTGTAATCGATG-3′ (Table S1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA3.1 OAS1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pEF FLAG-ZAP-L</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Expression plasmids encoding p42DADA, p46DADA in pCDNA3.1 were generated by site-directed mutagenesis on pCDNA3.1 p42 or p46.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCDNA3.1 p42</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, pcDNA3.1 FLAG-OAS1 p46 was cut with KflI and ApaI. gBlocks were PCR-amplified using the following primer pair 5′-TAAGAATTGGGATGGGTCCCCAG-3′ and 5′-GACACTATAGAATAGGGCCCTCTAGA-3′ and then cut with with KflI and ApaI.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA3.1 FLAG-OAS1 p46</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">293T OAS1 KO cells were incubated with 25 µM geranylgeranylalcohol azide (GGAA) and transfected with 250 ng/mL pCDNA3.1 FLAG-tagged OAS1 expression constructs 3h after addition of GGAA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCDNA3.1 FLAG-tagged</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">Gibson assembly compatible sequences for the unique portions for p46, p46ATIL, and p48, were generated by PCR amplification of gBlocks.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>gBlocks</div><div>suggested: (Gblocks, RRID:SCR_015945)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometry was performed on a BD FACS Canto II. % VSV-GFP+ cells were quantified using FlowJo (Tree Star).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Quantification of co-localization was performed using the Fiji Coloc 2 plugin.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Fiji</div><div>suggested: (Fiji, RRID:SCR_002285)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Tests for association between cases and controls were performed by logistic regression using PLINK, with sex, age (as of April 1, 2020), deprivation score of residential postal code, and the first 10 principal components as covariates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PLINK</div><div>suggested: (PLINK, RRID:SCR_001757)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics: Statistical analyses (other than genetic analysis) were performed with Prism 8 and the specific statistical analyses performed are indicated in the figure legends.</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).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Institutional review board approval was not required because this study used only publicly available data.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To better understand demographic differences, we applied a previously validated deep learning system through the m3inference library36 to infer the account user as an individual or an organization and if labeled as an individual, their gender (female or male) and age group (≤18 years old, 19-29 years old, 30-39 years old, and ≥ 40 years old) based on multimodal input that includes username, display name, description, and profile picture image.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 manually reviewed a random subsample of 1,000 tweets and verified the tweets’ relevance to the topic of COVID-19 vaccination.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 Python, version 3.8.2 (Python Software foundation).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical Analysis: The data were structured in a time-series format with event counts and ‘person-months at risk’ aggregated (by year and month) with stratification by gender, age group, deprivation quintile and region (or nation in GOLD).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GOLD</div><div>suggested: (GOLD, RRID:SCR_000188)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All data processing and statistical analyses were conducted using Stata version 16 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We followed RECORD (REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data) guidance 10.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RECORD</div><div>suggested: (RECORD, RRID:SCR_009097)</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: First, we did not report data on retinopathy, smoking and foot checks (the remaining 3 of the 9 health checks recommended by NICE. Retinopathy screening is performed in the community and therefore these data are not available in primary care records. Whist assessments of smoking status and foot checks are performed in primary care, we were less confident in defining whether or not these checks had been performed based on the available data. Second, we do not present data on type 1 diabetes as the majority of care for these individuals is delivered in secondary care centres. Third, ethnicity coding is not adequately captured in primary care and therefore we had limited ability to explore ethnicity-related variation in outcomes. Fourth, we did not assess risk factor levels because our focus was on processes of care and prescribing. Fifth, our data would not capture assessments of weight and blood pressure assessed by patients in their homes. Results of home blood pressure recordings may have had an influence on prescribing between March and December 2020 because the reduction in prescribing of new antihypertensive agents (∼13%) was less than the reduction in BP monitoring performed in primary care (∼51%). Finally, although our results and conclusions are relevant to the UK population, generalisability to other healthcare systems may be limited. However, a pan-European survey of diabetes specialist nurses reported that the level of care provided f...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the local Institutional Review Board (protocol n 34/int/2020; NCT04318366) and all patients signed a written informed consent.<br>Consent: The study was approved by the local Institutional Review Board (protocol n 34/int/2020; NCT04318366) and all patients signed a 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">Data were verified by data managers and clinicians for accuracy and crosschecked in blind.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Specific antibodies to different SARS-CoV-2 antigens, interferon alpha-4 and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) were tested by a luciferase immunoprecipitation system (LIPS) assay, as previously described (11).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses were performed with the SPSS 24 (SPSS Inc. /IBM) and the R software version 3.4.0 (R Core Team (2020).</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 some limitations. First, the analysis was performed on a subcohort of 176 patients selected for having hyperglycemia (either new-onset or preexisting diabetes) out of 584 subjects of our original cohort (12). All patients with diabetes were included, and as for age, sex, new-onset diabetes prevalence, and the clinical outcome of our cohort appears superimposable to those reported by many authors. Despite this, we cannot exclude a selection bias. Second, our cohort is limited to hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Third, we only assessed fasting blood glucose and we acknowledge that more specific indicators of beta cell function, such as serum insulin and or C peptide levels, should have been measured. Fourth, the lack of HbA1c measurements in our cohort is a limitation. The evidence of normal HbA1c at the time of admission would indicate no history of recent hyperglycemia and confirm the diagnosis of new-onset diabetes. HbA1c levels were available for some patients with preexisting diabetes (51 (41-58) mmol/mol; 6.8%), but in very few patients with new-onset diabetes (38 (36-40) mmol/mol; 5.6%), and for this reason were not included in the analysis. In conclusion, new-onset diabetes/hyperglycemia is emerging as a complication of COVID-19 pneumonia and this clinical entity still needs to be adequately characterized in comparison with preexisting diabetes. It is clear from our study that patients with new-onset diabetes had increased levels of inflammat...
  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">NCT04318366</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 Patients Characterization, Biobank, Treatment Respo…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 Review Board (protocol number: 2020/195).<br>Consent: Since our study was retrospective, no informed consent was taken.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.22.21255637: (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: Signed informed consent was obtained from all participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Only one case (1/542=0.2%), a 31 year old male patient with a sore throat two days prior testing and a negative rt-PCR, showed an invalid AG-rt reading, which was not included in 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><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 distribution of the data was approximated by visual inspection of the histograms and the Kolmogorov Smirnov tests.</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 were analysed with SPSS software (IMP Statistics Version 25; SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) and MedCalc Statistical Software version 19.6.4</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">(MedCalc Software bv, Ostend, Belgium; https://www.medcalc.org; 2020).</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One of the limitations is the sole inclusion of symptomatic cases and not asymptomatic persons. Actually, the purpose of the device under investigation is indeed the testing of symptomatic persons with a suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection, which corresponds to the approval of the device. No severity of symptoms and progress was considered for our trial. Additionally, despite being considered as the gold standard, PCR testing is not 100% accurate and test quality crucially depends on the quality of manual sampling of specimen.[15]
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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
  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:
  Our study has a number of limitations. First, to ensure our model could run sufficiently quickly for the interactive app, stochasticity and individual variation in transmission was not incorporated. We expect only a minimal impact of these simplifications on disease trajectories and key results due to the large population size considered and rapid epidemic growth observed. However, they do limit the usefulness of the model for exploring elimination scenarios, since stochasticity and superspreading, inherent to SARS-CoV-2 transmission58, become more influential under low levels of infection59. Imported infections, which may similarly become important near elimination, were also not considered. Age-structured models have been proposed for studying COVID-1934,35,52. We did not include age-structured transmission, which though not entirely realistic, may be reasonable given the high degree of intergenerational mixing in Bangladesh16 and some other LMICs17. We also do not consider exacerbated mortality when hospital capacity is exceeded, potentially underestimating mortality under some scenarios. Parameters used for case fatality, and proportions of symptomatic and hospitalised infections, were based on age-dependent estimates from HICs11,34 and the age-distribution in Dhaka District. However, these HIC-derived parameters may be less accurate when applied in this setting, as the incidence among age classes of underlying conditions that increase COVID-19 risk likely differs in LMIC...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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  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:
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.14.21255385

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255385: (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">Analysing cases and deaths data for England for each of the age groups enables us to determine CFRs for each age group, without depending on the values inferred from the CDC study [3] in [2], which may no longer apply to the new variants and circumstances of the pandemic in England. 3.1 Distributions of time to death: To identify an appropriate distribution to improve the ‘shift’ assumption, we have reviewed six studies reporting time to death distributions [9-14].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>England.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Calculations were performed independently in R and in Excel, providing an element of code verification.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Excel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.21.21255873: (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 CURATOR is approved by HM institutional review board (PRO 00025445:1, dated: April 13, 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">Python packages lifeline version 0.25.10 were used for time-to-event analyses.</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 this study include its observational design, as there may have been some differences in testing behavior between those who were unvaccinated, partially vaccinated and fully vaccinated that are unaccounted for in this analysis. For example, there may have been differences in health-seeking behavior between these groups or different thresholds to test for SARS-CoV-2 amongst clinicians. However, it is unlikely there were large differences in hospitalization rates based on behavior alone. Across the pandemic timeline, the criteria for hospitalization have been consistently based on risk stratification by evaluation of the severity of symptoms, comorbidities, diagnostic findings and pulse oximetry. Second, as this is an observational study, there may be some residual unmeasured confounding, however, this is unlikely to alter the overall interpretation. It is also possible that certain individuals in the established cohort may have been tested and/or hospitalized elsewhere in the region. However, our healthcare system has a relatively high rate of patient retention. For example, in the overall tested cohort in CURATOR, > 95% have had at least one prior healthcare system encounter. Overall the vaccine effectiveness seen in this study was similar to the vaccine efficacy of clinical trials, which is reassuring. Finally, this study only examined two of the three vaccines currently approved for use in the US due to the timing of the study. It will be important going forwa...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.22.21255913

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.22.21255913: (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: Following verbal agreement to participate, a study worker visited each selected household to take written informed consent for individuals aged 2 years and over.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Private households are randomly selected on a continuous basis from address lists and previous surveys to provide a representative sample across the UK.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Blood samples were couriered directly to the University of Oxford, where they were tested for the SARS-CoV-2 antibody using an ELISA detecting anti-trimeric spike IgG19.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-trimeric spike IgG19</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, Waltham, MA, USA), with the same antigen and a colorimetric detection system (positivity threshold 42 ng/ml monoclonal antibody unit equivalents, determined from 3840 samples run in parallel).</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: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Strengths and weaknesses of the study: The main study strength is its design as a large-scale community survey recruiting from randomly selected private residential households, providing a representative sample of the UK general population. Participants are tested regardless of symptoms, allowing us to additionally consider vaccine effectiveness against infection without reported symptoms. The availability of Ct values allowed us to compare vaccine impact on viral loads, using Ct as a proxy30. Scheduled visits provide an unbiased sampling frame which we exploited for our logistic regression, rather than having to censor individuals at last tests in the study using time-to-event analyses, and assume all infections between visits were identified. Participants were asked about demographics, behaviours, and work, allowing us to control for a wide range of potential confounders that are unavailable in record linkage studies performed to date.15 The design also has limitations, particularly with individuals tested initially at weekly and then monthly visits. Any positive episodes occurring between visits will be missed, leading to contamination of the “not vaccinated, no previous PCR/antibody-positive” groups, possibly diluting the effect of vaccination. Because participants can only test positive at scheduled visits, some of the “new” positives episodes may in fact have occurred sometime previously; we therefore stratified time from vaccination to reduce the impact of this. Older ...
  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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.19.21255657

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255657: (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: According to above selection criteria, COVID-19 patients were broken down as shown in figure 1: Ethical statement: This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences (IR.BMSU.REC.1398435; IRCT registration number: IRCT20080901001165N58; Registration date: 2020-05-27) [17].<br>Consent: All ethical guidelines for studies on human subjects were carefully observed and informed consent was obtained from study participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study design: This single-centered retrospective observational controlled - yet not randomized - study enrolled 73 inpatients from Baqiyatallah Hospital in Tehran (Iran),4 March and 20 May 2020.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 STATA commands, “stand” specifies that the effects are expressed as standardized (or beta) coefficients that make comparisons easy by ignoring the independent variable’s scale of units, while “vce(oim)” is the default and specifies how the standard errors are calculated.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: All patients underwent measure of creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, white blood cells, lymphocytes, neutrophils, hemoglobin, and platelet the day of hospital admission and on day 3, day 6, and last day of hospitalization; whereas levels of c-reactive protein (CRP), lactate dehydrogenase, creatine phosphokinase, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate transaminase were assessed only the first and last day of hospital stay. By contrast, ferritin, d-dimers, serum il-6 level, SOFA score and APACHE II score were not available. The latter parameters, together with PiO2/FiO2, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, lymphocyte count, neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio, CRP and lactate dehydrogenase, have critical cutoffs for decision making onto whether initiating TPE in COVID-19 patients according to a group of physicians from different parts of the world with extensive expertise in clinical apheresis and critical care [20]. Therefore, the diagnosis of CRS could be uncertain. However, the lack of data cannot be a major limitation because, on one hand, assessing all parameters may not be necessary to start, stop or refrain from TPE and single or multiple combinations of these parameters can be used to assess eligibility for TPE and subsequent responses [20]; and, on the other hand, all 73 patients were affected by severe COVID-19 pneumonia with evidence of hypoxemia (respiratory rate > 30/minute or partial pressure of oxygen on arterial blood gas less...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.440593: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Measurement of antibodies: SARS-CoV-2 target antigens assays to measure IgG, IgA and IgM included the nucleocapsid (N) full-length (FL) and C-terminus (amino acid residues 340-416, CT), the spike (S) FL produced at CRG, S2 purchased from SinoBiological, and RBD donated by F. Krammer (Mount Sinai, NY).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 target antigens assays to measure 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">The ggplot2 and pheatmap packages were used to perform graphs.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pheatmap</div><div>suggested: (pheatmap, RRID:SCR_016418)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The main study limitation was the unavailability of pre-pandemic saliva samples that did not allow establishing the positivity threshold with saliva negative controls by the classical methods. Thus, we explored less standard FMM and EM algorithms to estimate the overall prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in the population studied. Models estimated positivity ranges that were much higher than seroprevalences estimated in contemporaneous surveys in the same geographical area (33–35). These algorithms may greatly overestimate the Ig positivity in saliva samples and/or saliva samples may be more sensitive to detect exposure to SARS-CoV-2, and/or classical methods to calculate positivity in serum/plasma may underestimate seroprevalence. More work is required to distinguish between these potential explanations, and to refine and validate these statistical approaches with datasets that have appropriate negative and positive controls. A related constraint was that we could not relate the antibody responses in saliva to current infection because there were very few RT-PCR positives, and that we could not compare saliva to serum responses due to the unavailability of blood samples. Therefore, our data could not be contrasted with the seroconversion or seroprevalence (36), considered the ‘gold standard’. In conclusion, antibody profiling in saliva samples with a multiplex technique represents a helpful and simpler tool in community-based surveys for determining saliva antibody conversion...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  No conflict of interest statement was detected. If there are no conflicts, we encourage authors to explicit state so.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines, after approval by the Hospital Moinhos de Vento Institutional Review Board (IRB number 30749720.4.1001.5330) submitted April 14th, 2020 and a decision made April 17th, 2020 (decision number 3.977.144).<br>Consent: All participants included in this study provided either a written informed consent, or a legal responsible provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  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 some limitations worth mentioning. We have included only symptomatic participants during the early stage of SARS-CoV-2 infection, so that we cannot draw conclusions about asymptomatic individuals or those later in the course of the disease. Another limitation was a restricted sample size of infected children. Social distancing, closed schools and daycare centers, together with the concern to take children to ERs have led to a sharp reduction in the overall number of pediatric consultations. Therefore, the real scenario of COVID-19 in the pediatric population is not yet known13,17,18. There was also a great variability observed in the days of SO to inclusion, which could introduce some bias introduced by different timing for PCR collection, as not all subjects were at the same stage of disease. Furthermore, the quality and volume of viral RNA on collected swabs could vary depending on how sample collection was conducted19. We have not corrected our sample for the amount of viral RNA, since it would only add another step to the diagnostic routine that was already overstretched at that point of the pandemic. But it is well known that Cycle threshold values can be affected by a batch effect20, since variations among different runs can occur. Despite these limitations our findings are strong enough to suggest that symptomatic children may play a significant role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission since they harbor viral loads that are not lower than adults. Our finding sugge...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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  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: Local ethical committees approved the participation of patients in the Managed Access Program and all patients signed informed consent for the treatment.<br>Consent: Local ethical committees approved the participation of patients in the Managed Access Program and all patients signed informed consent for the treatment.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Local ethical committees approved the participation of patients in the Managed Access Program and all patients signed informed consent for the treatment.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Managed Access Program</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">NCT04337359</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">No longer available</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ruxolitinib Managed Access Program (MAP) for Patients Diagno…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: Ethical approval was obtained from the ‘Comité de Bioéthique de Recherche en Santé’ (Bioethics Committee for Health Research) from the Togo Ministry of Health (No. 01/2021/CBRS).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right: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 population was 8.08 million in 2019, of which 50.2% were women [17].</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 management and statistical analysis: Data were imported into a Microsoft Excel database for data cleaning.</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:
  For example, in the COV002 trial, in the UK, SAEs were defined as substantial limitations in activity and medical intervention or the requirement of therapy [22]. We did not include, the use of medication in our definition, given that the study population was included HPs who have easy access to medication and a proven tendency to self-medicate [23,24]. Interpretations of the severity of adverse events must take into account the definition we adopted. In our study, SAEs were more common in younger people than in people aged 50 years and older. The younger the subject was, the more severe the adverse events tended to be. This trend has been reported by Oxford COVID Vaccine Trial Group and seems to be related to an exaggerated immune response in young subjects [22]. In other countries, severe events following the COVISHIELD™ vaccine have been observed more in subjects under 55 years of age, which has prompted France among other countries to exclusively recommend this vaccine for subjects aged 55 years and older. In Togo, such recommendation is difficult to apply given there is no other vaccine available to date. Adverse events after vaccination were more pronounced in women. This observation is not unusual for vaccines in general [25] and seems to be consistent with data in the literature about COVID-19 vaccines [26,27]. More SAEs in women have been reported in other settings and appear to be related to a stronger immune response triggered by estrogen [25]. Most reported advers...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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: All cells were maintained at 37°C with 5% CO2 Source of Primary Human T cells: Blood was obtained from Blood Centers of the Pacific (San Francisco, CA) as approved by the University Institutional Review Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">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">Antibodies: Surface expressed proteins were assayed for using Alexa Fluor 647 Anti-Myc tag antibody (Cell Signaling Technologies #2233S)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Myc tag</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 cells expressing ACE2 and TMPRSS2, a generous gift of Hannah S Sperber and Dr. Satish Pillai, were cultured in DMEM High Glucose (Gibco #10569-010) supplemented with 10% FBS, 1% of Antibiotic-Antimycotic,</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">Generation of Stable Cell Lines: Lenti-X 293T cells (Takara Bio #632180) were seeded at approximately 7e5 cells/well in a 6-well plate to yield ~80% confluency the following day.</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">Media was changed after 24 hours, and at 48 hours the viral supernatant was filtered through a 0.45μm PVDF filter and added to Jurkat or K562 cells seeded at approximately 1e5 cells/well in a 12-well plate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Jurkat</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>K562</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Prior to the flow cytometry, cells were seeded at densities described below in a 96 well plates, using flat-bottom plates (Falcon #353072) for experiments involving BHK-21 cells and U bottom plates for all other experiments (Falcon #877217) and incubated for 24-72 hours as specified by the experiment.</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><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 following day cells were transfected with 1.5μg of transfer vector containing the desired expression cassette, and the lentiviral packaging plasmids pMD2</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMD2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">G (170ng) and pCMV-dR8.91 (1.33μg) using 10μl of Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen #11668-027) according to manufacturer protocols.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCMV-dR8.91</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, 293T cells were transfected with plasmid DNA (340 ng of Spike vector, 1μg CMV-Gag-Pol (pCMV-dΔR8.91), 125 ng pAdvantage (Promega), 1 μg Luciferase reporter (per 6-well plate)) for 48 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCMV-dΔR8.91</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For positive control, Spike vector was replaced with pMD2.G and for negative control this vector was omitted.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMD2.G</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12259)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For LCB1 and LCB3, protein sequences were translated to human optimized coding sequences using Benchling.</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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All data were collected using FACSDiva (BD Biosciences) Flow Cytometry: Flow cytometry was performed using a LSR-Fortessa (BD Biosciences).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FACSDiva</div><div>suggested: (BD FACSDiva Software, RRID:SCR_001456)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The protein concentration was estimated based on the protein absorbance at 280nm with a spectrophotometer (Nanodrop One, Thermo), flash frozen, and stored in −80 °C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Xcalibur, RRID:SCR_014593)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All data analysis was conducted using custom Python scripts, available on github (https://github.com/weinberz/sarsnotch).</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">Analysis was conducted in Jupyter59 and relied on numpy60, matplotlib, seaborn, pandas, SciPy61, scikit-learn62 and fcsparser.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>matplotlib</div><div>suggested: (MatPlotLib, RRID:SCR_008624)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: Local ethical committee of the university approved this research.<br>Consent: The patients were informed about this research aims, and written consent was obtained before 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">Of these 3008 cases infected with COVID-19, 56% were men, and 44% were women with an age average of 59.3±18.7 years (1 100 years).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 analysed the features using Matlab 2018b 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></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:
  However, there are some weaknesses. The patients are from a specific region. It is mentioned [48] that factors associated with mortality may differ in various regions. In addition, detailed clinical data on cardiovascular parameters were not available. Future research is needed investigating mortality of COVID-19 in heart disease patients.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
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  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:
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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: Bioethics, sample collection and processing: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Moinhos de Vento Hospital under protocol number 32149620.9.0000.5330.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In each of the 132 strata (33 weeks and 4 regions), samples were selected randomly for sequencing, totaling 353 RNA samples (Supplementary Methods). 3.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 reads were mapped with BWA 0.7.17 software33 to the Wuhan-Hu-1 reference genome (NC_045512.2) and converted to BAM format using samtools v1.734.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BWA</div><div>suggested: (BWA, RRID:SCR_010910)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">1.2.3 package, and consensus sequences were generated considering a Phred quality score minimum of 20 and N for regions with coverage depths less than 10 bases.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><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">Sequences were filtered using Augur Filter subcommand with a minimal length of 27,000 nucleotides, and subsequently aligned with MAFFT, FFT-NS-2 option with default parameters.</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 phylogenetic tree was built using IQ-Tree using the GTR model and ultrafast bootstrapping with 1,000 replicates, and subsequently visualized in iTOL v635. 6.</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">Kernel density of the lineages during the epidemiological weeks was built using a script written in Python (Seaborn library).</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 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:
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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: Inactivation testing and titration of residual virus by TCID50 assay: Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 with water samples was carried out as described in the text.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Cells and viruses: African green monkey kidney (Vero) cells (Nuvonis Technologies) were maintained in OptiPRO SFM (Life Technologies) containing 2X GlutaMAX (Gibco).</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">Human epithelial colorectal adenocarcinoma (Caco-2) cells were maintained in DMEM, 20% FCS, 1% NEAA, 1% P/S.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco-2</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300137/p1665_CaCo-2, RRID:CVCL_0025)</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 this study is that we did not test survival of SARS-CoV-2 contained within mucus or saliva mixed with swimming pool water. Further we were only able to test reduction of a virus stock with infectivity around 104 TCID50/ml due to the limited replication of SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory and the need use a minimal volume of virus material during testing. Nonetheless, the viral challenge we presented equates to approximately 108 genomes, (with a Ct value of 23) which is in excess of the amount of virus typically detected in the upper respiratory tract of asymptomatic people, with an average Ct of 31.15 (Ra et al., 2021). The route by which any residual virus in swimming pool water might infect another swimmer is not clear. SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted in the air and also by direct inoculation. There is also a potential faecal-oral route of transmission for SARS-CoV-2 (Guo et al., 2021). Our findings on the susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 to inactivation by swimming pool water underscore the importance for those who maintain swimming pools to adhere to UK guidelines for chlorination, and this should give confidence in the safety of bathers when in the water. Finally, we stress that swimmers should continue to adhere to locally recommended social distancing rules both in and out of the water.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: This study was conducted in Mayo Clinic’s AAALAC (Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care)- accredited facilities and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (<br>Euthanasia Agents: Mice were euthanized via CO2 gas, then sterilized with 70% ethanol.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Antibody ELISAs: Binding IgG and IgA antibody responses in mouse serum, hamster serum, and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid were measured by ELISA against spike S1 protein and SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain variants.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For hamster samples, the secondary antibodies used were: Peroxidase Conjugated Affinity Purified Anti-Golden Syrian Hamster IgG (H&L) Goat (Rockland Inc.), and Rabbit Anti-Hamster IgA (Brookwood Biomedical).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Golden Syrian Hamster IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Hamster IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For mouse samples, the secondary antibodies used were: GOXMO HRP HIGH XADS (Invitrogen), and HRP-Goat Anti-Mouse IgA (Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Mouse IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 24 h, cells were transferred to nitrocellulose plates, coated with anti-IFN-γ antibody, and incubated for 24 more hours.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IFN-γ</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">Western Blotting: Human A549 lung cells were infected with RD- or SC-Ad spike at the indicated multiplicities of infection (MOI) and harvested 24 hours later.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><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: BALB/c mice were purchased from Charles River Laboratories.</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">This full-length sequence was inserted into the shuttle plasmid pAd6-NdePfl-CMV-MCS-3X-LZL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pAd6-NdePfl-CMV-MCS-3X-LZL</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This sequence was recombined into pAd6-ΔE1-ΔE3 and pAd6-ΔIIIa-ΔE3 by red recombination as in (20–22) to generate RD-Ad6-spike and SC-Ad-Spike, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pAd6-ΔE1-ΔE3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pAd6-ΔIIIa-ΔE3</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">Single-cycle Adenovirus Expressing Wild-type SARS-CoV-2 spike: A codon-optimized cDNA encoding the original wild-type spike protein from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate 2019-nCoV_HKU-SZ-002a_2020, accession number MN938384.1 was synthesized by Genewiz.</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">Statistical Analysis: Prism 9 Graphical software was used for all statistical analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statistical Analysis: Prism</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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1. sciscore 24 Apr 2021
  
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.439992: (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">Finally, virus titration was performed on Vero CCL81 cells using standard limiting dilution to determine the 50% tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50) of viral stock47,48. 2.5.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero CCL81</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Photomicrographs were taken using the Olympus ix51 inverted microscope and analyzed using the QCapture Pro 6.0 software under 200× magnification (QImaging)49, in order to examine whether celastrol interfered with SARS-CoV-2 cytopathic effects in Vero CCL-81 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero CCL-81</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell viability: Cytotoxicity of celastrol (Sigma-Aldrich) to Vero CCL-81, Vero CCL-81-ACE2, Calu-3, and Caco-2 was determined using the Alamar Blue Cell Viability protocol (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, USA), according to the manufacturer's instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco-2</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300137/p1665_CaCo-2, RRID:CVCL_0025)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Interleukin 6 quantification: IL-6 levels were quantified in Caco-2 and Calu-3 cell culture supernatants using the Human DuoSet ELISA assay kit (R&D Systems, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3</div><div>suggested: KCLB Cat# 30055, RRID:CVCL_0609)</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 signature was submitted to over-representation analysis using Reactome pathways34 and clusterProfiler R package35 to find biological pathways that were enriched due to viral infection, within BH adjusted p-value < 0.05.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Reactome</div><div>suggested: (Reactome, RRID:SCR_003485)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>clusterProfiler</div><div>suggested: (clusterProfiler, RRID:SCR_016884)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The graphical representation of drug signatures data and scores were generated with pheatmap36 and ggplot2 packages37 in R software38.</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">Docking analysis was carried out using Autodock Vina43 with exhaustiveness parameter equal to 20.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Autodock</div><div>suggested: (AutoDock, RRID:SCR_012746)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Graphical representations of energy results were plotted with ggplot2 R package and molecular model structures were drawn with Pymol44 and Discovery Studio Visualizer® (version-2020)45. 2.3.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pymol44</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All the experimental data are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM), and they were plotted and analyzed using GraphPad Prism 7 software52.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Despite its potential therapeutic effects, there are still some limitations to the use of celastrol, such as its low solubility that results in poor bioavailability, in vitro and in vivo toxicity, and adverse effects that remain to be evaluated107,108. Celastrol was not cytotoxic to all cell lines tested herein, even at the highest concentration (1000 nM), corroborating other reports using Caco-2 cells109. At 1000 nM, this compound reduced the SARS-CoV-2-cytopathic effect on Vero CCL-81 cells. A recent study using a mouse model of acute toxicity has demonstrated that celastrol is safe even when orally administered at a high dose (62.5 mg/kg body weight)110. Intraperitoneal administration of celastrol (0.25 mg/kg body weight) increases the gamma irradiated-mice survival rate by around 7078. To surpass celastrol toxicity, solubility, and pharmacokinetic issues, several pharmaceutical approaches have been proposed, such as nanoencapsulation, liposomes, and sugar-silica nanoparticles111–113. Celastrol has been considered a lead drug for several human illnesses, but its toxicity to humans remains to be determined64,73,114. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the pioneer to use the combination between bioinformatic tools and biological approaches to demonstrate that celastrol inhibits the SARS-CoV-2 replication in non-human and human cell lines, and down-regulates IL-6 secretion from infected-human cell lines, reinforcing that celastrol is a potential repurposed drug...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: The original studies to obtain blood samples after written informed consent were previously described and had been approved by the Ethics Board of ChongQing Medical University24.<br>IRB: The original studies to obtain blood samples after written informed consent were previously described and had been approved by the Ethics Board of ChongQing Medical University24.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right: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 hACE2 mice were treated with 58G6 or 510A5 monoclonal antibody at a concentration of 10 mg/kg by intraperitoneal route, respectively.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sequence analysis of antigen-specific mAbs: IMGT/V-QUEST (http://www.imgt.org/IMGT_vquest/vquest) and IgBLAST (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/igblast/), MIXCR (https://mixcr.readthedocs.io/en/master/) and VDJtools (https://vdjtools-doc.readthedocs.io/en/master/overlap.html) tools were used to do the variable region analysis and annotation for each antibody clone.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antigen-specific mAbs: IMGT/V-QUEST ( http://www.imgt.org/IMGT_vquest/vquest )</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A CM5 chip (GE Healthcare) was linked with anti-human IgG-Fc antibody to capture about 9000 response units of the neutralizing Abs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG-Fc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The next days, the membranes were washed with TBST and incubated with HRP-conjugated Goat-anti-human Fc antibody (Abcam, ab99759, 1:10000) for 1 h at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ab99759</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab99759, RRID:AB_10673762)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The ELISA plates were washed 4 times by blocking buffer and 50 μL Goat F(ab’)2 Anti-Human IgG (Fab’)2 secondary antibody conjugated with ALP (Abcam, ab98532, 1:2000) was incubated with the plate at RT for 30 mins.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After the incubation, the mixtures were then transferred into 96-well plates, which were seeded with 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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293T cells were grown to 80% confluency before transfection with VSV-G pseudotyped ΔG-luciferase, pWPXL and pSPAX2.</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">After 72 hrs, the luciferase activities of infected HEK293T/ACE2 cells were detected by the Bright-Luciferase Reporter Assay System (Promega, E2650)</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">Expi293 cells (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) cultured in Freestyle 293 Expression Medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) were maintained at 37 °C.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentic SARS-CoV-2 and B.1.351 viruses and animal study: Authentic SARS-CoV-2 (WIV04) and B.1.351 (NPRC 2.062100001) viruses were propagated on the Vero-E6 cells and titrated by single layer plaque assay with standard procedure.</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">Production of pseudovirus bearing S protein: pVSVG expressing SARS-CoV-2 S protein was constructed as previously described29.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pVSVG</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_85140)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293T cells were grown to 80% confluency before transfection with VSV-G pseudotyped ΔG-luciferase, pWPXL and pSPAX2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pSPAX2</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12260)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Protein expression and purification: To express the prefusion S ectodomain, the gene encoding residues 1-1208 of SARS-CoV-2 S (GenBank: MN908947.3) with a C-terminal T4 fibritin trimerization motif, an HRV-3C protease cleavage site, a Twin-Strep-tag and an 8 × His-tag was synthesized, and cloned into the mammalian expression vector pcDNA3.1, which was a kind gift from L.</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><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 IC50 and IC80 of the evaluated mAbs was and calculated by a four-parameter logistic regression using GraphPad Prism 8.0.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sequence analysis of antigen-specific mAbs: IMGT/V-QUEST (http://www.imgt.org/IMGT_vquest/vquest) and IgBLAST (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/igblast/), MIXCR (https://mixcr.readthedocs.io/en/master/) and VDJtools (https://vdjtools-doc.readthedocs.io/en/master/overlap.html) tools were used to do the variable region analysis and annotation for each antibody clone.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgBLAST</div><div>suggested: (IgBLAST, RRID:SCR_002873)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2605 micrographs were collected in a single session with a defocus range comprised between 1.0 and 2.8 μm using SerialEM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SerialEM</div><div>suggested: (SerialEM, RRID:SCR_017293)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cryo-EM data processing: All dose-fractioned images were motion-corrected and dose-weighted by MotionCorr2 software32 and their contrast transfer functions were estimated by cryoSPARC patch CTF estimation33.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MotionCorr2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The following 2D, 3D classifications, and refinements were all performed in cryoSPARC.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>cryoSPARC</div><div>suggested: (cryoSPARC, RRID:SCR_016501)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Both of the 58G6 and 13G9 Fab models were first predicted using Phyre226 and then manually built in Coot 0.936 with the guidance of the cryo-EM electron density maps, and overall real-space refinements were performed using Phenix 1.1837.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Coot</div><div>suggested: (Coot, RRID:SCR_014222)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Phenix</div><div>suggested: (Phenix, RRID:SCR_014224)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><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 were originally obtained from ATCC and routinely tested negative for mycoplasma contamination (PCR Mycoplasma Detection Set, Takara)</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">Fixed cells were incubated with anti-T7e epitope mouse monoclonal antibodies (Novagen, 69522-4) and anti-HA rabbit polyclonal antibodies (Sigma Aldrich, H6908).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The secondary antibodies Alexa 488 donkey anti-mouse IgG (Molecular Probes, A-21202) and Alexa 568 donkey anti-rabbit IgG (Molecular Probes, A-10042) were used for double staining.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: (Molecular Probes Cat# A-21202, RRID:AB_141607)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To detect intracellular RABV-P protein, cells were permeabilized with 0.2% Triton X-100 in PBS for 5 min at room temperature and incubated with anti-RABV-P rabbit polyclonal antibody (Tobiume et al., 2009).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RABV-P</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The secondary antibodies Alexa 488 donkey anti-mouse IgG and Alexa 568 donkey anti-rabbit IgG were used for staining.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To evaluate ubiquitination states, proteins immunoprecipitated with anti-ubiquitin mouse antibodies were subjected to Western blotting with anti-T7e rabbit antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-ubiquitin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Total cell lysate was also subjected to immunoblotting with anti-T7e rabbit antibodies and anti-HA rabbit polyclonal antibodies (Sigma Aldrich, H6908) to evaluate the expression levels of Env-T7es and HA-MARCH8.</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# H6908, RRID:AB_260070)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HA-MARCH8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell maintenance: 293T, HeLa, NIH3T3, HOS, and M8166+MARCH8 (Tada et al., 2015) cells were maintained under standard conditions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To determine viral infectivity, 1 × 104 NIH3T3 cells or HeLa cells were incubated with 1 ng of p24 antigen of either arenavirus virus envelope (LCMV-GP)- or alphavirus E3-E2-6K-E1 envelope (derived from CHIKV or RRV)-pseudotyped HIV-1 luciferase reporter viruses, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NIH3T3</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">DNA constructs: The envelope glycoprotein (Env)-deficient HiBiT-tagged HIV-1 proviral indicator construct pNL-Luc2-IN/HiBiT-E(-)Fin, the HIV-1 Gag-Pol expression plasmid pC-GagPol-RRE, the VSV-G expression plasmid pC-VSVg, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spike (S) protein expression plasmid pC-SARS-S, the SARS-CoV-2-S protein expression plasmid pC-SARS2-S, the HIV-1 Rev expression plasmid pCa-Rev, the MARCH8 expression plasmid pC-MARCH8, pC-HA-MARCH8, and the tyrosine motif-mutant pC-MARCH8-AxxL, the ACE2 expression plasmid pC-ACE2 and the TMPRSS2 expression plasmid pC-TMPRSS2, have previously been described elsewhere (Iwabu et al., 2009; Ozono et al., 2021; Ozono et al., 2020; Tada et al., 2015).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-GagPol-RRE</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VSV-G</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_138479)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCa-Rev</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-MARCH8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-MARCH8-AxxL</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The plasmid pC-LCMVgp expressing the viral envelope derived from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) glycoprotein (gp) was created by inserting PCR-amplified and BsiWI/XhoI-digested LCMV-GP fragments (PCR-amplified from pCI-LCMV-GP (Reignier et al., 2006)) into the Acc65I/XhoI-digested pCAGGS mammalian expression plasmid.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCI-LCMV-GP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">The plasmid pC-CHIKVe expressing alphavirus E3-E2-6K-E1 polyprotein derived from Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was created by inserting the PCR-amplified and Acc65I/XhoI-digested E3-E2-6K-E1 fragments (PCR-amplified from codon-optimized CHIKV’s C-E3-E2-6K-E1 plasmid (Kishishita et al., 2013)) into the corresponding site of pCAGGS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C-E3-E2-6K-E1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Another E3-E2-6K-E1 expression plasmid, pC-RRVe, derived from the Ross River virus (RRV) T48 strain, was created by inserting the PCR-amplified and EcoRV/NotI-digested E3-E2-6K-E1 fragments (PCR-amplified from pRRV-E2E1 (Sharkey et al., 2001)) into the corresponding site of pCAGGS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pRRV-E2E1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The RABV-G or LCMV-GP mutant (pC-RABVg-CT3K/R, or pC-LCMVgp-CT6K/R), in which cytoplasmic lysine residues at positions 489/508/517 or 465/471/478/487/492/496 were mutated to arginine residues, was created by inserting overlapping PCR fragments into correspondingly digested pC-RABVg or pC-LCMVgp, respectively</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RABVg-CT3K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-LCMVgp-CT6K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mutants of SARS-CoV-S and SARS-CoV-2-S (pC-SARS-S-CT4K/R, or pC-SARS2-S-CT4K/R), in which cytoplasmic lysine residues at positions 1227/1237/1248/1251 and 1245/1255/1266/1269 were mutated to arginine residues, were created by inserting overlapping PCR fragments into correspondingly digested pC-SARS-S and pC-SARS2-S, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS-S-CT4K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS2-S-CT4K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The CHIKV and RRV 6K mutants (pC-CHIKV-6K-2K/R and pC-RRV-6K-2K/R), in which the 6K region’s cytoplasmic lysine residues at positions 37/44 were mutated to arginine residues, were created by inserting overlapping PCR fragments into correspondingly digested pC-CHIKVe and pC-RRVe, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKV-6K-2K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRV-6K-2K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Similarly, the E2 mutants of CHIKV and RRV (pC-CHIKVe-E2-K/R or pC-RRVe-E2-K/R), in which E2’s C-terminal lysine residues at positions 422 and 394 were mutated to arginine residues, were created by inserting overlapping PCR fragments into correspondingly digested pCAGGS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe-E2-K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe-E2-K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The C-terminally T7-epitope–tagged wild-type and its mutant expression plasmids of RABV-G (pC-RABVg-T7e and pC-RABVg-CT3K/R-T7e), LCMV-GP (pC-LCMVgp-T7e and pC-LCMVgp-CT6K/R-T7e), SARS-CoV-S (pC-SARS-S-T7e and pC-SARS-S-CT4K/R-T7e), SARS-CoV-2-S (pC-SARS2-S-T7e and pC-SARS2-S-CT4K/R-T7e), CHIKVe3-E2-6K-E1 (pC-CHIKVe-T7e, pC-CHIKVe-6K-2K/R-T7e, and pC-CHIKVe-E2-K/R-T7e), and RRVe3-E2-6K-E1 (pC-RRVe-T7e, pC-RRVe-6K-2K/R-T7e, and pC-RRVe-E2-K/R-T7e) were created by replacing the VSV-G gene of pC-VSVg-T7e (Zhang et al., 2020) with the corresponding PCR-amplified fragments.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RABVg-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-LCMVgp-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-LCMVgp-CT6K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS-S-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS-S-CT4K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS2-S-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS2-S-CT4K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe-6K-2K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe-E2-K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe-6K-2K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe-E2-K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-VSVg-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To detect ubiquitinated CHIKV-E2 proteins by immunoprecipitation assays, WT or E2-K/R mutant plasmids expressing CHIKV E3-E2-6K-E1, in which the T7 epitope-tag is inserted immediately downstream of a furin-cleavage site between E3 and E2, were created by inserting overlapping PCR fragments that harbor a T7e sequence into correspondingly digested pCAGGS and were designated pC-CHIKVe-T7eE2, pC-CHIKVe-T7eE2-K/R, pC-RRVe-T7eE2, and pC-RRVe-T7eE2-K/R, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe-T7eE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RRVe-T7eE2-K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virion infectivity assays: To prepare various viral envelope-pseudotyped HIV-1 luciferase reporter viruses, 1.1 × 105 293T cells were cotransfected with increasing amounts of the MARCH8 expression plasmid, 20 ng of viral envelope expression plasmid (pC-VSVg, pC-RABVg, pC-LCMVgp, pC-SARS-S, pC-SARS2-S, pC-CHIKVe, pC-RRVe, and their mutants), 500 ng of pNL-Luc2-IN/HiBiT-E(-)Fin, and an empty vector up to 1 μg of total DNA using FuGENE 6 (Promega).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-VSVg</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RABVg</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-LCMVgp</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-SARS2-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pNL-Luc2-IN/HiBiT-E(-)Fin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Alternatively, 2.2 × 104 293T cells transiently coexpressing ACE2 and TMPRSS2 (using pC-ACE2 and pC-TMPRSS2) were incubated with 1 ng of p24 antigen of either SARS-CoV-S- or SARS-CoV-2-S-pseudotyped luciferase reporter lentiviruses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Immunofluorescence microscopy: HOS cells were plated on 13-mm coverslips, cotransfected with 0.5 μg of pC-xx-T7e (xx: RABV-G, RABV-G-CT3K/R, LCMVgp, LCMVgp-CT6K/R, SARS-S, SARS-S-CT4K/R, SARS2-S, SARS2-S-CT4K/R, CHIKVe, CHIKVe-6K-2K/R, CHIKVe-E2-K/R, RRVe, RRVe-6K-2K/R, or RRVe-E2-K/R), 0.1 μg of pC-GagPol-RRE, 0.05 μg of pCa-Rev, and 0.3 μg of either the HA-MARCH8 expression plasmid or an empty control using FuGENE6, and cultured for 24 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-xx-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HA-MARCH8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ubiquitination assays: 293T cells (5 × 105) were cotransfected with 0.8 μg of pC-RABVg-T7e, pC-RABVg-CT3K/R-T7e, pC-CHIKVe-T7eE2, or pC-CHIKVe-T7eE2-K/R; and 0.2 μg of pC-HA-MARCH8 or an empty control.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-RABVg-CT3K/R-T7e</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe-T7eE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-CHIKVe-T7eE2-K/R</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pC-HA-MARCH8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses: Column graphs that combine bars and individual data points were created with GraphPad Prism version 9.10.</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>
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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">Anti-acetyl lysine antibody was purchased from ImmuneChem.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-acetyl</div><div>suggested: (ImmuneChem Cat# ICP0380, RRID:AB_2801477)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-SUPT16H, anti-SSRP1, anti-TIP60, anti-IFI16, anti-MX1, anti-ISG15, anti-GAPDH and normal mouse IgG antibodies were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SUPT16H,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SUPT16H</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SSRP1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-TIP60</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IFI16</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-MX1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-ISG15</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>mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-BRD4 antibody was purchased from Bethyl Laboratories.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-BRD4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-FLAG, anti-V5, and normal rabbit IgG antibodies were purchased from Invitrogen.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-FLAG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-V5</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-K48Ub, anti-histone H3, anti-mouse HRP-linked and anti-rabbit HRP-linked antibodies were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-K48Ub, anti-histone</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-K48Ub, anti-histone H3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-histone</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit HRP-linked antibodies were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-HDAC1 antibody was purchased from Novus Biologicals.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-HDAC1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-H3K9me3, anti-H3K27me3, anti-H3ac (pan-acetyl), and anti-EZH2 antibodies were purchased from Active Motif.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-H3K9me3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-H3K27me3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-H3ac</div><div>suggested: (Millipore Cat# 06-599, RRID:AB_2115283)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-EZH2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PE/Cyanine7 anti-human CD107a (LAMP-1), PE anti-human IFNγ and anti-IL-6 antibodies were purchased from BioLegend.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PE/Cyanine7 anti-human CD107a</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 328618, RRID:AB_11147955)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human CD107a</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IFNγ</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IL-6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-flavivirus group antigen antibody that probes ZIKV E protein and anti-SARS-CoV-1/2 NP 1C7C7 antibody was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-flavivirus group antigen</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-1/2 NP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP) antibody was obtained from BEI Resources.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-IL-4, anti-IL-8, and FITC Mouse anti-rat IgG1 antibodies was purchased from BD Biosciences.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-IL-4,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-IL-4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IL-8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rat IgG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To determine acetylation, ubiquitination, and other protein binders of the targeted proteins, cell lysates were incubated with the specific antibodies recognizing the targeted proteins or control IgG, followed by the incubation with protein A/G magnetic beads.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>control 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">Cells and plasmids: HEK293T, HeLa, Vero E6, and TZM-bl cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (Sigma-Aldrich).</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>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">Jurkat cells were maintained in RPMI 1640 medium (Gibco).</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HeLa or A549 cells were seeded at the density of 8,000 cells/well on 96-well culture plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, K562 target cells were pre-stained with the CellTrace™ CFSE Cell Proliferation Kit (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s protocols.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>K562</div><div>suggested: NCI-DTP Cat# K-562, RRID:CVCL_0004)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">1 × 106 NK-92 cells were co-cultured with the same number of K562 cells (1 : 1 of effector : target [E : T] ratio) for 4 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NK-92</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, Vero E6 cells were seeded on 96-well plates with 1 × 104 cells/well at 24 h prior to viral 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><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">Four domains of SUPT16H, NTD, DD, MD and CTD, were cloned in pQCXIP (Clontech) with a N-terminal FLAG tag.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pQCXIP</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_15714)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Site-specific mutation of K674R was introduced in pQCXIP-FLAG-MD by using the QuikChange Lightning Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Agilent Technologies) following the manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pQCXIP-FLAG-MD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">TIP60 shRNA (5’-TCG AAT TGT TTG GGC ACT GAT-3’) and firefly luciferase (FLuc) shRNA (5’-CAC AAA CGC TCT CAT CGA CAA G-3’) were cloned in a pAPM lentiviral vector as previously described (Huang et al., 2019).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pAPM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">cis-reporting vectors of IFN activity, pISRE-Luc and pGAS-Luc, were purchased (Agilent Technologies).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pISRE-Luc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HDAC1 was cloned in pcDNA-DEST40 with a C-terminal V5 tag.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA-DEST40</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">pLX317-EZH2-V5 expression vector was acquired from Sigma-Aldrich.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLX317-EZH2-V5</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">At 72 h post-transfection, cells were further transfected with pISRE-Luc or pGAS-Luc vector along with pRL-TK by using the TurboFect™ Transfection Reagent (Thermo Scientific) for 24 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pGAS-Luc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pRL-TK</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_11313)</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 intensity of protein bands was quantified by 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">Percentages of virus-infected cells was quantified by using the Gen5 Image+ software (BioTek).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gen5 Image+</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential expression of genes was analyzed by DESeq2 (Love et al., 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">R packages, pheatmap and clusterProfiler, were used for heatmap construction and pathway analysis, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>clusterProfiler</div><div>suggested: (clusterProfiler, RRID:SCR_016884)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MFI was calculated by using the FlowJo V10 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Results were presented as either means ± standard deviation (SD) or means ± standard error of the mean (SEM), and graphed by using the GraphPad Prism 9.0 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.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.21.440680

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.21.440680: (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: Fresh human fungiform papillae (FP), ≤ eight per participant, were obtained with IRB approval (IRB/NIH # 2018-AG-N010, -N322) and with participants’ 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>
  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">Controls used were incubation without primary antibody, isotype controls, and pre-absorption with a 5-fold excess of the blocking peptide (ACE2).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All figures were compiled in Adobe Illustrator 2021 (San Jose, CA) RNAscope in situ hybridization (ISH): RNAscope probes were all from Advanced Cell Diagnostics (Newark, CA; Table 2).</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">Images were acquired using Zen software on a Zeiss LSM 880 confocal microscope.</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">One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Tukey’s multiple comparison was performed using GraphPad Prism 9 (GraphPad Software Inc.</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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 22. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.440676

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.440676: (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: All animal studies were approved by the University of Iowa Animal Care and Use Committee and meet stipulations of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.<br>Euthanasia Agents: Histology and Immunohistochemistry: Mice were anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of ketamine-xylazine and perfused transcardially with PBS.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Treatment with asapiprant: For asapiprant treatment, 7-8 month old, male and female C57BL/6 mice were infected with SARS2-N501YMA30 (5000 PFU).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Serial in vivo passaging of virus in mice: Serial blind passage of rSARS2-N501YP0 through mouse lungs was performed in 8-to-10-week-old BALB/c mice.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection, slides were incubated with blocking reagent (10% normal goat serum x 30 minutes) followed by rabbit monoclonal antibody against SARS-CoV-2 N protein (1:20,000 dilution x 60 minutes, #40143-R019, Sino Biological US Inc., Wayne, PA, USA), then incubated with Rabbit Envision (Dako) and diaminobenzidine (Dako) as chromogen.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 N protein</div><div>suggested: (ABclonal Cat# A20021, RRID:AB_2862924)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were then washed and blocked with 1 μg α-CD16/α-CD32 (2.4G2) antibody at 4 °C for 20 minutes and surface stained with the following antibodies at 4°C for 30 minutes: V450 α-mouse CD45 (clone 30-F11; Cat. No.: 560501) APC α-mouse CD220 (clone RA3-6B2, Cat. No.: 553092); APC/Cyanine 7 α-mouse CD3e (clone 145-2C11, Cat. No.: 100330); APC/Cyanine 7 α-mouse CD11c (clone HL3; Cat. No.: 561241); FITC α-mouse Ly6G (clone 1A8; Cat. No.: 127606); PE α-mouse CD11b (clone M1/70; Cat. No.: 101208); PE/Cyanine 7 α-mouse CD8 (clone 53-6.7; Cat. No.: 100722); PerCP/Cyanine 5.5 α-mouse CD4 (clone RM4.5; Cat. No.: 550954); FITC α-mouse Ly6G (1A8; Cat. No.: 127606); PerCP/Cyanine 5.5 α-mouse Ly6C (clone HK1.4; Cat. No.: 128012); CD 64 (clone X54-5/7.1; Cat. No.: 139304) Cells were washed, fixed and permeabilized with Cytofix/Cytoperm (BD Biosciences).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>α-CD16/α-CD32</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD45</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 560501, RRID:AB_1645275)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD220</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-126-536, RRID:AB_2889509)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3e</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# 88-7774-75, RRID:AB_476399)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD11c</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 561241, RRID:AB_10611727)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ly6G</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 127606, RRID:AB_1236494)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD11b</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 101208, RRID:AB_312791)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD4</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 550954, RRID:AB_393977)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ly6C</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were then labeled for cell-surface markers, fixed/permeabilized with Cytofix/Cytoperm Solution (BD Biosciences), and labeled with α-IFN-γ and α-TNF antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>α-TNF</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 μg of N501Y-SARS-CoV-2 BAC were transfected into Vero E6 (ATCC) with Lipofectamine 3000 (Invitrogen) in a 6-well plate according to manufacturer’s protocol.</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">Cultures were harvested when CPE was >50% by freezing at -80°C. rSARS2-N501YP0 was further passaged in Calu-3 cells in DMEM supplemented with 20% FBS.</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">SARS2-N501YMA30 was further propagated in Calu-3 2B4 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3 2B4</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_YZ47)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice, cells and virus: 6-to-10-week- or 6-month-old BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice were obtained from Charles River Laboratories.</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">In brief, forward and reverse primers with overlapping SARS-CoV-2 spike sequence with the N501Y mutation followed by sequence complementary to the target plasmid (pEP-KanS) were synthesized (Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pEP-KanS</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">Cells were then labeled for cell-surface markers, fixed/permeabilized with Cytofix/Cytoperm Solution (BD Biosciences), and labeled with α-IFN-γ and α-TNF antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Biosciences</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences, RRID:SCR_013311)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All flow cytometry data were acquired using a BD FACSVerse and analyzed with FlowJo software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In silico structural modelling and analysis: A homology model for mouse ACE2 (NP_001123985.1) was generated using YASARA and docked into the crystal structure of complexed human ACE2 and spike RBD (PDB: 6M0J).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>YASARA</div><div>suggested: (YASARA, RRID:SCR_017591)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Figures were generated in 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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Differences in mean values between groups were analysed by ANOVA and Student’s t-tests and differences in survival were analysed by log-rank (Mantel–Cox) tests 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></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">NCT04705597</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 to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of …</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255743

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.21255743: (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.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.440654

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.440654: (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: All work was carried out in the state-of-art biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratories at Texas Biomedical Research Institute with the approval of the Institutional Biohazard Committee.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were then blocked with 2.5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) in PBS for 1 hour at 37°C, followed by incubation with 1 µg/ml of a SARS-CoV nucleocapsid protein (NP) monoclonal antibody (mAb) 1C7C7 (Millipore-Sigma, St. Louis, MO) shown to cross-react with SARS-CoV-2 NP, diluted in 1% BSA for 1 hour at 37°C.24 After incubation with the primary mAb, cells were washed three times with PBS, and developed with the Vectastain ABC kit and DAB Peroxidase Substrate kit (Vector Laboratory, Inc., Burlingame CA) according to the manufacturers’ instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV nucleocapsid protein (NP</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">Vero E6 cells were used to generate SARS-CoV-2 stocks and for virus titration assays.</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">Cells were then blocked with 2.5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) in PBS for 1 hour at 37°C, followed by incubation with 1 µg/ml of a SARS-CoV nucleocapsid protein (NP) monoclonal antibody (mAb) 1C7C7 (Millipore-Sigma, St. Louis, MO) shown to cross-react with SARS-CoV-2 NP, diluted in 1% BSA for 1 hour at 37°C.24 After incubation with the primary mAb, cells were washed three times with PBS, and developed with the Vectastain ABC kit and DAB Peroxidase Substrate kit (Vector Laboratory, Inc., Burlingame CA) according to the manufacturers’ instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Millipore-Sigma</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vector Laboratory</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">24 Viral titers were calculated as PFU/mL. Statistics: Data obtained was plotted using the GraphPad Prism v.</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.
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  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <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 MATLAB implementation of this package, developed by Batista (2021), is used for the current study.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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:
  This study has some limitations. First, due to prioritizing a specific population for vaccination, the results might be influenced and prioritized for the elderly, occupational exposures, and people who have higher risks. Second, these associations are based on the overall information of each state, while individual-level data for each state could determine vulnerability in more detail.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><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">Cell culture and infection: Calu-3 cells (ATCC HTB-55) were cultivated in EMEM containing 10 % FCS, 2 mM L-Gln and non-essential amino acids.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# HTB-55, RRID:CVCL_0609)</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">Gene ontology enrichment of differentially expressed proteins was analysed using the ClueGO app (Version 2.5.7) implemented in Cytoscape (Version 3.8.2) with a Bonferroni-adjusted p-value threshold of 0.05 (12, 17, 18).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ClueGO</div><div>suggested: (ClueGO, RRID:SCR_005748)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytoscape</div><div>suggested: (Cytoscape, RRID:SCR_003032)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This meta-analysis demonstrates that proteome coverage is still a limitation which impedes intra-study cross-comparisons due to missing values. Recently, it was proposed that SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 interferes less efficiently with human interferon induction and interferon signalling than SARS-CoV ORF6, which could explain the virus-specific induction of ISG expression and the varying interferon sensitivity (34). The proteome data from this study point towards an additional mechanism. The expression of viral proteins was highly similar between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 except for the M protein whose expression is enhanced in SARS-CoV. This protein is a component of the viral envelope but its functions beyond are not well characterized. It is known that the homologous M proteins of MERS and SARS-CoV inhibit type I interferon expression (35, 36). Recently, it was discovered that overexpression of the M protein from SARS-CoV-2 in human cells inhibits the production of type I and III IFNs induced by dsRNA-sensing via direct interaction with RIG-I (DDX58) and reduces the induction of ISGs after Sendai virus (SEV) infection and poly (I:C) transfection (33, 37). Additionally, it was shown that the M protein of SARS-CoV inhibits the formation of TRAF3·TANK·TBK1/IKKϵ complex, resulting in the inhibition of IFN transcription (35). We therefore hypothesize that the enhanced expression of the M protein of SARS-CoV reduces the induction of ISG expression in infected cells in comparison to SARS-CoV-...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></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:
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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:
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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 sample was obtained by as part of routine clinical care, solely for non-research purposes, carrying minimal risk, and were therefore granted a waiver of informed consent as reviewed under protocol number under IRB 21-018478.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Briefly, WGS of extracted viral RNA was performed as previously described using Paragon Genomics CleanPlex SARS-CoV-2 Research and Surveillance NGS Panel17,18.</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">All the high coverage SARS-CoV-2 genomes (n=236) were assigned a clonal complex using the GNUVID v2.2 database (version January 6th 2021)15.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GNUVID</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Temporal plots were plotted in GraphPad Prism v7.0a.</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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.21255350: (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 computational analyses and the fitting of data were performed using MATLAB and the corresponding optimization toolbox.</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:
  Limitations: We acknowledge that our findings come with a number of important limitations. Our findings are dependent on numerous assumptions about baseline transmission rate, probability of hospitalization, and other parameter values estimated from previous modeling studies that may impact our results. For simplicity, we chose not to account for age or the differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic transmission which may have altered our findings. Despite accounting for regional heterogeneity in contact rates and baseline transmission, superspreader events and smaller non-homogenous spatial units play a large role at this stage in the pandemic. Vaccine distribution is occurring in a manner which reinforces pre-existing health disparities, due to issues of both access and hesitancy [40]. This creates pockets of high-risk unvaccinated populations, which are sufficient to sustain transmission, even with high vaccination rates overall. Our model cannot account for this type of clustering of behavior or risk, which are important in understanding the probability of achieving sufficiently low levels of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Additionally, we do not account for the recent introduction and proliferation of numerous variant strains which have the potential to substantially alter transmission dynamics and vaccine efficacy [41]. Over time, current vaccines may be less effective at preventing infection due to new circulating variants, preventing attainment of herd immunity even w...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Peripheral blood was collected in accordance with a NYU Institutional Review Board protocols (IRB 18-02035, 18-02037 and 20-00463).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">We detected antigen-specific antibodies in heat-inactivated serum or plasma using anti-human IgG-Alexa 488 (Jackson Immunoresearch; catalog number 109-545-098, 1:800 in PBS 0.1 % Tween 20 and with 1 % BSA), anti-human IgA-PE (Jackson Immunoresearch; catalog number 109-115-011, 1:100) and anti-human IgM-DyLight405 (Jackson Immunoresearch; catalog number 709-475-073, 1:200).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antigen-specific</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG-Alexa</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgA-PE</div><div>suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 2050-09, RRID:AB_2795707)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgM-DyLight405</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">Single cell RNA-seq data processing: The Cellranger software suite (https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/software/pipelines/latest/what-is-cell-ranger) from 10X was used to demultiplex cellular barcodes, align reads to the human genome (GRCh38 ensemble, http://useast.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Info/Index) and perform UMI counting.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/software/pipelines/latest/what-is-cell-ranger</div><div>suggested: (Cell Ranger , RRID:SCR_017344)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We measured the samples on a Yeti ZE5 Cell Analyzer (Bio-Rad) and analyzed the data using FlowJo (BD, version 10.7.1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <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">14.2 (Stata Corp.) and IBM SPSS Statistics 26</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 was the short follow up time, and the current lack of data to evaluate effects on disease severity and hospitalizations and effects of specific virus variants. Surveillance data compiled by the Public Health Agency of Sweden suggest that 32 – 50% of the positive tests were of the B.1.1.7 variant in the study region during the last follow up period [3]. We also lacked data on disease history and co-existing conditions in the study population, preventing a detailed matching of vaccinated and unvaccinated beyond sex, age and follow up period. The main reason for vaccination in the study cohort was working in the health care sector, but individuals aged up to 64 years who were vaccinated due to their residence in special homes were also included. As we could not account for differences in health related to occupational status and residence across cohorts, we decided not to evaluate effects on all-cause mortality. However, we observed no deaths related to COVID-19 among the vaccinated. As a final limitation, it should be noted that we may to some extent underestimate VE due to unknown prior infections, especially as COVID-19 testing was limited in this population during the spring 2020. Several reports on VE of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine have already emerged since the recent launch of large vaccination campaigns in many parts of the world, Although we estimated the VE after 14 days after the first dose, we also studied the effect 0-6 days after the second dose with a c...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.21.21255410: (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">In the final protocol, five million anti-His antibody coupled magnetic beads were incubated with His-tagged antigens diluted in PBS at a concentration of 320 nM.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-His</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phycoerythrin (PE)-labeled secondary antibodies specific to IgG, IgA or IgM were used as detector antibodies (Supplementary Table 13).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Phycoerythrin (PE)-labeled</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>secondary antibodies specific to IgG, IgA or IgM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">50 µl diluted plasma were incubated with 50 µl of the ABCORA antigen bead cocktail for 30 minutes at room temperature in 96-well plates, washed three times with PBS-BSA 1% and incubated in separate reactions with phycoerythrin (PE)-labeled detector antibodies for IgG, IgA or IgM at a final concentration of 1/500 in PBS-BSA 1%.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>phycoerythrin (PE)-labeled detector antibodies for IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibody status of plasma from SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals (N=171) were analyzed with the following test systems: Included test systems targeted the N protein (Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 (Roche Diagnostics GmbH)), the RBD region of the S protein (Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S assay (Roche Diagnostics GmbH)), and the S1 subunit (EUROIMMUN Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA (IgG)) (Supplementary Table 7).</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA (IgG)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The first was based on the S1/RBD specific antibody CR3022 (37 and Supplementary Table 13).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S1/RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used this approach to quantify the concentration of RBD and S1 antibody reactivity in the positive donor control, and used titrations of the donor pool included on each ABCORA plate to calculate the S1 and RBD content of plasma samples in relation to it.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Association between HCoVs and SARS-CoV-2 reactivities: To explore the association between HCoVs and SARS-CoV-2 reactivities, we defined a new HCoV response variable (HCoV high/low) for each antibody class (IgG, IgA, IgM) as follows: a patient had high HCoV Ig reactivity for a given antibody class if its measurements were higher than the population median in at least three out of the four HCoV measurements (HKU1, OC43, NL63, 229E).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody class (IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA, IgM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NL63</div><div>suggested: (Virostat Cat# 3879, RRID:AB_2889994)</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">293-T cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC CRL-11268) 61.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293-T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HT1080/ACE2cl.14 cells 32 were kindly provided by P. Bieniasz, Rockefeller University, NY.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HT1080/ACE2cl.14</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ABCORA 2.0 included in addition S1 of HCoV-HKU1, ABCORA 5.0 included S1 of all circulating HCoVs (HCoV-NL63, HCoV-229E, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-OC43).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HCoV-NL63</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_RW88)</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 env-inactivated HIV-1 reporter construct pHIV-1NL4-3 ΔEnv-NanoLuc (pHIV-1Nanoluc) and HT1080/ACE2cl.14 cells were kindly provided by P. Bieniasz, Rockefeller University, NY, USA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-1NL4-3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To create a SARS-CoV-2 spike expression plasmid (P_CoV2_Wuhan), a codon-optimized C terminal truncated (AA 1255-1273) spike encoding gene of strain Wuhan-Hu-1 (GenBank accession no. MN908947) was synthesized (GeneArt, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) and cloned into pcDNA.3.1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA.3.1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2 spike expressing viruses were generated by co-transfecting 293-T cells with a mixture of pHIV-1Nanoluc, P_CoV2_Wuhan and PEI Max (Polysciences Europe GmbH, Hirschberg, Germany).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHIV-1Nanoluc</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">Plasma neutralization titers causing 50%, 80% and 90% reduction in viral infectivity (NT50, NT80 and NT90, respectively) compared to controls without plasma were calculated by fitting a sigmoid dose–response curve (variable slope) to the RLU data, using GraphPad Prism with constraints (bottom=0, top=100).</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">Figures were made using the ggplot2 package70.</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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  As others and we have shown, SARS-CoV-2 and HCoV immunity to infection is often not long-lasting (Fig. 5, Supplementary Fig. 10) 5,60, a limitation that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines hope to overcome. Should SARS-CoV-2 responses in turn provide a degree of defense against HCoV infection, broad protection against coronaviruses may be in reach.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  However, we recognise the difficulties in obtaining sensitive financial information and the limitations of relying on administrator or technician recall in the absence of reliable financial records. Finally, our case study highlights opportunities for priority improvements in existing oxygen systems. First, pulse oximeters are low-cost devices that were grossly lacking and could substantially improve rational use of existing oxygen supplies. Second, while many devices were not fit for use, support for technicians could likely rehabilitate some of these and prevent future growth of equipment graveyards (e.g. Open O2 in Malawi, www.openo2.org). Third, many devices did not have CE or similar quality control markings, highlighting the ongoing challenge of inappropriate equipment donation and procurement of consumer devices for medical purposes. Fourth, the differences between government and private facilities highlights that oxygen access is fundamentally an issue of equity, and efforts must include smaller, poorer, and more rural facilities that care for the most at-risk populations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 some limitations. First, because infectiousness in all places were not significantly different as results, data might be insufficient to do our procedure. When we accumulate the data, it might be solved partially. Second, because of data limitations, we cannot analyze characteristics such as those of patients or hospital staff, residents or staff at a facility for elderly persons, or students and teachers at a school. For example, infectiousness among students in school or among kids in nursery school, or of medical staff to patients are probably very important factors to control the outbreak. To resolve that difficulty to some degree, data accumulation is expected to be necessary in the near future. Thirdly, seasonality of infectiousness might be fundamentally important, as it has come to be for influenza. Because data used for this study were accumulated through July, we are unable to evaluate them. In winter, data must also be analyzed similarly. Risk related to location must be evaluated.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: All cell culture and plate preparation work were conducted under biosafety level 2 conditions, while all viral infections were conducted under biosafety level 3 conditions at Colorado State University.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Contamination: Cells were routinely tested for mycoplasma contamination by the cell culture core facility.</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">Expression of ACE2 was confirmed via immunoblot analysis (protocol described in Burke et al., 2019) using Anti-Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 antibody [EPR4435(2) (Abcam: ab108252) at 1:1000.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab108252, RRID:AB_10864415)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For immunofluorescence detection, cells were incubated with Rabbit polyclonal anti-PABP antibody (Abcam: ab21060) and Mouse monoclonal anti-G3BP antibody (Abcam: ab56574) primary antibodies at 1:1000 for two hours, washed three times, and then incubated with Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (Alexa Fluor® 647) (Abcam: ab150079) and Goat Anti-Mouse IgG H&L (FITC) (Abcam; ab97022) at 1:2000 for one hour.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-PABP</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab21060, RRID:AB_777008)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-G3BP</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab56574, RRID:AB_941699)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab150079, RRID:AB_2722623)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab97022, RRID:AB_10681023)</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">RL-KO) A549, U2-OS, and HEK293T cell lines are described in Burke et al., 2019.</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">The virus was passaged in Vero E6 cells, and viral titer was determined via plaque assay on Vero E6 as previously described in (Dulbecco et al., 1953).</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">A549 cells were infected with dengue virus serotype 2 16681 strain at an MOI of 0.1, and with influenza A/Udorn/72 virus strain at MOI of 0.5, as described in Burke et al., 2021. Generation of ACE2-expressing cell lines: HEK293T cells (T-25 flask; 80</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><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: The flag-Nsp1 and flag-Nsp15 vectors were generated by ligating a g-block [Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)] encoding for the flag and ORF of Nsp1 or Nsp15 between the xho1 and xba1 sites in pcDNA3.1+.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>flag-Nsp15</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA3.1+</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_117272)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pLEX307-ACE2-puro plasmid was a gift from Alejandro Chavez and Sho Iketani</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLEX307-ACE2-puro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">% confluent) were co-transfected with 2.4-ug of pLenti-pLex307-ACE lentiviral transfer plasmid (Addgene: 158448), 0.8-ug of pVSV-G, 0.8-ug of pRSV-Rev, and 1.4-ug of pMDLg-pRRE using 20-ul of lipofectamine 2000.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLenti-pLex307-ACE</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pVSV-G</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_138479)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pRSV-Rev</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12253)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMDLg-pRRE</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 probes were labeled with Atto-633 using ddUTP-Atto633 (Axxora: JBS-NU-1619-633), with ATTO-550 using 5-Propargylamino-ddUTP (Axxora; JBS-NU-1619-550), or ATTO-488 using 5-Propargylamino-ddUTP (Axxora; JBS-NU-1619-488) with terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (Thermo Fisher Scientific: EP0161) as described in (Gaspar et al., 2017).</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Z-planes were stacked, and minimum and maximum display values were set in ImageJ for each channel to properly view fluorescence.</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">Imaris Image Analysis Software (Bitplane) (University of Colorado-Boulder, BioFrontiers Advanced Light Microscopy Core) was used to quantify smFISH foci in nucleus and cytoplasm.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Imaris</div><div>suggested: (Imaris, RRID:SCR_007370)</div></div></td></tr></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">NCT04350671</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enrolling by invitation</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Interferon Beta 1a in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04388709</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">Interferon Lambda Therapy for COVID-19</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04552379</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 Containing Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) Trial</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 pages 9, 12, 5 and 7. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CRISPR knock-out loss-of-function screening study in SARS-CoV-2 infection in human cells: We use multiple sets of results from a genome-wide CRISPR study in a human alveolar basal epithelial carcinoma cell line, A549, with ACE2 expression (Daniloski et al., 2020).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 infection phosphoproteomics data: Bouhaddou et al. published time-course phosphoproteomics data in SARS-CoV-2 infection in Vero E6 cells and performed Gene Ontology enrichment analysis for human orthologues (Bouhaddou et al., 2020).</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">virus-human protein-protein interactions data: We use data from the IntAct database (Orchard et al., 2014), which contains 2,020 virus-human PPIs between 26 SARS-CoV-2 proteins and 1,341 human proteins compiled from 5 different studies, as of June 17, 2020.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IntAct</div><div>suggested: (IntAct, RRID:SCR_006944)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Network visualization: Network visualization was done using Cytoscape (Shannon et al., 2003).</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One limitation is a lack of our understanding as to why there are such differences in enrichment of indispensable nodes between the high and low MOI conditions (Figs. 3C and 3D). As another functional relevance of indispensable proteins, we also investigated the protein phosphorylation data. As shown in Fig 4A, there is a clear difference of enrichment between the infection and non-infection samples for phosphorylation-regulated biological processes. However, post-infection differences over time are unclear. We do not expect to observe significant enrichment of indispensable nodes in all systems. For example, we previously observed that GWAS hits were not enriched in indispensable nodes (Vinayagam et al., 2016). We also observed that another GWAS study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans by Regeneron Inc. (Kosmicki et al., 2021) does not give rise to GWAS hits that are enriched in indispensable nodes (data not shown). Although we showed that the 23 GWAS hits by another study (Taylor et al., 2020) are enriched in indispensable nodes (Fig. 4B), the number of hits is relatively small, suggesting that statistical robustness may not be guaranteed. With those caveats and limitations in individual analyses of 7 different large-scale studies in mind, we identified those indispensable proteins with multiple supports of both physical and functional interactions with SARS-CoV-2 proteins (Figs. 5A and Fig. S5). We consider them as high confident with independent and complementary data supp...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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:
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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">Each variant considered in the present study has been obtained manually mutating the experimental complex via the Pymol software [35].</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">Molecular dynamics simulations: All simulations were performed using Gromacs [36].</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.
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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">Contamination: They were routinely screened for mycoplasma contamination.<br>Authentication: We determined specificity by immunoblotting and immunofluorescence using control and cells expressing SARS CoV-1 3a.</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">Commercial primary antibodies were mouse anti-GM130 and mouse anti-p230 (BD Transduction Labs), and rabbit anti-giantin (Covance Research Products)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-GM130</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-p230</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-giantin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Fluorescent secondary antibodies were from Life Technologies: Alexa Fluor 488 donkey anti-rabbit IgG, Alexa Fluor 568 donkey anti-mouse IgG, and Cy5 donkey anti-rabbit IgG.</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>Cy5 donkey anti-rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing, secondary antibodies (IRDye 800 donkey anti-rabbit IgG, LiCOR) were applied for 1h at RT and after washing, blots were quantified on LiCOR Odyssey CLx system and Image Studio (LiCOR)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-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">Transfection: Vero cells were plated at 2×105 per 35 mm dish on coverslips for indirect immunofluorescence microscopy, or 4×105 in 6 well dishes for trafficking experiments.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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">CoV-1 (Tor2 strain) was originally obtained from the Institute for Genomic Research and subcloned into pBluescript (Stratagene) prior to transferring to pCAGGS-MCS [17] after PCR amplification with KpnI and XhoI restriction sites.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pBluescript</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCAGGS-MCS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pCAGGS plasmids encoding IBV E and SARS CoV-1 E have been previously described [10,18].</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">Plasmids pCAGGS/SARS S and pCAGGS/SARS M were previously described [20], as was the pCAGGS/VSVG plasmid [21].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCAGGS/SARS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCAGGS/VSVG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pGnT1-pHorin and TGN-pHlorin plasmids [22] were kindly provided by Dr. Yasuke Maeda (Osaka University, Japan).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pGnT1-pHorin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TGN-pHlorin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For immunofluorescence, 0.5 ug of SARS 3a or IBV E (with or without 0.2 ug of one of the pHlorin plasmids) by adding to 100 ul OPTI-MEM (Life Technologies) with diluted XtremeGene-9 (Roche), per the manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHlorin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For the trafficking experiments, 0.5 ug of 3a or E was mixed with 0.5 ug SARS CoV S or VSV-G.</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><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">Images were acquired on an Axioskop microscope (Zeiss) equipped for epifluorescence using an Orca-03G CCD camera (Hamamatsu) and iVision software (BioVision Technologies).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>iVision</div><div>suggested: (iVision, RRID:SCR_014786)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Images (acquired with the same parameters) were analyzed by outlining the stained Golgi elements after background subtraction using the trapezoid tool in ImageJ (Fiji), and the area occupied by each marker was quantified using the measure tool in the analysis menu.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Fiji</div><div>suggested: (Fiji, RRID:SCR_002285)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analysis was in Prism GraphPad 8.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were collected and analyzed using FACS Diva 8.0 software and Excel.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Excel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One limitation of our study is that we only examined cells expressing the viral proteins from cDNA. In the future, it will be important to measure the luminal pH of Golgi, endosomes and lysosomes in infected cells. Our previous results with IBV E suggest that the phenotypes in cells overexpressing the protein might be exaggerated but accurately reflect the function in infected cells [7, 11, 12]. Proteolytic processing of S in both SARS CoV-1 and -2 infected cells when the 3a protein is compromised will also need to be assessed. Importantly, specific inhibition of 3a channel function with repurposed or new drugs may provide additional treatments for SARS, MERS and COVID-19 [3, 32].
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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">Cell type detection: Here we compiled a set of markers for each organ/tissue cell type as described in the UCSC cell browser (https://cells.ucsc.edu/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCSC cell browser</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.
  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">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">Briefly, nucleotide sequences were aligned with MAFFT [39] and the resulting multiple sequence alignment was used as an input for a maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference analysis, carried out with IQ-TREE [40] under a generalized time reversible (GTR) model of molecular evolution.</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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phylogenetic trees were rooted based on the oldest genotype available, which in this case was Wuhan-Hu-1, and graphically rendered using FigTree v.1.1.4.</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 number of non-synonymous mutations, insertions and deletions affecting the spike protein of at least 50% of the genomes belonging to the A.2.5 and B.1.214.2 lineages sampled from February 1st 2021 was calculated with MEGA X [41], compared with the reference genotype Wuhan-Hu-1.</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 found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  No 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">Euthanasia Agents: All hamsters were euthanized by intraperitoneal injection of pentobarbital at 200 mg/kg.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Hamster Infection: Female golden Syrian hamsters, aged 6-8 weeks old, were obtained from the LASEC, Chinese University of Hong Kong via the Centre for Comparative Medicine Research at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">For animal challenge, viral stocks were prepared after two serial passages of isolated virus in Vero E6 cells in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 100 IU penicillin G/ml and 100 ml streptomycin sulfate/ml (Thermo Fisher Scientific).</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">In-vitro Competitive Fitness Assay: Calu-3 cells in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and 100 IU penicillin G/ml and 100 ml streptomycin sulfate/ml (Thermo Fisher Scientific) were infected with MOI of 0.1 of B.1.1.7 and another variant of the D614G lineage, either B.1-G (HK-95) or B.1.GH (405) mixture at 1:1 ratios.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3</div><div>suggested: KCLB Cat# 30055, RRID:CVCL_0609)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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: Serum samples: Serum samples used for neutralisation assays were generated and selected with the consent of the sponsor (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), as previously described8.<br>IACUC: Parent vaccine efficacy studies were approved by the Animal Ethics Committee at CSIRO ACDP (Approval Reference: AEC 2004).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, four male and four female ferrets received two doses of INO-4800 via intramuscular administration of 1 mg plasmid DNA to the caudal thigh muscle, followed by electroporation split across two sites using the CELLECTRA® device.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">VIC31 Passage 2, VIC17990 Passage 2, and 501Y.V2.HV001 Passage 4 virus stocks were grown in VeroE6 cells (CCL81; American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, VA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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">ATCC VeroE6 cells were additionally used for virus neutralisation assays (see below). Next-Generation Sequencing: Virus stocks were sequenced using a MiniSeq platform (Illumina, Inc; San Diego, CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MiniSeq</div><div>suggested: None</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:
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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: Participants were required to have a definitive diagnosis and appropriate consent and samples collected within 72hrs of admission to the ICU in order to be included.<br>IRB: This study was approved by the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board (CHREB) at the University of Calgary (Ethics ID: REB20-0481) and is consistent with and 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">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">IL-28a, IL-33, IP-10, LIF, MCP-1, MCP-2, MCP-3, MCP-4, MDC, MIP-1α, MIP-1β, MIP-1d, PDGF-AA, PDGF-AB/BB, RANTES, SDF-1 a+b, sCD40L, SCF,TARC, TGFa, TNFa, TNFb, TPO, TRAIL, TSLP, VEGF) and a 14 MilliPLEX soluble cytokine (sCD30, sEGFR, sgp130, sIL-1RI, sIL-1RII, sIL-2Ra, sIL-4R, sIL-6R, sRAGE, sTNF RI, sTNF RII, sVEGF R1, sVEGF R2, sVEGF R3) arrays (Millipore Sigma, Oakville, ON, Canada) on a Luminex Model 200 Luminometer (Luminex Corporation, Austin, TX)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>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">Cell density was quantified with a hemacytometer, cell viability was assessed with Trypan Blue staining (T8154; Sigma Aldrich), and 7500 live lymphocytes were transferred to a sterile 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tube.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>T8154; Sigma Aldrich</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sequencing reads were aligned using CellRanger 3.1.0 pipeline33 to the standard pre-built GRCh38 reference genome.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CellRanger</div><div>suggested: (SCIGA, RRID:SCR_021002)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Boxplots comparing cell type composition were generated using the 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">Differential cell-cell interaction networks were reconstructed using the Connectome R toolkit v0.2.240 and CellChat v1.0.0 41.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Connectome R toolkit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential edge list was passed through CircosDiff (a wrapper around the R package ‘circlize’) and CellChat’s netVisual_chord_gene to filter receptor-ligand edges and generate Circos plots.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, neutrophils were subsetted from scVelo-realigned Seurat object and processed using default and recommended parameters specified in SCENIC’s vignette (https://github.com/aertslab/SCENIC) using the hg19 RcisTarget reference.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://github.com/aertslab/SCENIC</div><div>suggested: (SCENIC, RRID:SCR_017247)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Rds’) was profiled using g:Profiler’s functional enrichment analysis and genes intersecting with the Interferon pathway were plotted using iRegulon (Cytoscape plugin)45. COVID Neutrophil Atlas: To enable intuitive exploration of single-cell datasets, a web portal (http://biernaskielab.ca/covid_neutrophil or http://biernaskielab.com/covid_neutrophil) was built using RShiny v1.1.0, shinyLP v.1.1.2, and shinythemes v.</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></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:
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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">IACUC: Study approval: Animal experiments involving SARS-CoV-2 were conducted in a BSL3 facility and treatment of animals was in accordance with regulations outlined in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Welfare Act and the conditions specified in the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (National Institute of Health, 2011).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice: Homozygous female outbred K18-hACE2 transgenic mice (2B6.Cg-Tg(K18-ACE2)2Prlmn/J, Stock No: 034860, Jackson laboratory) 6-8 weeks old were maintained at 20-22°C with relative humidity of 50 ± 10% on a 12hrs light/dark cycle.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice were randomly assigned to experimental groups of 7-8 mice per group.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Purified anti-DYKDDDDK Tag Antibody (Cat#637302, BioLegend)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-DYKDDDDK</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 637302, RRID:AB_1134268)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The following secondary antibodies were used: Alexa Fluor 647-conjugated Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG (Cat#111-606-144, Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: (Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs Cat# 111-606-144, RRID:AB_2338083)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Afterwards, cells were washed in FACS buffer and stained with Alexa Fluor 647-conjugated anti-human IgG secondary antibody.</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">Cells were then washed, and an Alexa Fluor 647 Anti-Mouse IgG secondary antibody was added.</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><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">Generation of 293T-Spike cells: First, 293T cells were grown overnight in 6-well plates (2.2X105 cells/well).</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">The 293T-ACE2 cells lysate was prepared and 10 ug of it was incubated with RBD-Ig according to the manufacturer instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-ACE2</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_YZ65)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Vero E6 cell monolayers were washed once with DMEM and 200µl of each dilution of protein-virus mixture was added in triplicates for 1 hour at 37°C.</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">Sera were diluted to 1:500, 1:1K, 1:5K, 1:10K per well and added to 50,000 293T-Parental cells or 293T-Spike cells in a 96-U-well plate for 1 hour at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-Parental</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blocking with mice sera: Sera from the various immunized mice groups was diluted to 1:100 per well and added to 50K 293T-Parental cells or 293T-Spike cells in a 96-U-well plate for 1 hour at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-Spike</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 flag-tagged ACE2 was cloned into the plasmid pHAGE-DsRED(-) GFP(+).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pHAGE-DsRED(-</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">As a control we performed the same co-transfection but with the VSV-G envelope plasmid.</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><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics: Statistical analysis were performed using either Prism 8 (GraphPad) or Excel (Microsoft).</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Excel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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 found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></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:
  These results have a number of limitations. We have assumed that individuals are removed from the epidemic process at the end of their infective period, as we consider the final size of each local epidemic, and thus do not account for the possibility of reinfection. In using a branching process, we have implicitly assumed a very large number of local communities, so that at least initially, each global transmission is to a new site, and ignores the possibility of a second epidemic in the same location. This assumption is reasonable in the context of prisons, where there are indeed many sites. The assumption of a homogeneous rate of transfer per individual across all prisons may be limiting as heterogeneity may be important. This approach is applicable to analysis of risk due to transmission between sites in a variety of hotspot settings of transmission including but not limited to prisons. Transfer, migration, and mixing between sites may be important sources of risk in other locations of high transmission as well, such as jails, ICE facilities, skilled nursing care facilities, meat packing plants, and other agricultural operations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255300: (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: Consent was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi and the Drug Controller General of India for permission to repurpose iNO.<br>IRB: Consent was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi and the Drug Controller General of India for permission to repurpose iNO.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: The study was conducted as a Phase II open-label, randomised controlled feasibility trial at a single tertiary referral centre in South India.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The laboratory obtaining and analysing specimens was blinded to allocation.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This report suffers from several limitations. First, larger conclusions as to the size of the treatment effect cannot be made from this small feasibility trial. Since other antivirals were also used, it cannot be conclusively shown that the antiviral efficacy was predominantly or solely owing to iNO. The doses used in this study use the highest doses available on the SLE Inosys (SLE Surrey, UK) delivery platform and it is uncertain whether a different dosing regimen will be efficacious. Since dexamethasone was also used universally in the study population, clinical improvement may have also accrued to it (4). Finally, it is uncertain whether iNO would be equally efficacious in sicker patients. In sum, we offer the first composite evidence of the utility of inhaled Nitric Oxide on accelerating viral clearance of SARS CoV-2 infection in hypoxemic patients with Covid-19. Its use appears to improve clinical recovery without any attendant harms and the results of this trial should be extended in a larger trial population.
  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">ISRCTN16806663</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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255441: (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: Each participant or his/her guardian was provided written informed consent prior to the initiation of any study procedures.<br>IRB: The central institutional review board (IRB) or a local IRB at each center approved the 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">In addition, females of childbearing potential who were either pregnant or sexually active and not using birth control were excluded.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 and subjects: This was a multicenter randomized controlled trial conducted in 36 centers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The performance characteristics of the FLU-PRO instrument and appropriateness of background levels in subjects with SARS-CoV-2 infection were confirmed by blinded analysis of diary data for this study after database lock and prior to unblinding.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right: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 sample size of 312 subjects (156 per group) was calculated to provide 90% power to detect a statistically significant difference in the survival distributions between the nitazoxanide and placebo groups (two-sided α =0.05).</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 FLU-PRO instrument has been validated for use in subjects with influenza and influenza-like illnesses20.</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">Blood samples collected at baseline and day 22 were tested for quantitative anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Subjects were enrolled based upon symptoms to ensure early treatment, avoiding limitations associated with the availability and delays in diagnostic testing, and 379 subjects with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were analyzed for effectiveness. The trial was appropriately blinded, and subjects were closely followed for 28 days. Endpoints developed early during the course of the pandemic were objective and well-defined, and rigorous data collection procedures were employed. Treatment with nitazoxanide 600 mg orally twice daily for five days was associated with an 85% reduction in the rate of progression to severe illness (the key secondary endpoint). All severe illnesses occurred in the subgroup of subjects at high risk of severe illness according to CDC criteria, and all occurred between study days 3 and 10. Treatment with nitazoxanide was also associated with a 79% reduction in the rate of hospitalization. While the overall number of events is low, the number are consistent with and compare favorably to those used to support approval of monoclonal antibodies for use under Emergency Use Authorization in the United States3,4,21,22. Notably, severe illnesses were associated with high viral loads in nasopharyngeal swabs collected at either the baseline visit or day 4. Similar observations have been reported by others21,23. In the analysis of the primary endpoint, treatment with nitazoxanide was not associated with a reduction of TSR (a measure of the duration of meaningful sympto...
  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">NCT04486313</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">Trial to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Nitazoxanide in the…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.18.21255699: (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: Approval was obtained from Health Canada (Health Canada registration number: 249512) and the CHUM Institutional Review Board and Ethics committee (Registration No. 20.012) prior to trial performance.<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to inclusion 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">Healthy males and females aged 18-59 years without comorbidities were recruited.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: We performed a non-contact, open-label, prospective randomised clinical trial comparing intranasally applied Lactococcus lactis W136 with saline irrigation alone in patients within 96 hours of diagnosis of SARS-COV-2 infection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Strategies for reducing bias: This trial was single blinded and open label.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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: Given the lack of validated instruments to measure SARS-COV-2 symptoms, we opted to assess all of the symptoms accepted as reported in SARS-COV-2 infection at the time of trial design.</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, in this instance, systemic involvement does not appear to be present, as at same timepoints where dyspnea is reported as maximal, the same individual reported a score of “0” for every other measured symptom, having completely recovered their sense of smell and manifesting no Fatigue, Limitation of activities or chills. On telephone follow up one month after end of study, this subjects’ symptoms had cleared completely. This may be considered to be reflection of the discrepancies involved between subjective questionnaires and objective assessments in other studies of SARS-COV-2 and serve to highlight the need to perform future studies in-person, with nasal examinations to collect secretions and assess toxicity, and use of home pulse oximetry to accurately assess O2 saturation. A concern may be the effectiveness in the context of emerging variants increasing contagion and potentially reducing vaccine efficiency. variants. Our postulated mechanism of action suggests induction of non-specific anti-viral responses which should not be modified by the modification of antigen targets on the virus, as can be observed with variants, but will need to be confirmed by monitoring subject’s variant status in future studies. LIMITATIONS: This study has major limitations. This proof-of-concept study was designed to assess a novel therapy in the context of the early pandemic and was powered to detect only major effects, if present. While our estimates of ability to perform irrigation 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">NCT04458519</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 of Intranasal Probiotic Treatment to Reduce Severit…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255742: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics: The project was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.<br>Consent: All participants gave their verbal consent to participate in this study during the phone interview (project-ID CER-VD 2020-01107 and 2019-02283).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">STATA (version 15.1, Stata Corp, College Station, TX, USA) statistical software and GraphPad Prism 8.3 (GraphPad, San Diego, CA, USA) were used for analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>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 limitations. First, most surveyed symptoms are subjective and prone to observer bias. Symptoms may also come from an intercurrent condition at the time of COVID-19 diagnosis and not always represent sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, inclusion of a symptomatic control group supports the association between some symptoms and SARS-CoV-2 infection. Furthermore, this reflects the clinical reality that physicians face in a post-COVID consultation. Since the prevalence of most symptoms was lower than 10%, the absence of difference may be due to a lack of statistical power to detect an association with COVID-19. Our study suffers from a selection bias due to SARS-CoV-2 test criteria (health care workers or presence of a risk factor of adverse outcome) at the time of the study, which may prevent generalization of our findings to the broad population. In addition, we included a SARS-CoV-2 PCR negative control group, who had a slightly different clinical presentation (only patients with acute respiratory symptoms) compared to COVID-positive (any symptom suggestive of COVID-19). Furthermore, we cannot formally exclude that some COVID-negative had an undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 infection due to a false negative PCR result. However, we used a validated SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test on a nasopharyngeal swab performed by a dedicated trained medical team to minimize technical and sample collection bias (19,39). In conclusion, our study shows that more than half of outpatients ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21254974: (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 protocol was approved in writing by the local Institutional Review Board.<br>Consent: Data Collection: After obtaining assent from the treating team and verbal consent from the patient or proxy, a research physician scanned 12 lung zones (Figure 1), similar to prior protocols.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 scanners were blinded to CT results, though not to NAT results (positive results are prominently displayed in the chart), at the time of scanning.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 was subject to several limitations. First, this was a single-center study, using a convenience sample of inpatients based on scanning physician availability. However, there have been relatively few prospective studies to date, particularly multi-center studies. Validation studies performed at other centers are warranted and welcome. Second, our study examined only inpatients (mostly from the ward, with a small number of ICU patients); it is unknown whether this scanning protocol would yield similar results for outpatients or ED patients. Third, the relatively high incidence of COVID-19 (26.6%) could lead to a spectrum effect. However, this incidence is lower than some other studies, and our sample did include many patients with low-suspicion CXR and CT results. Fourth, we note that, although many of our patients were quite sick, none of them were proned at the time of exam. It is unknown whether our protocol would have the same accuracy in proned patients. However, it is rare to prone a ward patient without a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Fifth, although scanning physicians were blinded to CT results, they were not blinded to NAT status (positive COVID status is displayed prominently in our hospital electronic record); it is possible that sampling bias of the lung zones was introduced. However, COVID-positive and PUI patients had similar POCUS scan times. Sixth, none of the patients with an initial negative NAT subsequently had a positive NAT. However, this was 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:
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your 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:
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  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.14.21255512

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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Our analysis has several limitations. First, COVID-19 deaths were attributed to the month in which the deaths were reported and not necessarily to the month in which the individuals died. As such, it is likely that, in some instances, we have attributed COVID-19-related deaths to later months than the months in which they actually occurred. Second, because causes of death were not included in death data provided by FLDOC, we were unable to attribute age and sex to reported COVID-19 deaths. As a result, we cannot specifically attribute changes in age-specific mortality rates to COVID-19. Nevertheless, the age-specific increases in overall mortality rates are in line with changes in mortality rates due to COVID-19 found in other settings.26,27 Lastly, mortality events among the prison population may not be observed or recorded if an individual who is terminally ill is granted parole or compassionate release. If the pandemic occasioned a substantial year-to-year change in the number of individuals being released through either of these channels, our analysis might fail to accurately capture changes in the mortality risks to the Florida prison population. To date, however, there is no evidence of such a change.28 Conclusion: To protect vulnerable incarcerated populations—including those held in FLDOC facilities—from COVID-19 and future viral pandemics, we must identify effective strategies for preventing infections in custody, for containing transmission, and providi...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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">Correct audio signal was selected by comparing the sum of variances of the recorded signals, and then filtered using a three-point moving average filter to remove random fluctuations between samples of the audio signal as illustrated in Figure 1(b).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.21255640

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255640: (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).<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained via the 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">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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, 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:
  Several limitations associated with the present study warrant mention. First, this study was a cross-sectional study, so causality is unclear. More psychologically anxious people may have been prone to underestimate the efficacy of the infection control measures in the workplace. However, since this study inquired about the existence of visible and physical measures, we believe that the likelihood of wrong answers was low. Second, we did not confirm the time when the countermeasures were implemented. This study investigated the situation as of December 2020, when the infection was at its peak in Japan. Therefore, the degree of the subjects’ anxiety and their reaction to their workplace’s efforts may have differed between the time when the infection rate was relatively low and the time of the survey, when the rate was relatively high. Third, we did not ask about the subjects’ workplaces or industries in detail, but some of these factors likely affected the results, such as the size of the workplace space (small office vs. a large space, such as a retail store) or how often the subjects were in contact with unspecified numbers of people. Finally, establishments that have implemented many measures are more likely to be companies that are enthusiastic about mental health measures and consider their employees’ well-being on a regular basis, so the mental burden may have already been low at baseline; however, this aspect was not evaluated. This study suggests that proactive COVID-1...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255755: (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 performed a comprehensive literature search in the databases of PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and medRxiv from Feb 2020 to Feb 6th, 2021.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Embase</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PsycINFO</div><div>suggested: (PsycINFO, RRID:SCR_014799)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We used the search query, reported in Appendix 1, and entered these keywords in each database using Boolean operators within the titles, abstracts, keywords, and subject headings (for example, MeSH terms). 2.3 Eligibility Criteria: In this systematic review, we included original empirical studies that have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults’ mental health in African countries if they met the following criteria: We excluded studies based on the following criteria: A researcher (WX) contacted the authors of papers if they missed important information.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.4 Screening and Data Extraction: One researcher (JC) exported the included articles from the databases into an EndNote library where we identified duplicates and then imported the articles to Rayyan for screening.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  4.3 Limitations and Future Work: Our meta-analysis is not free of limitations. First, the validity of our findings depends on the quality and reporting of the original studies included in the meta-analysis. The individual mental health studies employed a variety of instruments, cutoff scores, levels of cutoff scores to classify the severity of mental illness, and various reporting standards. For example, many studies report the overall prevalence rates without specifying which/how cutoff scores are utilized. While we have tried to reduce the additional noise and variance in the meta-analysis by paying extra attention to the severity, cutoff points, and the manners in which individual articles utilized and reported cutoff points, the profusion of different practices can lead to some biases and noise. Second, this systematic review identified empirical studies from only 12 out of the 48 Africa countries. On studies have appeared on the mental health of people in three quarters of African countries, even though those African countries are not immune to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, we call for research to investigate the mental health issues in Africa, the least studied continent with the majority of the countries without any studies. A possible reason is that we included articles published in English, which may result in some biases. Third, 96.7% of the studies included in this meta-analysis conducted cross-sectional surveys, whereas only 3.3% of the articles used cohort studie...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.17.21255540

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.17.21255540: (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 local Institutional Review Board (protocol n 34/int/2020; NCT04318366).<br>Consent: Patients signed a written informed consent granting permission to access their sensitive data for the purposes of this study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were cross-checked in blind and verified by data managers and clinicians for accuracy.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Antiphospholipid antibodies including IgG and IgM anticardiolipin (aCL), antiβ2-glycoprotein (aB2GPI) and anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin (aPSPT) antibodies were measured by using a Bioflash® automated chemiluminescent analyser.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antiphospholipid antibodies including IgG and IgM anticardiolipin ( aCL)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antiβ2-glycoprotein</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin ( aPSPT )</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses were performed with the SPSS 24 (SPSS Inc. /IBM) and the R software version 3.4.0</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>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study encompasses some limitations: first, our cohort was limited to hospitalized patients and results could be different in less severe COVID-19 disease. Second, the definition of newly diagnosed diabetes did not exclude stress-induced hyperglycemia and, as the study included mainly patients with the characteristics of type 2 diabetes, we cannot generalize our findings to other types of diabetes. Third, even if the overall venous and arterial thromboembolism rate was similar to that described until now in various studies (18), our monocentric cohort was relatively small, and, therefore, a selection bias cannot be excluded. Fourth, we were unable to evaluate the specific role of some markers as predictors of thrombosis in multivariate models since a complete set of biochemical coagulation data was available only for a fraction of patients. Nevertheless our study generated additional valuable knowledge about the role of diabetes in predicting thrombotic events and in stratifying their prognostic significance. In conclusion, many evidences indicate that patients with diabetes, in case of COVID-19 pneumonia, carry a significant increased risk for adverse clinical outcome when compared with patients without diabetes. It is clear from our study that part of this risk is due to an increase in thromboembolic complications. These findings suggest that in in case of SARS-Cov-2 pneumonia, patients with diabetes could be considered for a more intensive prophylactic anticoagulation r...
  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">NCT04318366</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 Patients Characterization, Biobank, Treatment Respo…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.19.21255747

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.19.21255747: (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 protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Health Carlos III (PI 33_2020-v3) and the Ethics Committee of each 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">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">Clinical data and samples: Epidemiological, clinical, disease evolution data, as well as laboratory parameters such as PT, international normalized ratio (INR) and APTT were collected from clinical records using an electronic case report form (eCRF) which was built using 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></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:
  Several limitations should be considered. First one is the limited sample size, of healthy and asymptomatic cases, which could have limited the possibility to find statistical significance differences in some comparisons. Second one is that we have analysed five coagulation protein; as coagulation cascade is extremely complex, further studies should consider additional factors to fully describe the COVID-19 effects over the entire coagulation cascade. However, these additional factors have been extensively studied, and we analysed those that were not previously addressed. In conclusion, our results indicate that: 1) COVID-19 causes an early increase of some specific coagulation proteins such as antithrombin, prothrombin, contact factors and factor XIII in most patients, even in those who won’t suffer from clinically significant disease, suggesting that commonly elevated D-dimer levels are driven by an initial enhanced procoagulant state and not just by hyperfibrinolysis; 2) Although not reflected in routine tests such as PT and APTT, and despite common initial hyperfibrinogenemia, patients who will eventually advance to severe disease show early decreased levels of these anticoagulant and procoagulant markers, suggesting factor consumption, an these levels were associated with higher COVID-19 related mortality. Evolving investigations will allow us to better clarify the crosstalk between the immune and clotting systems in this pandemic disease.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.19.21255759

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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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  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: Consent forms were filled by the participants and the study was approved by an ethical committee at the Department of Biology, University of Garmian that follow the rules adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki for human and animal 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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The limitation of the current work was that we can only explore the N501 mutation. Development of this method is required to identify other mutations such as K417N mutation, which co-occurred with N501Y in the South African B.1.351 variant, and K417T mutation, which is present in the Brazil variant. However, our sequencings found A570D and D614G mutations as well. Absence of K417N/T but presence of A570D in our sequences, suggested that the N501Y mutant samples are potentially the UK B.1.1.7 variant, not the South Africa or Brazil variants. Further study to find other common mutations such as K417N/T, E484K, P681H and Del69/70 residues of the spike protein should be taken into considerations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.21255649

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255649: (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">18,19 To capture the changes of contact patterns as a result of social distancing measures, we took into account school closure policies and reduced contact rates at both work and other places using Google mobility data.20-22 In Japan, most schools that had been temporarily closed reopened on June 1, 2020, whereas in South Korea, school attendance has been capped at two-thirds during national distancing level 1, one-thirds during level 2 (except for high schools which remained 2/3), and remote learning only during level 3 throughout 2020 (Figure 1).</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Moreover, there is a caveat to interpret the qi results, since it could be affected by contact numbers, ϕij. Japan showed much lower qi values for individuals aged below 10 years than South Korea, and we assumed that the different school closure policies could explain the discrepancy; contrary to Japan, South Korea maintained restrictions on the number of students in school and the qi might have decreased as low as Japan if it had not regulated school attendance. In addition, previous studies suggested that older age might contribute to vulnerability to COVID-19 infection, it is possible that biological aspects also affect the value of qi then further investigation would be desirable in this area.30 There are several limitations to this study. First, although the contact matrix is the most important variable in this model, we do not have empirical data for the current mixing patterns. We tried to modify the existing prepandemic contact matrix to make it as realistic as possible, but it might be insufficient to reflect reality. Besides, in the existing Japanese contact matrix, the 20–29 year age group is marginally under-represented, and for South Korean contact matrix, we had to adopt the estimated result, not the measured one, since there was no available national survey data so far.8,18 Secondly, we did not take essential worker status and co-morbidities into consideration for our model. Third, seasonality would undoubtedly affect COVID-19 transmission, but it was hard to 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.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.14.21255500

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255500: (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 particular, we used the optimizer algorithm Nelder-Mead (Gao and Han, 2012) implemented in SciPy (Virtanen et al., 2020) to tune 6 parameters of the model.</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></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.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.21255558

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255558: (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 caveats of course – the R statistic could be calculated in a more nuanced way; the number of sample countries and frequency of sampling could be increased; the study could be extended outside Europe – but I do wish to make the point that all my calculations are based on empirical and publicly available data from official sources. The only modelling involved is my calculation of R – but my calculated numbers are conservative and close to observed, for example to the UK figures - www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk. A second caveat is that there could be an overlap between people who are active cases and people who are vaccinated – i.e. one could double count them. But is it both unlikely and also would not have much effect on the V ratio as the difference between the vaccination and active case percentages are large. So, if the active cases are 0.5% and the vaccination percentage is 5 then the V ratio is 10. If all the active cases are also in the vaccination percentage then the V ratio becomes 4.5%/0.5%, a value of nine, with little change in the V ratio. However, more nuanced calculation of the V ratio needs to take account of the demographics of different countries, whether active cases are a percentage of the total whole population or just of the population of potential active cases. However, such distinctions should not make major change to my essential message that there exists a range of V ratio values that inversely correlate with the R statistic and c...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255502: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255562: (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:
  Second, evaluating more parsimonious models allows us to infer some general rules of thumb regarding mobility metrics and their association with R(t) while identifying major limitations in the creation and interpretation of these metrics. Besides percent change in the number of individuals traveling into a county, entropy and dwell remain in our parsimonious model. As entropy, or the unpredictability of individuals movement increases, R(t) also increases. Anecdotally this process makes sense as individuals traveling to more locations than usual may be increasing their contact network. However, a decrease in the number of locations that a user visits can also be considered to be unpredictable and therefore result in higher entropy, underscoring the impact of appropriate baselines. Changes in entropy from week to week with no exogenous interventions should be interpreted in a different light than changes in entropy during the implementation of a travel restriction. Dwell, or the average number of locations an individual in a county spends at least 5 minutes, had an unexpected negative relationship with R(t) in our parsimonious model, likely due to artifacts of the way in which these data are collected on device. In following orders for travel restrictions or physical distancing, one might reasonably expect this metric to decrease and that individuals may travel to fewer locations. However, in our data, dwell increases almost universally in the aftermath of such interventions. T...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255389: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The main limitation in our study are limited subgroup sizes, which reduced the likelihood to detect differences between rare characteristics. Others are the one-time assessment, subjective symptom duration, and the variable manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection (4). Strengths include standardized procedures conducted by trained medical staff and the prospective nature of the study evaluating patient groups during the same time period, reducing the likelihood of confounding due to temporal effects. SARS-CoV-2 VOC B.1.1.7 is now the dominant lineage in Berlin. On the outpatient level, there appears to be no major difference in clinical manifestation.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: 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:
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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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.17.21255663: (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 DUHS Institutional Review Board.<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all study participants or their legal guardians, with written approval obtained using an electronic consent document.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Measurement of serum SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies: We measured serum antibodies using a customized binding antibody multiplex assay to the following SARS-CoV-2 antigens: whole spike (S), subunit 1 (S1), subunit 2 (S2), receptor binding domain (RBD),</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>, subunit 1 ( S1) , subunit 2 ( S2) , receptor binding domain ( RBD) ,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibody binding to the bead-coupled antigens was then detected with phycoerythrin (PE)-conjugated mouse anti-human IgG, IgM or IgA (Southern Biotech) at 2 μg/ml, using a Bio-Plex 200 instrument (Bio-Rad Laboratories), which rendered a mean fluorescent intensity (MFI) for each sample.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 Pseudovirus Neutralization Assays: SARS-CoV-2 neutralization was measured with spike-pseudotyped viruses in HEK-293T-hACE2 cells as a function of reduction in luciferase (Luc) reporter activity.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirions were produced in HEK 293T/17 cells (ATCC) by using FuGene 6 (Promega) and co-transfecting spike plasmid, lentiviral backbone plasmid (pCMV ΔR8.2), a firefly luciferase reporter gene plasmid (pHR’ CMV Luc) [1], and a plasmid containing TMPRSS2 (required for cell entry).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK 293T/17</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# CRL-11268, RRID:CVCL_1926)</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">Pseudovirions were produced in HEK 293T/17 cells (ATCC) by using FuGene 6 (Promega) and co-transfecting spike plasmid, lentiviral backbone plasmid (pCMV ΔR8.2), a firefly luciferase reporter gene plasmid (pHR’ CMV Luc) [1], and a plasmid containing TMPRSS2 (required for cell entry).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pCMV ΔR8.2</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">43 Study data were managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at Duke University.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REDCap</div><div>suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">44 Analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Software, Inc., CA, US) and R version 4.0.3.45</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:
  Our study has several limitations. First, we focused on pediatric and adult populations with asymptomatic and mild infections, but did not include participants with severe COVID-19 or children with MIS-C; thus, our findings are generalizable only to individuals with asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Second, we did not evaluate cellular immunity, which is likely required for long-term immunological memory.3 Third, while several studies in adults have measured antibody responses out to 8 months after acute infection, we currently only have data for children and adolescents up to 4 months after infection. Finally, additional studies will be needed to assess the impact of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants on viral-specific immune responses in children and adolescents and define if immune responses induced by prior infections are able to protect against these variants. In conclusion, we found that children and adolescents with asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection mount broad, effective, and durable antibody responses that exhibit robust viral neutralizing activity at least 4 months after acute infection. Notably, these responses were largely similar or superior to those observed in adults with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection who did not require hospitalization. Our findings suggest that children and adolescents develop effective humoral immune responses irrespective of illness severity that are likely to provide protection against reinfection, 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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255479: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Paradoxically, globalization hampered LMICs for accessing molecular detection solutions, yet unlocked the access to information for driving local efforts to deal with the global market limitations. The latter is further evidenced by several and remarkable open access initiatives like BEARmix (Graham et al., 2021), Addgene (https://www.addgene.org/), BEI Resources (https://www.beiresources.org/), Nextstrain (https://nextstrain.org/), and GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/). The work presented here was fully performed in a LMIC laboratory and used all available open access resources to implement a molecular toolkit aiming to provide versatile solutions for LMICs, and to cope with the international shortage of testing supplies for SARS-CoV-2 or any other pathogenic agent. The molecular toolkit validated here shows high versatility to be adapted to different contexts by exploiting widely accepted and known PCR-based methods (Figure 4A). The initial stage focused on providing a minimal set of essential recombinant enzymes that allows the amplification and visualization of viral genes in laboratories with minimal equipment. The open access BEARmix initiative was particularly important as they kindly provided plasmids, protocols, and initial conditions along their development and prior to any publication (Graham et al., 2021). Yet, some routines of the protein production workflow needed to be adapted due to equipment availability. For instance, enzyme production can be achieved to high...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.21255636

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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:
  This study is subject to several limitations. First, our analysis was limited to Switzerland. While the overall course of the epidemic in Switzerland is characterized by a similar variability seen in many European countries, a future comparison with other countries could be especially valuable to investigate country-specific differences in mobility behaviour. Second, we used mobility data only from a sample of the population in Switzerland, which was however selected to be representative by age, gender, and region. Third, in our study, mobility was measured via the daily travel distance. Other studies have analysed mobility in the first wave using alternative metrics such as the radius of gyration or trip counts,[2] which may have different interpretations. However, as our model measures changes in mobility on a relative scale, we expect our results not to be highly sensitive to the choice of metric. In our models, both the mobility variables and the time-varying effective reproduction number Rt were smoothed with a 3-day moving average. Our estimates are therefore with respect to smoothed mobility and Rt. We further acknowledge that the estimation of Rt can entail considerable uncertainty, especially when the number of reported cases is low. We addressed this limitation by selecting only study periods with a substantial proportion of infectious persons and thus comparatively small uncertainty. To capture structural changes in transmission aside from mobility, we fitted separ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255457: (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 included patients were registered in the registry ‘Ocular inflammation, METC 17‐363’, that contains a written informed consent for the use of data.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 mean difference can be interpreted as the systematic difference between the assessments (bias) and the 95%LoA as the range within 95% of the differences between one assessment and the other are included (random error).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The health care providers were blinded for the previous web‐based test results of the subjects.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 limitation of the study design was that only patients were included who were willing to participate, and who were able to successfully complete the web‐based eye exam in their home environment. The study design induced a participation bias of digitally competent patients, often of a younger age, which might affect the generalizability of the study outcomes. Diagnostic accuracy might be poorer in less digitally competent patients, as remote exams might be performed incorrectly. However, it is important to bear in mind that our inclusion criterion of successful completion of the web‐based eye exam does not imply adequate performance. In other words: a patient can ‘finish’ an exam (at home) without conducting it correctly. In this study, these patients were included in our analyses as well, as information of outliers is important for interpreting the measurement accuracy and identifying patient characteristics that relate to bad performance. Another possible limitation of the design is the interval between the two assessments. Ideally, two compared VA assessments should be conducted within a time interval as short as possible, to prevent clinical changes to impact observed differences. We consider the mean interval in our interval to be fairly short (mean 5 days ± 3 days). In addition, patients were instructed to redo the web‐based exam or contact the research team if they experienced a change in visual acuity between performing the web‐based eye exam and their hospital appoin...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.19.21255730

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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 Ethical Committee of the leading centre (Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna) and carried out in the participating centres according to local 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">All patients were included in the study regardless of the 30-day outcome (discharge, still in the hospital or death) and all data were extracted directly from the charts, validated by trained specialist physicians in the participating centres, and entered in REDCap software (Research Electronic Data Capture).</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></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 had some limitations. First, it did not represent the overall population of patients affected by colorectal cancer who had received treatment in Northern Italy during the study period since only 20 hospitals were included in the study. Second, it could have underestimated the rate of patients who were diagnosed with metastatic disease and who were referred to the oncology rather than the surgical service. Third, its retrospective nature did not allow analysing whether the COVID-19 outbreak affected the time between the onset of symptoms and the referral to surgery. Finally, the short time range of the study might have prevented the observation of significantly more advanced cancer. However, to date, this is the only study comparing patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in one of the countries which suffered the most in terms of infected patients and mortality during 2020. Although no gross variation in the oncologic stage was observed, the study reported worrisome evidence regarding an increased risk of advanced colorectal cancer in patients who were diagnosed in 2020 in terms of associated symptoms, cancer location, clinical T4 stage, and number of liver metastases. In spite of the fact that SARS-CoV-2 vaccine campaigns are being carried out in many countries, no global response have been proposed, and the pandemic is far from being resolved.30 In particular, the risk of significant virus mutations makes t...
  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">NCT04712292</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">Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Diagnosis and Outcomes 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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255490: (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).<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">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 – December 2020 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. Furthermore, as a result of the fact that this study was conducted as a voluntary online survey, we cannot confirm all responses were by expectant parents or exclude bias in respondents with either positive or negative experience of their pregnancy. Whilst we advertised this study nationally, the majority of participants were White; therefore, the results cannot be generalised to a more ethnically diverse population. However, 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 longitudinally. Another limitation is that of the six questions posed not every participant gave a response to each one. Finally, from a qualitative perspective, due to the online survey nature of the project, it was not possible to probe and question further by means of interviews to further elucidate the links between perceived lack of support and anxiety. Conclusions: Changes to antenatal support and healthcare appointments in response to governmental guidance with regard to social distancing has had an adverse effect on the experiences of many pregnant women in the UK, with ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255448: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from each respondent.<br>IRB: The ethics committees/institutional review boards of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan approved this study and the consent procedure.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Each dimension was treated as a dependent variable for multivariate analysis to examine the difference between men and 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">Respondent was randomly selected by methods of clustering and systematic sampling.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 findings of this study should be considered in the context of certain limitations. First, the study population only included participants from Taiwan, and the findings may not be generalizable to other populations. However, the three stage random sampling procedures, face-to-face interviews and validation of TSCS provided a valuable insight into the whole population residing in Taiwan.36 Second, the measurement of household members relied on participants’ characteristics and the questionnaire did not measure the relationship between gender and family, such as by asking men and women separately about whether they felt worried about the effect of pandemic on their household members.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255781

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.20.21255781: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants (18 years or older and currently living in the KSA).<br>IRB: Ethical Considerations: Ethical approval was granted for the study by the institutional Research Ethics Committee (SEUREC-CHS20110) Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and consent was taken before participation in the study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gender was reported in two categories: male and 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">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 was estimated to be 637.</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">STATA 15.0 software (StataCorp LP, Texas, USA) was used for all statistical analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></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 this study includes sampling strategy, we used a snowball sampling which may have been overestimated due to selection bias. Secondly, we did not account some psychological factors which may influence the acceptance of vaccination. Despite these limitations, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to report the current COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in the country while there is a vaccine is available and the second wave of pandemic devastating the community.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255556: (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: Measures: After providing informed consent, participants completed a wide range of questions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right: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 2,120 individuals, all US residents, completed this survey (1,031 women, 1,074 men, 15 no response; Mage = 40.39, SDage = 15.34).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">” Participants were then randomly assigned to one of four subsets of the remaining predictor variables, which were grouped according to theoretical and empirical relatedness.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.13.21255439

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255439: (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 Approvals: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and received approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at CHOP.<br>Consent: Verbal consent for this minimal risk study was obtained from patients 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">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 assay validation data are available on the Olink website (www.olink.com). sC5b9 ELISA Assay: sC5b9 levels were determined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA; Cat. #558315; BD Biosciences, San Jose CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cat.</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All analysis was performed in FlowJo (Treestar, version 10.6.2).</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">General statistical methods: All statistical analyses were performed in R (version 4.0.4) using RStudio (RStudio, PBC, Boston, MA).</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 factoextra package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/factoextra/index.html) was used to extract and visualize PCA elements.</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">We used the KEGG pathway database (https://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html) which includes a manual collection of pathway maps examining a total of 777,729 molecular pathways, with 544 main pathways included.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  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.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255436: (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.
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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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255438: (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">Using the DrugCentral resource22, we developed the following list of representative indications: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, angina pectoris, migraine, myocardial infarction, pain, headache, and fever (OMOP concept id codes in Supplemental Table S2).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DrugCentral</div><div>suggested: (DrugCentral, RRID:SCR_015663)</div></div></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:
  Strengths and limitations of this study: Observational studies such as retrospective EHR cohort analysis are subject to confounding. In the case of our study, the decision of whether to treat a patient with a COX inhibitor could in principle be correlated with the outcome of interest (COVID-19 severity). We applied two strategies to mitigate confounding: (i) analysis of subcohorts according to indication, and (ii) propensity matching. However, in observational studies a risk of residual confounding persists because the efficacy of propensity matching is limited to known and measured factors. Exposure to the drugs of interest, most of which are available without a prescription, was likely to be captured incompletely in the EHR data used in the analysis. Thus, it is possible that there was unrecorded use of COX inhibitors in the untreated group. Our study uses a five-level ordinal measure of COVID-19 outcome that may allow increased sensitivity compared with some previous efforts that use only COVID-19 mortality to measure outcome.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255442: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: The present article is part of a series of studies conducted under the CORoNaWork (Collaborative Online Research on the Novel-coronavirus and Work) Project.20 This study was conducted during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, when the number of infected people and deaths peaked.<br>Consent: The participants provided informed consent prior to beginning the online questionnaire.<br>IRB: The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and it was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (Approval number: R2-079).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 used Stata/SE 16.1 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA) for all analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitation of this study is that we recruited study participants from an Internet research company’s list of panelists. A previous study on the anti-vaccine movement reported that anti-vaccine messages were more prevalent on the Internet than in other sources.36 Therefore, the participants in the current study may have been particularly likely to access anti-vaccine websites, and this should be taken into account when interpreting the results of our study. Additionally, we conducted the current study before the administration of the COVID-19 vaccination program in Japan; therefore, we could not provide participants with detailed information, such as the vaccination schedule, which may have affected their willingness to get the vaccine. In conclusion, the current study revealed a gender gap in the associations of age and education level with willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In particular, women aged 30–49 years and those with a higher level of education were less willing to get the vaccine. These findings may imply the need for intervention for this population regarding COVID-19 vaccination. Providing education about COVID-19 and influenza vaccination in the workplace may be an effective strategy to increase COVID-19 vaccine 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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255399: (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>
  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 neutralizing antibody assay: Serially diluted plasma samples were mixed with diluted (approximately 6 PFU/cm2) SARS-CoV-2 (2019n-CoV/USA_WA1/2020) in EMEM supplemented with 5% FBS, 100 U/mL penicillin, 100 µg/mL streptomycin, and 2 mM GlutaMax.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus was adsorbed for 1 hr, the inoculum was removed, cells were rinsed once with serum-free DMEM and then 4 ml of hybridoma supernatant containing the I1 monoclonal antibody24 was added for 30 minutes to neutralize residual VSV-ΔG pseudotyped virus from the inoculum and then replaced with DMEM containing 20% fetal bovine serum.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody24</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">Tissue culture: VeroE6 cells stably expressing TMPRSS2 (Vero-TMPRSS2) (XenoTech) were cultured in Eagle’s Minimal Essential Medium (EMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 100 U/mL penicillin, 100 µg/mL streptomycin, and 2 mM GlutaMax (Gibco).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After the incubation period, culture medium was removed from Vero-TMPRSS2 cells and virus/plasma mixture was added to the cells in triplicate.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells in 10 cm dishes were transfected using Lipofectamine 2000 according to the manufacturer’s instructions with 24 μg of a plasmid encoding a codon-optimized cDNA for the SARS-CoV-2 spike15, which was generously provided by Florian Krammer.</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><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">AUC and ND50 values for the different assays were compared by mixed-effects model with the Geisser-Greenhouse correction and Tukey multiple comparisons post-test and p-value adjustment in GraphPad Prism (version 9.0.0).</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: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255494: (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: Sample Collection: The study was conducted at the Life Science Testing Center (LSTC; Burlington, MA, USA) for Northeastern University (NEU) students, faculty, and staff within the United States Northeast (MA, ME) regional campuses.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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:
  Multiplex RT-qPCR has been sought to increase assay sensitivity for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, yet inherent limitations arise from increased competition in reaction kinetics [21]. The genomic architecture of SARS-CoV-2 exhibits extensive secondary structure with regions consisting of high base pairing content thought to be mechanistically advantageous for the transcription and thermodynamic stability of sub-genomic RNA [22]. Further consideration that retro-transcription occurs from the 3’ direction suggests cDNA production from the N gene with less deviation than the S and ORF1ab genes. Concurrent with our results, the N gene demonstrated the greatest stability within the negative sample matrix, which was confirmed by a limit of detection 1 and 3 orders of magnitude less than the ORF1ab and S genes, respectively. Recent identification of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC) 202012/01 has been associated with several mutations in the S gene including a deletion at position 69 and 70 to cause S-gene target failure by the TaqPath COVID-19 method [23]. Due to the enhanced binding interactions of VOC 202012/01 spike protein with the target angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2), estimates suggest the increased transmissibility will permit strain predominance in the United States by spring 2021 [24]. While no genomic sequence data was available for the samples used in this study, it is important to consider the international nature of the university population as many Northeas...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255427: (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">At the ACH and the LTCF, for both random and controlled sampling, dedicated COVID-19 units were used as ‘positive control wards’, and wards which had zero COVID-19 patients identified were uses as ‘negative control wards’.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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, safety concerns and the lack of a BSL-3 level resources precluded the use of viral cultures to determine viability of virus, but nucleic acid of target pathogens can be consequential [19]. Furthermore, lack of culture-based assessments is not unique to our study [4-9]. Second, sponge sticks may be better at capturing pathogens from larger environmental surfaces such as floors and tray tables. These collection devices were unavailable and could not be used in automated PCR reaction tubes. Third, the commercial remediation service and EVS were not compared under identical conditions, but our main objective was not a direct head-to-head comparison of EVS vs contracted remediation service. Despite these limitations, this report is relevant to nursing homes and hospitals as the findings can assist in allocation of scarce cleaning and disinfection resources for maximum impact. Furthermore, studies of the survivability of the virus on fomites have been criticized as lacking real-life generalizability [22, 23]. Data in this report were obtained from a ‘typical’ general hospital and nursing home, representative of the type of settings (i.e. general/community/non-university-based hospitals) where much of health care is delivered. Studies for these settings may be underrepresented in research because most are carried out in large university-based hospitals. In summary, surface contamination with SARS-CoV-2 RNA significantly differed based on typ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255415: (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: When HCWs agreed to take part in the study, they were asked to sign a consent form.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Over half of the sample was female, with the majority of participants in middle or senior management positions.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">These codes were inputted into a Microsoft Excel matrix, with the emerging codes in the columns and interviews entered as individual cases in the rows.</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:
  Implications for policy and practice: Study limitations: The findings offered in this paper should be viewed in light the limitations of the study. First, although data were collected during the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic from a range of staff involved in delivery of surgical services, our respondent pool was mostly comprised of senior staff and was not ethnically diverse. The experiences of more junior staff may have shed light on different issues. Moreover, we only recruited staff from NHS hospitals in London, excluding private hospitals that took on additional NHS surgical work. Despite these limitations we maintain that the overall lessons taken from the case study provide useful insights into sustainable MSC that can be applied throughout the UK and across other nations with a comparable health care system. Their relevance will be amplified by further research exploring how healthcare service delivery has changed in subsequent waves of the pandemic and in other countries. Moreover, it will be important to examine the sustainability of changes over time to see if those that were identified as positive remain in place.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
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  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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255507: (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">Google has released data on daily mobility score changes reflecting the effects of social distancing and local lockdown measures, as well as school and business status.</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">Model selection and hyperparameter tuning: Hyperparameter tuning for the Seq2Seq model was carried out using the Keras API (version 2.3.1), the TensorFlow library (version 1.14.0) and HyperOpt (Bergstra, Yamins et al. 2013).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TensorFlow</div><div>suggested: (tensorflow, RRID:SCR_016345)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  One important limitation to consider when interpretating the forecasting results is that the attempt to calculate pandemic projections, such as ours and others, was based upon only the observation of emergent cases. However, case reporting is not uniform across entities. In the US, much of the information about cases is collected and collated at the level of the county or large municipalities, which then report to a state department of health, and which in turn report to national repositories. One entity may put a strong emphasis on testing individuals who present with symptoms, whereas another may have implemented a widespread asymptomatic surveillance policy. How and which cases are identified can be dramatically affected by such policy differences and testing strategies, which were largely influenced by non-objective policy decisions and human interpretation during the course of the pandemic. In short, our machine learning model, as well as most other forecasting models of COVID-19, only learns to predict the reported cases (or deaths and other indices), which were likely biased with non-objective influences that were not uniform across reporting entities. Since January 4, 2021, we have updated our forecast of deaths and R numbers in our Github repository each Monday (https://ylzhang29.github.io/UpstateSU-GRU-Covid/). Visualization of several useful metrics that are derived from our forecasts are provided on the GitHub page to facilitate understanding. These visualizations...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There are certain limitations of the present study. The GWAS study was not directly conducted in the individuals of the Indian sub-populations, and the PRSs were based on effect sizes from different ancestral groups with COVID-19 infection. The mortality may also be affected by comorbidities like age, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases16–18 and environmental risk factors that can act as confounders. Further, the current study does not model the effect of confounders such as population density that could also affect the COVID-19 spread and mortality. Smaller populations might have less exposure to the virus, and therefore can display low mortality despite carrying a high PRS. For instance, IEELP4 population (Kandhamal district, population size and density of 7.3 lakhs and 90/km2 respectively) has a high PRS but the number of deaths in this district is low, compared to other larger populations (with population size of 10-40 lakhs) with high PRS. Moreover, considering the districts having a similar population size and density (i.e. by removing the outliers), the correlation improved, although not significantly (R=0.43, p=0.092), suggesting that population density could act as a confounding factor. Also, a similar trend was observed in the number of cases over several months in the populations, suggesting that there could be a genetic basis for this trend (Supplementary Fig. S3). The prediction accuracy can be improved by using sequencing data and since IGVC is array...
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  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255382: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We analyzed with R version 3.6.3 [11] with the packages ggplot2, mgcv, and stanarm.</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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255404: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sequences were aligned using MAFFT [34], and a maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree was constructed using IQ-TREE [39] under Hasegawa-Kishino-Yano (HKY)+Γ nucleotide substitution model with a gamma-distributed site rate variation [30].</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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This trait inference algorithm has been implemented in Matlab (v. R2019b).</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">At first, temporal signal was evaluated by constructing an ML phylogeny under HKY+Γ nucleotide substitution model and by regressing root-to-tip genetic divergence against sampling dates using TempEst (v.1.5.3) [43].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TempEst</div><div>suggested: (TempEst, RRID:SCR_017304)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The MCMC sampling quality was assessed using Tracer (v.1.7.1) [41] and accepted if all parameters had effective sampling sizes (ESS) higher than 200.</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">In the first approach, trees and BDSKY parameters sampled by BEAST were used to reconstruct cumulative case count trajectories using the particle filter algorithm implemented in EpiInf (v.7.3.0) [51].</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>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  It is important to highlight that the presented study has several limitations. The first of them is the scarcity of currently available genomic data, especially in comparison with most of other European countries. Our approach strives to compensates for it by utilizing informative priors and linked models for phylogenetic and phylodynamics inference. BD-SKY models are also sensitive enough and suitable for inference even for smaller genomic datasets. For example, the numbers of sequences and/or density of branching events in this study is similar to those in other studies [49, 38, 26], where meaningful estimates of ℛe have been produced for several epidemics, including SARS-CoV-2. Nevertheless, the inference precision could have been higher, if more SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been available. For Belarus, however, significant expansion of the available genomic dataset in the near future is unlikely, and in our opinion the lack of other studies justifies the need to fill the knowledge gap and to report the results based on the existing data. We also hope that this study will serve as a trigger for further SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology studies in Belarus and will encourage funding increase and the corresponding development and expansion of sequencing facilities for molecular surveillance. The second limitation is that phylogeographic inference of introduction sources can be sensitive to sampling bias and can be affected by relatively slow accumulation of mutations in SARS-CoV-2 g...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <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 visualisation and statistics: Statistical tests, including normality tests, were performed as indicated using Graphpad Prism v9 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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 24. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">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: The causality of the identified co-variates could not be determined as data regarding COVID negative contacts were not available.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: We obtained written, informed consent from all study participants.<br>IRB: The Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences Research Ethics Committee reviewed the protocol and deemed the work exempt from ethical approval.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right: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 collection: Semi-structured interviews were conducted via videoconference between September and November 2020 by an experienced male qualitative researcher (PK) and three researchers (one male, two females) with training in qualitative methods (TH, YY, JA).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: A strength was the qualitative methods we used. They allowed us to explore the views and experiences of general practice staff in an in-depth and descriptive manner. The topic guide was piloted with two GPs who were not participants in the study, with minimal changes recommended. Although the sample size was small, we achieved information saturation appropriate to a qualitative study design when no new themes were discovered during the interviews [22]. Concurrent thematic analysis ensured that data saturation occurred before data collection was complete. A limitation is that we included general practices from only three regions of England, which may not have captured the variation in clinical practice and might therefore limit the generalisability of findings. The interview participants did not include any nurses and HCAs, who are likely to have play a central part of POC use in primary care. Lastly, the interviews occurred between the 25th of September 2020 and the 27th of October when the COVID-19 situation in the UK was changing rapidly, immediately prior to the second national lockdown in November 2020. It is possible participants priorities may have changed subsequently.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the University of Minnesota Institutional Review Board.<br>Consent: All participants 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><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">Round 2 added a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid spot, comprising amino acids 1-419, 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><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: ‘Recent infection’ with SARS-CoV-2 was defined as a positive result from the round 1 (all round 1 assays were performed prior to vaccination) spike-only assay, or a self-report of recent infection; we consider this to be the definition of ‘true-infection’ (hereafter referred to as ‘infected’ or ‘infection’).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statistical Analysis</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:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 collected serum samples from each participant and quantified SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD antibodies by ELISAs within 36-48 hours after sample collection.<br>Consent: Informed consent was collected from all participants prior to the baseline visit.<br>IRB: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Pennsylvania under IRB #842847.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">We collected NP swabs from all health care workers who possessed SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD IgG and/or IgM antibodies and we completed SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing on these samples to identify active or recent infections.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA): ELISAs measuring antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and against OC43, HKU1, 229E and NL63 were completed as previously described (13).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OC43</div><div>suggested: (Virostat Cat# 3879, RRID:AB_2889994)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HKU1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 2 hours of incubation, plates were washed with PBS-T and 50 μL of 1:5,000 diluted goat anti-human IgG-HRP (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories) or 1:1,000 diluted goat anti-human IgM-HRP (SouthernBiotech) was added to each well.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG-HRP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plasmids to express the CR3022 monoclonal antibody were provided by Ian Wilson (Scripps).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CR3022</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD antibody concentrations below this cutoff at 0.48 arbitrary units/mL were assigned a value of 0.40 arbitrary units/mL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 S-RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 S-FL and S-RBD were produced in 293F cells and purified using Ni-NTA (Qiagen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><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">Prism version 9 (GraphPad) and R version 3.5.3 were used for analyses.</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:
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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">All randomized trials, comparative studies and observational studies, published as full text in English were included, while editorials, conference abstracts, animal studies, case reports, articles not written in English language or not providing full text were excluded.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 was conducted on December 28, 2020 and repeated on January 22, 2021 by two independent authors (E.K. and E.J.G.B) across MEDLINE (PubMed), Cochrane, medRxiv.org, biorxiv.org and clinicaltrials.gov databases using the following terms: “COVID-19” or “SARS-CoV-2” and “anakinra”, “interleukin-1”, “interleukin blockade”.</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">All statistical analyses were done using SPSS (version 23) and Review Manager (version 5.3).</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:
  Although the design clearly has its limitations, as general care for COVID-19 patients improved over time, possibly regardless of the anakinra treatment, the observed magnitude of protective effect of anakinra was convincing enough to continue with additional studies that globally supported a positive effect of anakinra in severe forms of COVID-19. The open-label single-arm phase II prospective SAVE trial concluded not only that suPAR-guided anakinra treatment prevented onset of respiratory failure necessitating mechanical ventilation but also reduced both short (30-day)- and long (90-day)-mortality compared with standard-of-care alone (28). suPAR is an early predictor of some of the most critical COVID-19 outcomes, including respiratory failure, kidney failure and mortality (31,32). The only randomized controlled trial published so far was initiated by the French consortium CORIMUNO, but was prematurely interrupted following enrolment of 59 anakinra and 55 usual care patients because of assumed futility (23). The results from the CORIMUNO-ANA-1 study suggest that anakinra was not effective in reducing the need for non-invasive or mechanical ventilation or death in patients with COVID-19 and mild-to-moderate pneumonia. However, in the CORIMUNO-ANA-1 study, the day-14 mortality was 15% in the anakinra group compared to 24% in the usual care group and the WHO Clinical Progression Scale (CPS) was also suggestive for a beneficial effect of anakinra at day 14. Unfortunately, stopp...
  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">NCT04680949</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">suPAR-Guided Anakinra Treatment for Management of Severe Res…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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:
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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 prior to the study.<br>IRB: H7886) Human Research Ethics Committees.<br>IACUC: Animal studies and related experimental procedures were approved by the University of Melbourne Animal Ethics Committee (no. 1714193, no. 1914874).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 nitrocellulose membrane strip has three stripes, the first of which is a recombinant chimeric protein consisting of the extracellular domain of human ACE2 fused to human-IgG1-Fc domain line (test line 1), a control/reference line (Ref Line) coated with anti-chicken IgY antibody and a total anti-RBD antibody line (test Line 2) coated with recombinant RBD protein.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human-IgG1-Fc domain line ( test line 1)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RBD</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 RBD antibodies, if present in the specimen, will bind to the RBD-biotin-Au conjugates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">If no antibody is present, or if the antibodies bind to RBD protein but without capacity to interfere with ACE2 binding (i.e., lack of neutralization), then the maximum amount of RBD-gold will bind to the ACE2 line (test line 1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In either case, as the sample continues to flow, the chicken IgY-gold will bind to the anti-chicken IgY line (control/reference line), and next, additional SARS-CoV-2 conjugate will flow to test line 2, where binding of antibody-antigen complexes to the same or related antigen on the test strip will indicate the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 that may or may not be neutralizing because ACE2 is not involved in this interaction.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-chicken IgY</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">Residual virus infectivity in the plasma/virus mixtures was assessed in quadruplicate wells of Vero cells incubated in serum-free media containing 1 μg/ml of Tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone (TPCK) trypsin at 37C and 5% CO2; viral cytopathic effect was read on day 5.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The neutralizing antibody titre was calculated using the Reed–Muench method, as previously described35 Statistics: Regression lines fitted in GraphPad Prism 9.0 using a semi-log non-linear fit, plotted with 95% CI bands.</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:
  A rapid (20 minute) test using fingerprick whole blood overcomes limitations associated with current tests, requiring venous blood draw and laboratory equipment with results taking a minimum of three hours. Portable strip-reading instruments such as the Axxin AX-2S used here are commercially available and can be deployed in non-laboratory locations such as airports and aged care or educational facilities, and the use of dedicated readers (and potentially even smartphone Apps) can provide a quantitative assessment of neutralising antibody levels. Even in the absence of a dedicated instrument, a semi-quantitative assessment by eye, visually comparing the intensity of the test line to the reference line, should provide sufficient information on whether an individual has an acceptable level of immunity, using the same principle used to determine CD4 T-cell levels in the semi-quantitative VISITECT® CD4 tests20. An additional risk that threatens to reduce the durability of immune protection is posed by the emergence of mutant strains of SARS-CoV-2, including the B.1.1.7 lineage (also known as the UK variant), the B.1.351 lineage (South Africa variant) and B.1.1.28 lineage (Brazil) that are considered to be variants of concern (VOCs). Each of these VOCs are more infectious, and potentially induce more severe disease. While they carry mutations throughout various viral proteins, the key mutations appear to be those in the RBD region (N501Y in B.1.1.7; N501Y, E484K and K417N in B.1.35...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Number of cells highly infected (strong N staining) was counted in 12 random fields (magnification 20x) and % of cells expressing stress granule (G3BP1) signals in these were calculated.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Virus was detected using primary monoclonal rabbit antibodies directed against SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (Sino Biological Inc., 40143-R001), and secondary anti-rabbit HRP conjugated antibodies (1:2000, Thermo Fisher Scientific).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid ( Sino Biological Inc . , 40143-R001) ,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit HRP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibodies: The following antibodies were used at the indicated dilutions: c-Myc (1:1000, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, sc-40), rabbit anti-G3BP1 (WB; 1:1000</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>c-Myc</div><div>suggested: (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Cat# sc-40 AC, RRID:AB_2857941)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WB</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">mouse APC-conjugated antibody directed against dsRNA J2 (IF 1:200, Scicons, 10010500) mouse anti-3xFlag M2 (WB 1:25000, Sigma,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-3xFlag</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">F1804), rabbit anti-Tubulin (WB 1:4000, Abcam, ab6046)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Tubulin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">donkey anti-rabbit IgG (Invitrogen), goat anti-rabbit HRP conjugated antibody (WB 1:2000 or 1:5000, Thermo Fisher Scientific, 31460)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>donkey anti-rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# 31460, RRID:AB_228341)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">goat anti-mouse HRP conjugated antibody (WB 1:5000, Thermo Fisher Scientific, 31430)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>goat anti-mouse HRP</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# 31430, RRID:AB_228307)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse HRP</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# 31430, RRID:AB_228307)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Thereafter, cells are incubated with primary antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid ((1:500) Sino Biological Inc., 40143-R001) and G3BP1 ((1:500</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>G3BP1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">) Abcam, ab56574) followed by incubation with conjugated secondary antibodies anti-rabbit Alexa555 and anti-mouse Alexa488 (1:500, Thermo Fisher Scientific).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse</div><div>suggested: (Bioss Cat# bsm-4579M-Alexa488, RRID:AB_11071160)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Proteins were separated with SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis was performed using antibodies against SARS CoV-2 nucleocapsid, 3xFlag M2 (Sigma, F1804) and tubulin (Abcam, ab6046)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibodies against SARS CoV-2 nucleocapsid ,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>F1804</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# F1804, RRID:AB_262044)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>tubulin ( Abcam ,</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab106042, RRID:AB_10898490)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell culture, virus and reagents: HeLa and HEK293 cells were maintained in DMEM GlutaMAX containing 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 mg/ml streptomycin, and 10% FCS (all from Thermo Fisher Scientific)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lentivirus production, transductions and virus infection: Lenti-X 293T cells (Takara bio) grown in a 100 mm plate format were co-transfected with 4.5 μg psPAX2 (Didier Trono lab, Addgene plasmid #12260), 500 ng pMD2.</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">For transductions VeroE6 or HEK cells were seeded into greiner CELLSTAR® 96-well plates or 6-well plates (VWR) containing lentivirus in DMEM containing 2 % FBS and 1 μg/mL polybrene, and incubated for 72 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Immunoprecipitation of SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV2/MERS-CoV N proteins: Two 15 cm3 dishes were seeded with HeLa cells at 20% confluency.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">VeroE6 cells were seeded in 8-well chamber slides (Sarstedts) and infected with SARS CoV-2 for 6 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Envelope 3xFlag (pGBW-m4252867 was a gift from Ginkgo Bioworks & Benjie Chen (Addgene plasmid # 153626; http://n2t.net/addgene:153626; RRID: Addgene_153626) and pcDNA5/FRT/TO Myc SARS CoV2 N and N 2A was transfected into HEK293T cells using GeneJuice (Novagen, Darmstadt, Germany) following the manufacturer’s protocol (12 μg of DNA/sample in total).</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 the YFP-G3BPi inhibitor, the double FGDF motif from Semliki Forest virus nsP3 (RTTFRNKLPFTFGDFDEHEVDALASGITFGDFDDVL) or a control inhibitor (RTTFRNKLPATAGDFDEHEVDALASGITAGDADDVL) were fused to the C terminus of YFP by cloning the DNA encoding this into the pcDNA5/FRT/TO vector (Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pcDNA5/FRT/TO</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_19445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lentivirus production, transductions and virus infection: Lenti-X 293T cells (Takara bio) grown in a 100 mm plate format were co-transfected with 4.5 μg psPAX2 (Didier Trono lab, Addgene plasmid #12260), 500 ng pMD2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>psPAX2</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_12260)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMD2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To generate transfer plasmids, four copies of inhibitory peptide (three copies for the Semilikiforest peptide) or control peptides with the binding motifs mutated were fused to C terminus of EGFP and cloned to pLJM1-EGFP vector (David Sabatini lab, Addgene plasmid #19319).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pLJM1-EGFP</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_19319)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Assembly assay: pcDNA3.1 expression plasmids coding for the structural proteins of SARS CoV-2, Spike (S D614), Membrane (M) (was a gift from Jeremy Luban</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">Envelope 3xFlag (pGBW-m4252867 was a gift from Ginkgo Bioworks & Benjie Chen (Addgene plasmid # 153626; http://n2t.net/addgene:153626; RRID: Addgene_153626) and pcDNA5/FRT/TO Myc SARS CoV2 N and N 2A was transfected into HEK293T cells using GeneJuice (Novagen, Darmstadt, Germany) following the manufacturer’s protocol (12 μg of DNA/sample in total).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pGBW-m4252867</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 sample was analyzed using Illumina MiSeq v3 run, 1×150bp read setup, 20% PhiX by the NGS-NGI SciLifeLab facility.</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">Results were processed using in-house custom Python scripts described previsouly22.</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">To assess the quality of RiboVD library we analyzed the coverage percentage of the phage library over the library design using the NGS results of non-challenged naive library phage aliquotes. 95.50% of the peptide sequences designed to be in the library were confirmed by the NGS analysis of the naïve phage library.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NGS</div><div>suggested: (PM4NGS, RRID:SCR_019164)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The peptide data was combined with available information on SG localized proteins from mass spectroscopy of purified mammalian stress granules27, 52, 59 and from other studies based on the information listed in the HIPPIE database.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HIPPIE</div><div>suggested: (HIPPIE, RRID:SCR_014651)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Peptides were from GeneCust (France) with a purity of over 95%.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GeneCust</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Bioinformatic analysis: Proteomics data analysis was performed with Perseus65 and within the R environment (https://www.r-project.org/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://www.r-project.org/</div><div>suggested: (R Project for Statistical Computing, RRID:SCR_001905)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MaxQuant output tables were filtered for ‘Reverse’, ‘Only identified by site modification’, and ‘Potential contaminants’ before data analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MaxQuant</div><div>suggested: (MaxQuant, RRID:SCR_014485)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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:
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  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 10.1101/2021.04.18.21255688: (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">Furthermore, 40 swab samples taken from various healthy persons every second day and intermittently positive controls were measured to see whether randomly taken specimens give false-positive results.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Finally, cell culture supernatants of a reference strain (SARS-CoV-2/Italy-INMI1, kindly provided by Antonino DiCaro via the GHSAG network), the B.1.1.7 variant (Robert Koch Institute [RKI] isolate), the B.1.351 SA variant (kindly provided by Thorsten Wolff, RKI) and the Brazil TY7-503 variant of the P.1 lineage (hCoV-19/Japan/TY7-503/2021, kindly provided by Takaji Wakita, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan, via the GHSAG network) grown in Vero E6 cells were used to test whether the ID NOW COVID-19 test detects these variants with a similar sensitivity as that for the SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating during the first months of the pandemic.</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">Finally, cell culture supernatants of a reference strain (SARS-CoV-2/Italy-INMI1, kindly provided by Antonino DiCaro via the GHSAG network), the B.1.1.7 variant (Robert Koch Institute [RKI] isolate), the B.1.351 SA variant (kindly provided by Thorsten Wolff, RKI) and the Brazil TY7-503 variant of the P.1 lineage (hCoV-19/Japan/TY7-503/2021, kindly provided by Takaji Wakita, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan, via the GHSAG network) grown in Vero E6 cells were used to test whether the ID NOW COVID-19 test detects these variants with a similar sensitivity as that for the SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating during the first months of the pandemic.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>hCoV-19/Japan/TY7-503/2021</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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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255533: (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: After getting informed consent from the participants nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) were collected from the study participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SPSS statistical software was used for all statistical analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.13.21255445

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255445: (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 Institutional Review Boards of Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.<br>Consent: A waiver of consent was obtained by both institutions.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">The researchers were blinded to patient outcomes when interpreting the images.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analysis: Our calculated sample size for this study was 94 patients based on reasonable assumptions (15% event rate, 80% power, alpha 0.05).</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 to this study. Certain patient conditions, such as intubation or patient mobility, prevented the provider from acquiring all 12 zones, particularly the posterior zones. Therefore, not all patients received a 12-zone scan, which limits the generalizability of the findings’ frequencies by location. Patients were scanned based on provider discretion, but it is possible that patients with certain features on X-ray or CT were more likely to receive a LUS. We did not control for patient health conditions that may have confounded the sonographic findings (e.g. interstitial lung disease), although these diseases had low prevalence in our population (Table 1). Finally, our population included only patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Therefore, our findings may not be generalizable to outpatient or triage settings, although other studies have examined the utility of POCUS in these venues.2,7,19 In conclusion, POCUS may provide expedient risk stratification for patients hospitalized with COVID-19, and it may have similar utility as other scoring systems that utilize radiographical or laboratory markers. Several POCUS findings, including B-lines and consolidations, were predictive of ICU admission, intubation, subsequent supplemental oxygen usage, or the need for oxygen on discharge. The predictive utility of these findings was also present when we limited our analysis to scans collected within 24 hours of admission. Importantly, a normal lung ultrasound was...
  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">NCT04384055</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enrolling by invitation</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Predicting Outcomes for Covid-19 Using Sonography</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.12.21255329: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Field Sample Permit: The protocol for this study was registered in the Open Science Framework.[19] Data Source and Search Strategy: We sampled studies from the Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register (https://covid-19.cochrane.org/), a freely-available, continually-updated, annotated reference collection of human primary studies on COVID-19, including interventional, observational,</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 extracted the text relevant to each discrepancy: Spin: Studies have used a variety of methods to measure spin in randomized controlled trials and observational 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 Cochrane register prioritizes medRxiv as a preprint source as an internal sensitivity analysis in May 2020 showed that 90% (166/185) of the preprints that were eligible for systematic reviews came from this source.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane register</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The register also includes preprints records sourced from PubMed.</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">All extracted data from the included studies was stored in REDCap, a secure web-based application for the collection and management of data.[20] We extracted data from the medRxiv page and PDF for preprints and the online publication or PDF for journal articles.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Journal publications also included more tables and figures, and more extensive discussion of limitations. Some of these differences may be due to more comprehensive reporting requirements of journals. Other changes, such as more information on the study population or greater discussion of limitations, may be due to requests for additional information during peer review. Since preprints are posted without peer review and most journal publications in our sample were likely to be peer reviewed because they were identified from PubMed, our study indirectly investigates the impact of peer review on research articles. Articles may not have been peer-reviewed in similar ways. Authors may have made changes in their papers that were independent of peer review. We observed instances where peer review appeared to improve clarity (e.g, more detail on measurements)[32,33] or interpretation (e.g. requirement to present risk differences rather than just n (%) per treatment group).[34,35] Empirical evidence on the impact of peer review on manuscript quality is scarce. A study comparing submitted and published manuscripts found that the number of changes was relatively small and, similar to our study, primarily involved adding or clarifying information.[13] Some of the changes requested by peer reviewers were classified as having a negative impact on reporting, such as the addition of post-hoc subgroup analyses, statistical analyses that were not prespecified, or optimistic conclusions that 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.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.13.21255413

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255413: (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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has several limitations. Because of the lack of individual-level data, we were unable to examine the association between individual mobility, education, and COVID-19 incidence. We are limited to contextual factors reflecting the sociodemographic composition of sub-cities. Additionally, Grandata mobility datasets are metrics of the total number of out-of-home events that occur in a particular sub-city unit at a particular moment in time, regardless of travelers’ sub-city unit of residence. This means that we were unable to measure the mobility levels of residents of a particular sub-city unit, but instead we measured mobility that occurred by anyone in a particular sub-city at a given moment in time. However, this sub-city level analysis remains highly relevant to policymakers, who may be similarly focused on regulating all mobility within certain geographic areas versus regulating mobility based on an individual’s location of residence. Furthermore, because the mobility data is available at the sub-city level only, we were unable to examine mobility at a city level to evaluate the relative importance of city-level versus sub-city level mobility reductions on COVID-19 incidence. Finally, while other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as face-coverings, social distancing, and handwashing, play substantial roles in mitigating community-level COVID-19 incidence, these behaviors are challenging to measure.29 We expect that mobility and other NPIs are correlat...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: CRIS was approved for use as a de-identified data resource for secondary analysis by Oxfordshire Research Ethics Committee C (reference 18/SC/0372).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">STATA was also used to estimate power for the analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Strengths and limitations: As a strength of this study, SLAM is a near-monopoly service provider of all aspects of secondary mental health care to residents within a defined geographic catchment, allowing relatively comprehensive ascertainment of people with the disorders of interest receiving specialist care during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. The CRIS database provided the platform to ascertain the relevant sample and access information on a range of potential confounders. However, it is important to bear in mind that not all people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders will have been receiving specialist mental healthcare at that time, so that generalisability is limited. Furthermore, not all COVID-19 infection episodes will have been ascertained, particularly during early stages of the pandemic when access to tests was very limited. Another important limitation of the analysis results from type II error. We acknowledge this analysis is underpowered, although the urgency of the situation led us to decide to present data available at this stage. The COVID-related hospitalisation and intensive care treatment data came from combining information provided by local general hospitals and supplementing that by reading clinical notes of each patients. For patients who did not receive COVID-related treatments at the local general hospitals, we have assumed their clinical notes would capture mentions of any COVID-related treatments they received. However, it cannot be ruled out ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.12.21255327: (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: Facilities which did not consent to data collection and facilities with known very low surgical volumes were excluded.<br>IACUC: Ethical approval was granted by the Sierra Leone Ethical and Scientific Review Committee and the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in central Norway (2020/155388).<br>IRB: Ethical approval was granted by the Sierra Leone Ethical and Scientific Review Committee and the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in central Norway (2020/155388).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 in STATA v16, StataCorp™, SPSS™ and Microsoft Excel™.</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">Qualitative analysis was performed using Nvivo 12™ to identify common themes(20).</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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255380: (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: Research ethics committee approval was obtained from King’s College London Research Ethics Committee (21/04/2020, Reference; LRS 19/20-18541 ISRCTN16561225).<br>Consent: Completion of the survey indicated consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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">Throughout this process, JB, AB, and MM and wider members of the CovPall team acted as ‘critical friends’ 26 by challenging, questioning, and contributing to the interpretation of findings.</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">Data Collection: REDCap was used to build and host the survey.</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">Data analysis: Descriptive analysis using SPSS (v24) was conducted to provide contextual data to inform qualitative analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Free text responses were analysed in NVivo (v12) using reflexive thematic analysis.22, 23 JB and AB familiarised themselves with the free-text data, coding inductively at a sematic level.</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: 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">ISRCTN16561225</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255104: (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 approval was granted by the Suriname Ministry of Health’s Ethics Review Board (registration number:IGAP02-482020; ISRCTN18304314) and was performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki.<br>Consent: The eligibility criteria included written informed consent given by the patient or next-of-kin, a PCR confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, and admittance to the ICU due to progressive respiratory failure ranging between severe and life threatening ARDS based on the Berlin classification9.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Each lung zone was scored between 0 and 3, leading to an overall “CXR-SCORE”, ranging from 0 to 18: Chest x-rays were examined immediately prior to (day 0) and two days after (day 2) CP administration, or on day 0 and day 2 following inclusion in de the control group by two independent radiologists blinded to group assignment.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Eligibility criteria for donating CP were a positive response measured as optical densitometry (OD) levels of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 total IgG antibody Wantai test13, being at least 14 days asymptomatic following resolution of COVID-19 and having two negative PCR-tests from nasopharyngeal swabs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 total 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">General descriptive characteristics were assessed using SPSS for Windows (version 16.0; SPSS).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Another limitation is the relative small number of patients. Based on the results of this trial, new patients are being enrolled which may provide further evidence on the potential beneficial effects of CP. Further characterization of the CP used in this study is needed to fully ascertain its efficacy and correlate variation in plasma factors to clinical outcome in CP recipients. In summary, COVID-19 remains a global health threat and reliable treatment is crucial for reducing mortality and the burden on global health care. Access to CP therapy in a low-resource setting was enabled by the novel filtration device Hemoclear, which was easy to implement in an ICU setting and was used without adverse effects on both the donor as the CP recipients 41,42. Equitable access to such methods allows readiness in case of viral mutations or new pandemics. The use of simple and available methods such as chest x-ray and calculated PF ratios allowed early assessment of treatment effects. SARS-CoV-2-specific therapies, including CP from recovered patients, could be highly effective options to treat COVID-19 in the absence of widespread vaccination. As such, CP therapy may help bridge the gap until sufficient vaccination coverage has been reached.
  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">ISRCTN18304314</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.17.440278: (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: were enrolled and 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">In particular, for this study six hospitalized COVID-19 [CP; 2 females/4 males; median age ±Standard Deviation (SD) 51.5 ± 23.3 yrs.]</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 purity of the recovered cells was greater than 95% as assessed by flow cytometry analysis with anti-BDCA4 (Miltenyi biotech) or anti-CD14 (BD Biosciences) monoclonal antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-BDCA4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD14</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometry analyses: Monoclonal antibodies anti-Lineage cocktail (Lin), PD-L1, CD80, CD86, HLA-DR, CD123, CXCR-3, CXCR-4, CD62-L and CCR7 as well as IgG1 or IgG2a isotype controls were purchased from BD Biosciences, while BDCA4 from Miltenyi Biotech.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Lineage</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PD-L1</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# EPX140-15803-901, RRID:AB_2576106)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD80</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD86</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-DR</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 341068, RRID:AB_2264695)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD123</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CXCR-3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CXCR-4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD62-L</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CCR7</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 production: Vero E6 (Vero C1008, clone E6-CRL-1586; ATCC) cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) supplemented with non-essential amino acids (NEAA, 1x), penicillin/streptomycin (P/S, 100 U/mL), HEPES buffer (10 mM) and 10% (v/v) Fetal bovine serum (FBS).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero C1008</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# CRL-1586, RRID:CVCL_0574)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A clinical isolate hCoV-19/Italy/UniSR1/2020 (GISAID accession ID: EPI_ISL_413489) was isolated and propagated in Vero E6 cells, and viral titer was determined by 50% tissue culture infective dose (TCID50) and plaque assay for confirming the obtained titer.</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">Calu-3 cells were seeded into 12-wells plates to reach confluence.</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">Flow cytometry analyses: Monoclonal antibodies anti-Lineage cocktail (Lin), PD-L1, CD80, CD86, HLA-DR, CD123, CXCR-3, CXCR-4, CD62-L and CCR7 as well as IgG1 or IgG2a isotype controls were purchased from BD Biosciences, while BDCA4 from Miltenyi Biotech.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PD-L1</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">In the mixed cell population of PBMC, pDC were considered as those cells in live/single FvDye-Lineage-CD123+BDCA4+HLADR+ gate (S3A Fig).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pDC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were analyzed by Flow Jo software v.10.7 (BD Biosciences).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Flow Jo</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">RNA isolation and quantitative real time PCR analysis: Total RNA was isolated by Trizol® Reagent (Invitrogen, Thermo Fischer Scientific), quantified using a Nanodrop2000 spectrophotometer and quality assessed with an established cut-off of ~1.8 for 260/280 absorbance ratio.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fischer Scientific</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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:
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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 study participants and/or caregivers provided written informed consent prior to specimen collection.<br>IRB: The study was approved by the local research ethics board (Commission cantonale d’éthique de la recherche #2020-02323).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">P-RDT results were read independently by two members of the study team, both being blinded to the result assigned by their pair as well as to the clinical presentation of the participant.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right: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 therefore estimated at 654 participants.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data collection: The following data collected at enrolment were managed using RedCap™ managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at HUG: date of enrolment, number of days post onset of symptoms (DPOS), gender, age, type of symptoms (nasal discharge, cough, dyspnea, dysphagia,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REDCap</div><div>suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses were processed under SPSS software v23.0</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, the evaluation was based on one RDT only. Comparative studies have shown similar or reduced performance of other RDTs when compared to the P-RDT6,20. Is it therefore highly unlikely that any RDT would perform significantly better in children than the P-RDT. Second, the study was performed using two different validated RT-PCR assays as gold standards, although 90% of the specimens were tested on the Cobas and standard curves used to calculate VL from Ct values were previously validated and used in several publications6,11,12. Third, the study was conducted in a high prevalence setting. Extrapolating the findings to low prevalence settings must be done with caution. Then, providing that the NPS for P-RDT was always performed after the NPS for RT-PCR, one cannot exclude that the second procedure was more challenging to perform. Finally, we did not evaluate the performance of P-RDT on oropharyngeal, nasal or saliva specimens. However, given the fact that VL is lower in these anatomical compartments when compared to NPS21-24, one can expect even lower sensitivity of P-RDT if used on oropharyngeal, nasal or saliva specimens. In conclusion, this independent study confirms the respective suboptimal sensitivity of P-RDT in symptomatic children, and its poor sensitivity in asymptomatic children at time of sampling, providing additional evidence for cautious routine use of these tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, both in symptomatic and asym...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255549: (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 reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee OUEST VI (20.06.15.31306).<br>Consent: All patients provided written informed consent before the entry 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">, known allergy, hypersensitivity or intolerance to the study drug or to any of its components, life expectancy estimated to be less than 6 months patient under guardianship or trusteeship, pregnancy or lack of effective contraception in women of childbearing potential.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 and participants: This is an ongoing multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase IIa-III clinical trial involving hospitalized patients with COVID-19-related moderate pneumonia requiring low-flow oxygen supplementation[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">Following blinded analysis of the first cohort (0.5mg/kg at D1 and D5) and of the first two patients (one active and one placebo) of the second cohort (2mg/kg at D1 and D5), the remaining patients of the second cohort received a single infusion of 2 mg/kg of XAV-19 at day 1.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This SOC included use of dexamethasone and other treatments per local practice and national guidelines at time of the study, which may include, not exclusively, antibiotics, antiviral treatment, immune therapies not based on antibodies administration and anticoagulants.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibiotics ,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anticoagulants</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:
  An important limitation of this phase IIa portion of our trial is the small sample size, that did not allow to determine if XAV-19 was associated with improved outcomes. This question will be rigorously tested in the analysis of the phase III part of this ongoing trial. Even if the number of patients who received XAV-19 was low, there were no safety concerns. Second, higher doses of XAV-19 were not explored. However, the 2 mg/kg dose achieved sustained active concentrations. In conclusion, XAV-19 was well tolerated in patients admitted to hospital for COVID-related moderate pneumonia requiring low-flow oxygen supplementation. The pharmacokinetic results of a single infusion of 2 mg/kg suggest that this dose has the potential to successfully block viral diffusion in humans and supports the selection of this regimen for the ongoing multicentre randomized (1:1), double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III trial (ClinicalTrial.gov, NCT04453384) involving 400 patients.
  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">NCT04453384</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 to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of XAV-19 in Patie…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 reviewed by the ethics committee at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (EA2/192/20), and written informed consent was obtained prior to study entry.<br>Consent: The study was reviewed by the ethics committee at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (EA2/192/20), and written informed consent was obtained prior to study entry.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 limitation of our study is that only symptomatic patients were included. While there is no reason to believe that self-collection does not work in asymptomatic individuals, findings with respect to, e.g., symptom duration are not transferrable. Our study among SARS-CoV-2 positive patients could not produce specificity data. However, since specificity is predominantely determined by the diagnostic assay applied, we assume that this parameter is comparable for the sampling method. Moreover, potentially decreased specificity could still be addressed by confirming positivity via professional sample collections.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
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  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: All participants gave written informed consent according to the approval of the ethics committee at the Charité University Hospital Berlin (EA2/010/21, EA4/188/20), the ethics committee of Saxony-Anhalt (EA7/21) and the ethics committee of the University of Greifswald (BB019/21).<br>IRB: All participants gave written informed consent according to the approval of the ethics committee at the Charité University Hospital Berlin (EA2/010/21, EA4/188/20), the ethics committee of Saxony-Anhalt (EA7/21) and the ethics committee of the University of Greifswald (BB019/21).</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">Authentication: Annotation of clusters was performed manually by visual inspection of typical marker genes for cell-types and cell-states.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For flow cytometric analysis, the following fluorochrome-labeled antibodies were used: BUV737 anti-CD11c (BD, clone B-ly6, 1:50),</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD11c</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">APC-Cy7 anti-CD38 (Biolegend, clone HIT2, 1:1000)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>APC-Cy7</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 338430, RRID:AB_647374)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD38</div><div>suggested: (LSBio (LifeSpan Cat# LS-C84991-1000, RRID:AB_10967217)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After incubation for 60 minutes at 37°C, wells were washed 3 times and the peroxidase-labelled anti-IgG or anti-IgA antibody solution was added, followed by a second incubation step for 30 min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Surrogate SARS-CoV-2 neutralization test (GenScript): This blocking ELISA qualitatively detects anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies suppressing the interaction between the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike glycoprotein (S) and the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) protein on the surface of cells.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The absorbance of the sample is inversely correlated with the amount of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies .</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Enriched cells were incubated with Fc Blocking Reagent (Milteniy Biotec) following manufacturer’s instructions and subsequently stained up to 107 lymphocytes per 100µL for 30min at 4°C with the following fluorophore-conjugated anti-human antibodies:, VioBlue anti-CD14 (Miltenyi Biotec, Clone TÜK4, 1:200), VioBlue anti-CD16 (Miltenyi Biotec, clone VEP13, 1:50)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human antibodies: , VioBlue anti-CD14 ( Miltenyi Biotec ,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD16</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-098-102, RRID:AB_2661280)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">, clone HIT2, 1:25), and the following TotalSeq-C oligomer-conjugated anti-human antibodies: CD138 (clone DL-1021, 1:50),</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human antibodies: CD138</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To allow for sequencing of pools of cells from different donors, cells were also incubated with TotalSeq oligomer-conjugated hashtag antibodies (TotalSeq-C anti-human Hashtag antibody 1 to 4 from BioLegend, 1:250).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human Hashtag antibody 1 to 4</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">Study participants: Peripheral blood samples (EDTA anti-coagulated or serum-tubes, BD Vacutainersystem, BD Diagnostics, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) from 25 healthy controls, 40 hemodialysis patients, 4 peritoneal dialysis patients and 40 kidney transplant recipients were collected at 7 ± 2 days after the second dose of SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccination.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Diagnostics</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Single Cell RNA-library preparation and sequencing: Single cell suspensions were obtained by cell sorting and applied to the 10x Genomics workflow for cell capturing and scRNA gene expression (GEX) and CiteSeq library preparation using the Chromium Single Cell 5’ Library & Gel Bead Kit as well as the Single Cell 5’ Feature Barcode Library Kit (10x Genomics).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CiteSeq</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The cellranger output was further analyzed in R using the Seurat package (version 3.2.2) (39).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Seurat</div><div>suggested: (SEURAT, RRID:SCR_007322)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometric data were analyzed by FlowJo software 10.7.1 (TreeStar, Ashland, OR, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">GraphPad Prism Version 5 (GraphPad software, San Diego, CA, USA) was used for statistical analysis.</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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 24, 20 and 22. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Study protocol was approved by the University of British Columbia’s Behavioral Review Ethics Board (#H20-01497), and registered at clinicaltrials.gov (#NCT04400279) and the Open Science Framework (</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: The COvid-19 Pandemic and Exercise (COPE) Trial was a parallel randomized controlled trial, with participants allocated randomly to 1 of 4 treatment groups: 1) HIIT, 2) Yoga, 3) HIIT+Yoga, or 4) WLC.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Trial Design: The COvid-19 Pandemic and Exercise (COPE) Trial was a parallel randomized controlled trial, with participants allocated randomly to 1 of 4 treatment groups: 1) HIIT, 2) Yoga, 3) HIIT+Yoga, or 4) WLC.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>COPE</div><div>suggested: (COPE, RRID:SCR_009153)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: 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: 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">NCT04400279</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">The COVID-19 Pandemic and Exercise 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.
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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: Ethics and informed consent: Ethics was granted by St George’s, University of London Research Ethics Committee (REC 2020.0058 and 2020.00630).<br>IRB: Ethics and informed consent: Ethics was granted by St George’s, University of London Research Ethics Committee (REC 2020.0058 and 2020.00630).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 study has a number of limitations, including a lack of geographical representation from across the UK (most participants were resident in London or the North East). Whilst interpreters were available for participants, only two requested this service, meaning the study may have a bias towards those who have a higher level of English language. However, the interviews were designed to encourage discussion of participant’s wider community, meaning those with less language skills were often indirectly represented by their peers. Additionally, the researchers’ ethnicity and professional training may have influenced responses through perceived power differentials; the anonymous nature of telephone interviews, however, may have encouraged participants to share their views more freely. This study has generated valuable insight into potential solutions and strategies to achieve equitable COVID-19 vaccine uptake among precarious migrants in the UK, with implications for other marginalised groups and with findings salient beyond the pandemic. More research is urgently needed to explore risk factors for low COVID-19 vaccine uptake in migrant and other vulnerable communities, to assess the extent to which barriers to access, vaccine hesitancy and circulating misinformation are playing a role. Research is now needed to ensure monitoring of equitable vaccine uptake in a wide variety of marginalised groups. Going forward, it will be critical that lessons learned during this pande...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">Field Sample Permit: Sample collection and study area: Three (3) ml viral transport medium (VTM) containing nasopharyngeal swab samples were collected in Covid-19 clinically suspected individuals (n=67) at Coronavirus Research and Identification Lab in the University of Garmian in Kalar town, Sulaymaniyah province, Kurdistan region of Iraq from June to October 2020.<br>Consent: Written consent forms were taken from the covid-19 suspected persons and the study was ethically approved by an ethical committee, which is adhered to WHO Guidelines on Ethical Issues in Public Health Surveillance and to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, at the department of biology, University of Garmian. 2.2. Viral RNA Extraction: Sample processing was handled according to WHO standards under biological safety Level 2 using personal protection equipment (PPE) and biological safety cabinet (Labconco, Kansas City, MO, USA).<br>IRB: Written consent forms were taken from the covid-19 suspected persons and the study was ethically approved by an ethical committee, which is adhered to WHO Guidelines on Ethical Issues in Public Health Surveillance and to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, at the department of biology, University of Garmian. 2.2. Viral RNA Extraction: Sample processing was handled according to WHO standards under biological safety Level 2 using personal protection equipment (PPE) and biological safety cabinet (Labconco, Kansas City, MO, USA).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitation of this study was the absence of the D614 wild type subtype in the area where SARS CoV-2 has been spreading. However, in our study, three assays, as Taqman probes, ARMS, and RFLP all validated each other, in addition to the DNA sequencing data. Co-segregations of SNVs are also essential for future understanding of the roles of viral pathogenesis and host immune responses against the virus. For instance, identifications of common co-occurred mutations in SARS CoV-2 spike proteins at a particular population would overcome problems of the viral antibody resistance and host cell binding capacity of the virus. By 12 February 2021, the D614G (A23403G) is the most prevalent single nucleotide variations (SNVs) in the world that is about 439,559 sequences (95.5%). Other common mutations in the spike (S) protein, including A222V (C22227T), L81S (C21614T), and S477N (G22992A), are co-occurred with D614G in 100,401 sequences (21.8%), 45,943 sequences (10%) and 23,426 sequences (5.1%), respectively (Covid19 CG data: https://covidcg.org/?tab=group). Moreover, a UK variant, N501Y, has been emerged since October 2020 and currently spreading in the country (Leung et al., 2021) and has become public threat in more than 30 countries (WHO, 2020). Therefore, future work should concentrate on these four mutations to see whether their co-occurrences with D614G are associated with disease severity, infectivity, transmissions, and antibody sensitivity. Moreover, mutations play roles in z...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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: Ethics statement: The use of samples from Baltimore was approved by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB00247886, IRB00250798, and IRB00091667).<br>Consent: The parent studies were conducted according to the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association, where all subjects provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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 with STATA 14.2 (Statacorp College Station, Texas, USA), and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for sensitivity and specificity were calculated with the Clopper-Pearson exact method.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Statacorp</div><div>suggested: 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 are a number of limitations of our study. First, the samples from Uganda of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients were limited, with only six samples within the first week post first PCR positive test and no serial samples for a given individual. Additionally, these samples from known infected Ugandan individuals had limited symptoms, while the Baltimore samples from known SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals were all hospitalized subjects. The pre-pandemic samples from Baltimore were not matched to those from Uganda based on symptomology, though historically, individuals attending the ED in the United States have a high prevalence of fever and viral infections (17). Samples from the JHH ED do have a high burden of chronic viral infections, as demonstrated by a seroprevalence of 6%, 12% and 50% for HIV, HCV and HSV-2 respectively (18). In summary, the geographical origin of the samples appeared to impact the performance of the CoronaCHEK LFA. IgM reactivity was the main cause for the false positive results. Given that IgM responses generally appear a couple days before IgG, it may be useful not to measure IgM at all in serological studies given the improvement in specificity. Further evaluations of serologic assays are needed to find appropriate tools for sero-surveillance in an African setting.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.13.21255281: (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 did not require approval from any research ethics committee as all data were anonymous and obtained from open and public open source databases.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 data were analyzed using the STATA 16 software and followed the recommendations of the REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected Data (RECORD) guidelines[12], attached checklist.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RECORD</div><div>suggested: (RECORD, RRID:SCR_009097)</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: One of the strengths of our study is its size, which includes all cases of covid-19 from the RS state officially reported to the Ministry of Health during a period when the P.1 variant was introduced in the state. Another strength is the fact that it is studying a period in which there was not yet a complete depletion of health resources in the studied place. This study has some limitations, such as the use of secondary data, which can present problems in the quality, integrity and delays in the recorded data. Patients were not tested individually to see if it was a strain of SARS-CoV-2, for comparison of groups. We assume that as of February, the proportion of variant P.1 among patients with covid-19 was higher than in November and December, although it is quite likely, considering other studies in reference units in the state, this assumption is quite inaccurate. The use of CFR and hCFR as severity indicators based on epidemiological surveillance data can lead to different types of bias, however, it remains a useful tool, especially in emergency situations in public health.[17–20] This is an initial analysis in which a limited number of available variables have been assessed and additional individual risk factors have not been explored in depth. Despite these limitations, the results obtained in this study suggest a temporal association between the emergence of variant P.1 and severity indicators related to covid-19 measured by CFR and hCFR, in ad...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.21255452: (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 Institutional Ethics Committee and was conducted in a fifteen hundred bedded tertiary care hospital in the National Capital Region of Delhi, which has treated over eight thousand hospitalized Covid-19 patients.<br>Consent: The informed consent process followed by a baseline questionnaire was completed by a doctor.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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: Assay ranges from 3.8 to 400 AU/mL SARS CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG. < 15 AU/mL were reported negative and those test results ≥15.0 AU/mL were reported as positive. 2.2. Lab Quality Assurance: The fully automated LIAISON® has been calibrated and validated according to the laboratory SOP, which is 3 samples (high, medium and low value) were run for 5 times a day for 5 consecutive days.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">[Time Frame: 118±7 days post vaccination] and assessment of efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccination against severe and non-severe COVID-19 [Time Frame: Day 118±7 days] are secondary endpoints. 2.1. Laboratory Methods: The serum was tested for the quantitative determination of anti-S1 and anti-S2 specific IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in the fully automated LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG by Chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) technology.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S2 specific IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">d SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG antibody concentrations expressed as arbitrary units (AU/mL) and graded the results.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S1/S2 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">Inter-Lab Comparison (ILC) and Repeat and split testing were conducted as per standard laboratory quality assurance protocol. 2.3. Data Analysis:</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Repeat</div><div>suggested: (ProRepeat, RRID:SCR_006113)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations of the study: Our work is subject to several limitations, pertaining both to the observational cluster data our calibration relies on, as well as to simplifications employed in the model. The issue of age-dependent transmission risk is currently controversially discussed (see for example Anastassopoulou et al. 2020 (35)). The transmission dynamics can be attributed to information bias, due to a higher share of asymptomatic cases in children – or to a mix of information bias and true decreased transmission risk among children. Our data clearly confirms that the probability for asymptomatic courses of the infection decreases with age (see Figure 8). TTI strategies are typically triggered by the occurrence of a symptomatic case. Cluster cases might have been missed because not all contacts of the cases have been tested for infection. Since adults with a SARS-CoV-2 infection are more likely to develop symptoms and therefore to be tested, source cases might have been identified over-proportionally among teachers than among students. This might result in missed instances of student-to-student and student-to-teacher transmissions. The data on which our calibration is based upon represents a time at which the social environment of confirmed positive cases was stringently tested by the Austrian authorities. Specifically, authorities tested both category 1 and category 2 contact persons without discriminating between symptomatic and asymptomatic presentation. Nevertheless, ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruitment of 3347 individuals for this second survey was done using randomized house sampling within cenus tracts coupled with a community engaged campaign with support from Latino Health Access (a community based health organization that has been based in Santa Ana for over 2 decades, https://www.latinohealthaccess.org/).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 19. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.12.21255349

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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:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.440124: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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">Then, membranes were washed and incubated with HRP-conjugated anti-human IgG antibody (Sigma-Aldrich; 1:10.000) followed by chemiluminescence detection.</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">After washing with TBS-T, the membrane was incubated with an anti-Hb antibody (1:5.000) (Sigma-Aldrich).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Hb</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After incubation, membranes were washed with TBS-T, followed by additional incubation with anti-human Hb antibody for 90 min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human Hb</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Subsequently, the membrane was washed with TBS-T and incubated for 90 min with anti-rabbit IgG antibody conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (Sigma Alrich), diluted 1:5.000 in TBS-T solution containing 0.75 % BSA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-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">Alternatively, two experimental conditions were performed: i) preincubation of the virus with the compounds (1 μM) for 1 h at 37 °C before their addition to Vero E6 cells (MOI of 0.01) for an additional hour, or ii) preincubation of Vero cells with the compounds (1 μM) for 1 h at 37 °C before their exposure to the virus (MOI 0.01).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were acquired using Xcalibur software (version 3.0.63).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Xcalibur</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Xcalibur, RRID:SCR_014593)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis: Graphs were prepared, and statistics were performed using R software 4.0.0 and GraphPad Prism version 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The protocol was approved by relevant institutional review boards (IRB/IEC).<br>Consent: Before patient enrollment, informed consent was obtained written/orally from the patient or written/orally from the patient’s legally authorized representative.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 treatments: Patients were centrally randomized 1:1 by interactive response technology in a blinded manner to either a single one-hour intravenous (IV) infusion of otilimab 90 mg (aiming to achieve serum otilimab concentrations through to Day 7 similar to steady-state trough in patients with RA) or placebo (saline).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 treatments: Patients were centrally randomized 1:1 by interactive response technology in a blinded manner to either a single one-hour intravenous (IV) infusion of otilimab 90 mg (aiming to achieve serum otilimab concentrations through to Day 7 similar to steady-state trough in patients with RA) or placebo (saline).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right: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 sample size of 800 patients provided approximately 90% power to detect a difference of 12% in the proportion of patients alive and free of respiratory failure at a one-sided 2.5% significance level and an assumed placebo response rate of 45%.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</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">NCT04376684</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">Investigating Otilimab in Patients With Severe Pulmonary COV…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: After informed consent, 5 mL of peripheral venous blood were collected from adult participants and serological testing for IgG-antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 was conducted.<br>IRB: Approval: The KitaCoviDD19-study which was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden (BO-EK-180052020), registered on July 15th, 2020 and assigned the clinical trial number DRKS00022729.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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">Blood samples were assessed for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies using a commercially available chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) technology for the quantitative determination of anti-S1 and anti-S2 specific IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (Diasorin LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG Assay).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S2 specific IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All samples with a positive or equivocal LIAISON® test result, as well as all samples from participants with a PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, were tested with two additional serological tests (chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA) intended for the qualitative detection of IgG antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 (Abbott Diagnostics® ARCHITECT SARS-CoV-2 IgG) and an ELISA detecting IgG against the S1 domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (Euroimmun® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA)). Definitions: Participants with detectable antibodies in at least two assays were considered seropositive.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (Euroimmun®</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All samples with a positive or equivocal LIAISON® test result, as well as all samples from participants with a PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, were tested with two additional serological tests (chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA) intended for the qualitative detection of IgG antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 (Abbott Diagnostics® ARCHITECT SARS-CoV-2 IgG) and an ELISA detecting IgG against the S1 domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (Euroimmun® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA)). Definitions: Participants with detectable antibodies in at least two assays were considered seropositive.</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">Statistical Analysis: Analyses were performed using IBM SPSS 25.0 and Microsoft Excel 2010.</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>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:
  There are several limitations to our study. We enrolled a limited number of participants in our study, thus it was possible that infections remained undetected. Moreover, a lower sensitivity of PCR-testing for SARS-CoV-2 in stool samples than in oro- and nasopharyngeal swaps might also contribute to underestimating the true numbers of infections 14. However, the inclusion of low- as well as high-prevalence settings within the study period and the high participation rate of childcare workers in all facilities are strengths of our study. Additionally, the use of antibody testing instead of PCR testing reduces the possibility of missed undetected SARS-CoV-2 cases at least in parents and childcare workers.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Initially, we have extracted and transformed values from the raw textual dataset11, i.e. in the “gender” field there were three types of values, i.e. ‘M’ as male, ‘F’ as female, and ‘U’ as unknown gender.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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 Eligibility Criteria: We included all studies published between 2019 and October 2020, by using PubMed, SCOPUS and Google Scholar, provided that they met the following criteria: 1) written in English; 2) original articles on studies with a longitudinal design; and 3) prospective or retrospective, observational (analytical or descriptive), experimental or quasi-experimental, controlled or non-controlled studies.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The PubMed database was systematically screened using the following terms: [EATING DISORDER] AND [COVID] OR [LOCKDOWN] (n=48); [COVID] AND [BINGE-EATING] (n=16); [COVID] AND [BULIMIA NERVOSA] (n=16); [COVID] AND [ANOREXIA NERVOSA] (n=8), leading to a total of 88 papers.</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></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: Across studies, the main weaknesses were due to limited assessment of pre-lockdown EDs symptoms, and to the absence of comparison groups. Moreover, in some studies, the EDs diagnoses were self-reported and specific information on disorders was not collected. Participants were mostly recruited online, via social media, resulting in samples being biased towards those who were familiar with the use of technology. The discrepancy in data collection points (early stage of lockdown vs. late stage) made difficult to compare the main findings.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255638: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: To ensure compliance with the Human Subjects Protection Program (HSPP), the use of clinical data was reviewed and approved by a UArizona Institutional Review Board (IRB). 2.4.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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">To ensure compliance with the Human Subjects Protection Program (HSPP), the use of clinical data was reviewed and approved by a UArizona Institutional Review Board (IRB). 2.4.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Human Subjects Protection Program</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical Analysis: Statistical analyses were performed in Microsoft Excel (version 16.47.1, 2021) and R studio (R Studio Team (2020).</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">. RStudio: Integrated Development for R. RStudio, PBC, Boston, MA. http://www.rstudio.com/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>http://www.rstudio.com/</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: 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 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255130: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Rush University Medical Center (IRB# 20041610-IRB01).<br>Consent: After providing informed consent, up to 15 mL of venous blood was collected into vacutainer tubes and fingerstick blood was collected in microtainer tubes from each study participant.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Testing and result reporting was performed blinded, with the test performer having no knowledge of which samples were SARS-CoV-2 IgG positive or negative based on previous ARCHITECT SARS-CoV-2 IgG assays with matched patient venous plasma samples.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</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">Deidentified plasma, whole blood, and DBS samples were frozen at -80°C and shipped to Abbott Diagnostics (Abbott Park, IL) for use in serological assays.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.11.21255289: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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 10.1101/2021.04.11.21255285: (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">In this research context, all words in a tweet were represented with numerical information, and each tweet was mapped into a numerical vector for classification. E. TEXT CLASSIFICATION: After each tweet was converted to a vector of features using TF-IDF, we applied several machine learning classifiers provided by Scikit-learn Python library [53], including Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Naïve Bayes (NB) to build the pipeline for text classification.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Scikit-learn</div><div>suggested: (scikit-learn, RRID:SCR_002577)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255647: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Research on Humans of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán on August 25, 2020 (Reg. No. DMC-3369-20-20-1-1a).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 rationale: We calculated with “easyROC” (20), an open R-based web-tool for estimating sample sizes for AUC direct and non-inferior comparisons using Obuchowski’s method (21) that; for detecting no-inferiority with a >0.05 maximal AUC difference with the reported LOW-HARM AUC (0.96 95% CI:0.94 – 0.98) with a case allocation ratio of 0.7 (because the mortality in our centre is ∼ 0.3) with a power of 0.8 and a significance cut-off level of 0.05, 159 patients would be needed.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</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 AUCs differences were analysed using DeLong’s method with the STATA function “roccomp” (22).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This work highlights the inherent limitations of statistically derived scores and some of the advantages of Clinical Gestalt predictions. In other scenarios where using predictive scores is frequent, more experienced clinicians can always ponder their sometimes subjective yet, quite valuable insight. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic clinicians with all levels of training started their learning curve at the same time. In this study, we had the unique opportunity of re-evaluating more than one score (two of them in the same setting and for the same purpose they were designed for), while testing the accuracy of Clinical Gestalt, in a group of clinicians who started their learning curve for managing a disease at the same time (experience and training withing healthcare teams is usually mixed for other diseases). Additionally, we explored the accuracy of Clinical Gestalt across different degrees of prediction confidence. To our knowledge, this is the first time that this type of analysis is done for subjective clinical predictions and proved to be quite insightful. The fact that Clinical Gestalt’s accuracy correlates with confidence in prediction, suggests that while there is value in subjective predictions, it is also important to ask ourselves about how confident we are about our predictions. Interestingly, our results suggest Clinical Gestalt predictions are particularly prone to be positively biased, clinicians were more likely to correctly predict which patients would surv...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No 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 27. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255459: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">If more than one person tested positive on the first date, the primary case was randomly selected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">As not all positive samples have been selected for WGS, it is important to understand the sample selection process.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>WGS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Some limitations apply to this study. This is a retrospective observational study, therefore causality naturally cannot be inferred. Additionally, we did not have access to data on rapid antigen tests, which have been increasingly used in Denmark since December 2020. All cases with a positive antigen test were recommended to have a confirmatory RT-PCR test. If cases tested positive with an antigen test and not a RT-PCR test, we could not include these as positive cases. Despite of these limitations, we believe that the results of this study provide useful new insights into the transmissibility of B.1.1.7. In summary, we found an attack rate of 38% in households with a primary cases infected with B.1.1.7 and 27% in households with a primary case infected with other lineages. Primary cases infected with B.1.1.7 had an increased transmissibility of 1.5-1.7 times that of primary cases infected with other lineages. The increased transmissibility of B.1.1.7 is multiplicative across age and viral load. The spread of lineage B.1.1.7 has been explosive in countries across the world. The results found in this study add new knowledge that can be used to mitigate the further spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7. Further studies are needed to evaluate the transmissibility in other settings, such as workplaces, schools and other places of infection.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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  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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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">Next, we took two biopsy punches using the Integra Miltex Biopsy Punches with Plunger System (Thermo Fisher Scientific; Catalog # 12-460-410) from each of the relevant stool samples and transferred these to microcentrifuge tubes corresponding to the respective samples.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fisher Scientific; Catalog</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.10.21255248: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: The participants who adhered to the Ivermectin prophylaxis program and signed the informed consent and had a minimum age of 18 years old, were included in the intervention group only if: 1. received the first dose of Ivermectin during the first week of the study; 2. complied with a minimum of 2 doses of Ivermectin during the 4 weeks of the study; 3. the difference in days between 2 doses was not greater than 14 days.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The following healthcare personnel were excluded from the Ivermectin prophylaxis program: pregnant or suspected pregnant women; women breastfeeding; patients receiving coumarin anticoagulants; those allergic to Ivermectin.</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 with IBM SPSS and RStudio 4.0.4</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>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: 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">NCT04832945</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">SARS-CoV-2 Pre-exposure Prophylaxis With Ivermectin Retrospe…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.12.21255299: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethical approval: Unselected samples from in- and outpatients and staff constitute pilot implementation with embedded diagnostic quality development (Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark, record H-20080005).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Statistical power: The cohort size was determined on >80% power to detect a 5% difference in sensitivity between PCR and the antigen POCT.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A box plot depicting the Cycle Threshold (Ct) scores between concordant and discordant PCR-to-Veritor samples (limited to Cobas FLOW and BGI results) were analyzed in GraphPad Prism version 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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:
  Finally, the NPV of 97.6% is at par with the majority of antigen test evaluated6, with the caveat that high NPV values are driven by the relatively low SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in ours and other’s studies. Our study cohort is defined by all individuals being in- and outpatients at the Emergency-, Pediatrics- or Infectious Diseases departments and staff undergoing routine testing. The age range is from 5 days old to 98 years. The broad age spectrum contrast with similar studies, most of which only included persons 18 years or older (Table 3), demonstrating the easy operationalization of the Veritor antigen test using a throat collected specimen. The SARS-CoV-2 prevalence by NAAT, overall and amongst persons with unknown SARS-CoV-2 status, was 8.1% and 5.5%, respectively. The prevalence reflects the hospital setting, the enrichment with recently diagnosed, NAAT confirmed SARS-CoV-2 positive patients, and a peak prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Denmark at the time. Veritor test negative/PCR positive cases had significantly higher Ct scores indicating a lower viral load of the discordant samples compared to the Veritor-to-PCR concordant samples (Figure 2). This is in line with earlier studies of various antigen test system performance11-13,15-17. In the respiratory tract, SARS-CoV-2 peak viral load is observed at the time of symptom onset and subsequently declines18,19. In a clinical update by Cevik et al.20 they conclude that the highest infectiousness potential of SARS-CoV-2 is up to 5...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.11.21255290: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This survey was conducted after appropriate review by the Ethics Committee of the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Study Design: The objects in this study were collected using a free-writing description.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A dedicated environment for the statistical analyses was created using python and scikit-posthocs (version 0.6.7).</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:
  Measures for Contact With Objects at Each Location: Limitations and Future Issues: We revealed that the type and number of objects that are touched by people differ depending on the location/vehicle and discussed the countermeasures for contact objects, e.g., disinfection. However, several issues need to be addressed in the future. First, in this study, we conducted a survey focused on general locations, such as hospitals, supermarkets/CVSs, hotels, etc. The data did not include facility information, such as location-specific objects or population density. We will focus on specific facilities, conduct fixed-point observations, and trace contact with objects in the future. Second, since the data are related to the current coronavirus pandemic and were collected in December 2020, changes in contact behavior as compared to before the pandemic could not be tracked. Importantly, the spread of COVID-19 varies depending on the season, weather, and/or event (Rosario et al., 2020; Sajadi et al., 2020), and the precautionary behaviors depend on individual characteristics such as gender, age, and employment status (Muto et al., 2020). We believe that objects and opportunities for contact may also change according to these factors. Third, this study was conducted in Japan’s urban areas, which saw (and continue to see) the rapid spread of the virus. However, the spread of infection differs depending on the density of the cities in question as well as general congestion (Rader 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:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The present study has some limitations. First, because of data limitations, some differences among variant strains were not considered. However, examination of those differences might be important for predicting which subtype of variant strain is dominant in the outbreak. Secondly, the obtained result reflects information up to March, 2021. Changes in climate or mobility might have affected the results. In addition, as described above, increasing vaccine coverage might eventually affect results. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor differences of infectiousness among strains carefully and continuously.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Franciscan University of Steubenville (IRB #2021-05) as a no-subject contact study with waiver of consent and as exempt under category 4.<br>Consent: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Franciscan University of Steubenville (IRB #2021-05) as a no-subject contact study with waiver of consent and as exempt under category 4.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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 Spike S1 Antibody (human chimeric, IgG isotype) was purchased from GenScript Biotech Corporation (Piscataway, NJ)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human chimeric , IgG isotype</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human chimeric , IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PE conjugated anti-human IgG Fc antibody was purchased from BioLegend (San Diego, CA)</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">If present, the IgG antibodies in specimen against S1 RBD protein (the antigen) will bind to the coated magnetic beads.</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>S1 RBD protein (the antigen)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.09.21255206: (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">Sequencing reads were trimmed to remove adapters and low quality sequences using Trimmomatic v0.36</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">Pileups were generated from the alignment using samtools v1.9 and consensus sequence determined using iVar v1.2.2 (ref PMID: 30621750) with a minimum depth of 10, a minimum base quality score 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>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div><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">Phylogenetic analysis: Genome sequences 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">All Maximum Likelihood (ML) phylogenies 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 BEAST v2.5.2 to estimate the date and location of the most recent common ancestors (MRCA) as well as to estimate the rate of evolution of the virus.</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">BEAST priors were introduced with BEAUTI v2.5.2 including an uncorrelated relaxed molecular clock model with a lognormal distribution of the evolutionary rate, previous estimated evolutionary rates (8×10-4) as the prior for the mean, and a standard deviation of 0.1 after optimization with preliminary runs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BEAUTI</div><div>suggested: (BEAST2, RRID:SCR_017307)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We assumed a GTR substitution model with invariant sites, as the best-fitted model obtained with ModelFinder, and a Coalescence Bayesian Skyline to model the population size changes through time.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ModelFinder</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></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.
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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">WGS was performed using the ARTIC amplicon sequencing protocol 13(Supplementary information 2).</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:
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.440141

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.440141: (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">MEGA version and parameter settings: Version: MEGA-X Statistical Method: Maximum Likelihood Test of Phylogeny: None Model/Method: Jones-Taylor-Thornton (JTT) model Rates among Sites: Uniform Rates Gaps/Missing Data Treatment: Use all sites ML Heuristic Method: Nearest-Neighbor-Interchange (NNT) Initial Tree for ML: Make initial tree automatically (Default - NJ/BioNJ)</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.
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: All live virus experiments were performed in a P3 facility approved by the Institutional Biosafety Committee.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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">Inhibitor treatment: Tocilizumab (Absolute Antibody), AZD5153 and Zanabrutinib (Selleckehem), ST2825 (Medchem Express)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ST2825</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 48h, cells were fixed and γH2AX antibody (Cell Signaling) was used for IF. γH2AXwas visualized using anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 594 (Invitrogen).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>γH2AX</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</div><div>suggested: (Molecular Probes Cat# A-21207, RRID:AB_141637)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The blot from the same run was reprobed with β-actin (Sigma) HRP conjugated antibody to compare protein load in each lane.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>β-actin</div><div>suggested: (Sigma-Aldrich Cat# A2228, RRID:AB_476697)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Commercially available antibodies for phospho-p38 MAPK (Thr180/Tyr182, Thr202/Tyr204),</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>phospho-p38 MAPK</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">p-AKT (S473), p21, γ-H2AX, VCAM-1, ICAM-1 were procured from Cell Signaling Technologies, and p16 antibody was procured from Santa Cruz Biotechnology.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>p-AKT</div><div>suggested: (Antibodies-Online Cat# ABIN461277, RRID:AB_10789159)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S473</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>p21</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>γ-H2AX</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VCAM-1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ICAM-1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>p16</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell culture and transient transfection: Transformed human lung epithelial cells (A549), liver epithelial cells (Huh7.5), liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (TMNK-1) (kindly provided by A. Soto-Gutierrez, University of Pittsburg, PA), and EAhy926 cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Hyclone) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Sigma), 100 U of penicillin/ml, and 100 mg of streptomycin/ml (Sigma).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Huh7.5</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_YU20)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EAhy926</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Spike transfected A549 were measured at 72 h post-transfection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Adhesion of THP-1 cells was measured by Cytoselect Leukocyte-Endothelium Adhesion assay kit (Cell Biolabs, Inc) following suppliers protocol.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>THP-1</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300356/p804_THP-1, RRID:CVCL_0006)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">TMNK-1 cells and from SARS-CoV-2 spike expressing A549 cell culture medium in the presence or absence of inhibitors were used.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TMNK-1</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1564, RRID:CVCL_4W79)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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:
  We should also acknowledge that, due to data limitations, the first age group used to estimate life tables was 0-4. In this case we assumed that the mean years of life lived by those dying in the interval (a0) was 0.5. This assumption implies a trivial effect on life expectancy estimates in low-mortality populations. Finally, we found a strong correlation with SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence as of November 2020, lending validity to our findings. This study reflects for the first time the extraordinary impacts that the COVID-19 has had on most of the Spanish provinces using conventional anual life expectancy estimates. The observed drops over 1 year of life expectancy between 2017-19 and 2020 in several regions as well as the national drops have not been experienced since the Civil War, in the late 1930s (7). In the first weeks of 2021, the third COVID-19 wave has also produced an observable excess mortality at the national level, but this impact differs from the one we reported here for 2020. For example, the provinces from the Valencian Community were highly affected, while its impact on 2020 was one of the smallest. This indicates that life expectancy for 2021 may not fully recover to the levels of previous years. Monitoring regional life expectancy dynamics provide valuable and granular information on the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health in different populations. Similar analyses in other countries may unreveal insightful geographical life expectancy dyna...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Saliva SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing for asymptomatic case detection: Electronic registration and consent for saliva testing was performed with the Nebraska University Laboratory Information Reporting Tool (</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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">Pilot program setting: The Omaha Public School district is comprised of 82 primary and secondary schools, roughly 20 programs, and more than 53,000 students and 9,200 school-based staff.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pilot</div><div>suggested: (Pipeline Pilot, RRID:SCR_014917)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
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  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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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 library’s initial diversity was evaluated and assured by sequencing of randomly picked clones for each step of library construction and the complexity of the library was then calculated.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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 washing with PBST, horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-human IgG antibody (Sigma, USA) was added at the dilution of 1:20000 and incubated at 37°C for 30min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>30min</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then the cells were incubated with 20 μg/ml mAbs or isotype IgG mAb of hepatitis b virus (HBV), at room temperature for 1 h, followed by further incubation with anti-human IgG FITC-conjugated antibody (Sigma, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HBV</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then cells were stained with anti-mouse IgG Taxes red-conjugated antibody and anti-human IgG FITC-conjugated antibody (Sigma, USA) for another 30 min then analyzed by FACSAria II (BD, 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-human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells and Viruses: Cell lines (HEK293T and VeroE6 cells) were initially acquired from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC; USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">EXPi293F cells were purchased from Life Technologies, USA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EXPi293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Afterward, HuH-7 cells were added into the plates (2×104 cells/100 µl per well), followed by 24h incubation at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO2.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then mixtures were added to 2.5 × 105 HEK293T cells expressing ACE2 and incubated at 4 °C for another hour.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: NCBI_Iran Cat# C498, 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">The data was analyzed using GraphPad Prism 8.0.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The half-maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50) were determined using 4-parameter logistic regression (GraphPad Prism version 8).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All of these data were analyzed using FlowJo.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A suitable template was obtained through a BLAST search of the Protein Databank (PDB).</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: We did not detect 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 pages 34, 27, 28 and 29. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: The protocols were approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal Experiments of the HVRI of CAAS or Institutional Committee for Animal Care and Biosafety at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All animals used in this study were chosen randomly.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2/HRB26/human/2020/CHN (HRB26M, GISAID access no. EPI_ISL_459910) was obtained by serially passaging the HRB26 virus in 4–6-week-old female mice until passage 14 and was propagated in Vero E6 cells.</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: Mycoplasma testing was performed at regular intervals and no mycoplasma contamination was 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 blocked with 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA), cells were stained with anti-PEDV (SADS-CoV, or PDCoV) N polyclonal antibody (Wen’ s Foodstuffs Group Co., Ltd, China) (1:1000) at 37°C for 1 h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-PEDV</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were then washed with 1 × PBS and incubated with fluoresceinisothiocyanate (FITC) (1:500) or Cy3-labeled goat anti-mouse secondary antibody (KPL, USA) (1:500) at 37°C for 1 h.</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">Infectious virus titers were determined by using a plaque forming unit (PFU) assay 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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Confluent Vero or IPEC-J2 cell monolayers in 12-well plate were inoculated with various concentrations of HHT (1-1000nM) or the control normal DMEM for 1 h, followed by infection with PEDV, SADS-CoV, or PDCoV at an MOI of 0.1 or 0.01 for 1 h, and then the viral inoculums was removed and fresh maintenance medium containing different concentrations of HHT was added.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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">In vivo antiviral studies of HHT at HVRI in Harbin: The mice for this study, 6-week-old female BALB/c, were obtained from Beijing Charles River Labs (Beijing, China).</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></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.
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Study approval: The study was approved by the Internal Review Board of Hannover Medical School (MHH, approval number 3639_2017, 8973_BO-K_2020, 9226_BO_K_2020, 9255_BO_K_2020, 9459_BO_K_2020) and University Medicine Göttingen (approval number SeptImmun Study 25/4/19 Ü).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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:
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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">Detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: The detection of the antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (genus: Betacoronavirus, family: Coronaviridae) using IIFT was performed with anti-IgG-, anti-IgA- and anti-IgM-FITC-labelled secondary antibodies on infected Vero E6 cells fixed in acetone-methanol16,17.</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-IgG-,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IgA-</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IgM-FITC-labelled</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA (IgG) and Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA (IgA) are based on the S1 domain of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 as antigen, including the immunologically relevant receptor binding domain (RBD), to detect anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG and IgA antibodies, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA (IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 ELISA (IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Anti-SARS-CoV-2 QuantiVac ELISA (IgG) was used for quantitative detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies by means of a 6-point calibration curve.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 QuantiVac ELISA (IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Anti-SARS-CoV-2 NCP ELISA (IgG) and Anti-SARS-CoV-2 NCP ELISA (IgM) are based on a modified nucleocapsid protein (NCP) as antigen to detect anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG and IgM antibodies, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 NCP ELISA (IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 NCP ELISA (IgM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgM</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">Detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: The detection of the antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (genus: Betacoronavirus, family: Coronaviridae) using IIFT was performed with anti-IgG-, anti-IgA- and anti-IgM-FITC-labelled secondary antibodies on infected Vero E6 cells fixed in acetone-methanol16,17.</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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.16.21255606: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We performed the calibration using the “Latin Hypercube Sampling” algorithm [45], which is implemented in the python package “Spotpy” [25].</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.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Like other simulation studies, our analysis has several limitations. First, our model does not contain a representation of contacts between households or agents that do no take place in one of the implemented locations, e.g., contacts with relatives or friends. Second, our model does not contain locations were people meet during spare time. However, the influence of both points is mitigated because private contacts and leisure activities were reduced to a minimum in the observed period. A further limitation is that we do not model changes of people’s behavior. For example, we do not take into account the change in caution about infection risks in daily life or the obligation to keep distance and wear masks inside buildings. Also beyond the scope of this paper is the inclusion of external influences. Instead, we simulate a closed system. After the initial infections at the beginning of a run no infections occur due to agents coming home from “outside”, e.g., commuters or tourists. As many other simulation studies, we had to estimate some parameters due to a lack of empirical data. However, we conducted a series of robustness checks for the most important of those parameters (cf. Figures 5-9 in SI). Sensitivity analyses suggest that the results are robust to changes in the parameters and, hence, to potential errors in assumed values. Despite those limitations, we provide a reproducible model based on empirical agents which can be adopted and/or extended (Python code freely avai...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Clinical Hospital (approval number: 31314220.5.0000.0068).<br>Consent: The consent form was signed digitally by all adolescents and their legal guardians before the beginning of the survey.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has limitations, however. First, the cross-sectional design does not allow inferring causative relationships between lifestyle changes and pandemic. Second, the use of self-reported questionnaire may reflect in some degree of imprecision on data reporting. Third, the relatively low number of patients for each disease did not allow for disease-specific sub-analysis. Finally, as a result of the suspension of face-to-face health care in our tertiary hospital (which was adapted to accommodate 1,000 hospital beds exclusively for COVID-19),(Miethke-Morais, et al., 2020) patients’ attendance to in-hospital sessions were not possible, limiting the assessment of more in-depth clinical variables. In conclusion, adolescents with chronic conditions exposed to social distancing measures due to COVID-19 pandemic showed substantial changes in lifestyle. The findings from this study stress the need for specific care for these patients to mitigate poor eating habits and excessive sedentary behavior.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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 blocked with Odyssey Blocking Buffer in PBS (Li-COR) and incubated with the following primary antibodies diluted in Odyssey Antibody Diluent (Li-COR): anti-IFITM1 (60074-1-Ig; Proteintech), anti-IFITM2 (66137-1-Ig; Proteintech), anti-IFITM3 (EPR5242, ab109429; Abcam), anti-actin (C4, sc-47778; Santa Cruz Biotechnology), anti-hACE2 (ab15348; Abcam), and anti-CoV Spike (PA1-41165; Thermo Fisher).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IFITM1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IFITM2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-IFITM3</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab109429, RRID:AB_10865792)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EPR5242</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-actin</div><div>suggested: (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Cat# sc-47778, RRID:AB_626632)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C4</div><div>suggested: (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Cat# sc-47778 HRP, RRID:AB_2714189)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CoV</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">HeLa-ACE2, HeLa-ACE2-TMPRSS2, HeLa-DPP4, and A549-ACE2 cell lines were produced by transducing cells with lentivirus packaging pWPI encoding ACE2, DPP4, or TMPRSS2 and selecting with blasticidin.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-ACE2-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HeLa IFITM1/2/3 Knockout (C5-9) cells were purchased from ATCC (CRL-3452).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa IFITM1/2/3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, HEK293T cells were transfected with 2 μg pcDNA3.1 and CoV, CoV-2, or MERS Spike using Lipofectamine2000 (Thermo Fisher).</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">Supernatants were harvested 24 hours later and titers were determined on plaque assays performed 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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, six million 293T cells were seeded in a T75 flask.</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">50 ng p25 equivalent of virus was added to HeLa-ACE2 cells for 2 hours.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></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
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Thirty-six female K18-hACE2 mice (Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA) were infected intranasally under isoflurane anesthesia with 300 FFU of SARS-CoV-2 strain MUC-IMB-1 p.1 in a total volume of 50 μl.</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">48-72 hours post-transfection, cells were harvested without trypsin treatment, washed in FACS buffer (PBS with 0.5% bovine serum albumin and 1 nmol sodium azide) and used for binding assays or frozen in aliquots at −70°C. 105 thawed or freshly transfected cells were incubated first in wells of a 96-well plate with 100μl undiluted hybridoma supernatant or 100 μl mouse serum (1:200 dilutions in R10+ medium), and bound antibodies were detected with a mix of Cy5-conjugated goat anti-pan-mouse IgG-Cy5 conjugated goat anti-mouse (Southern Biotechnology, Birmingham, USA, #SBA-1030-15) antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-pan-mouse IgG-Cy5</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse (Southern Biotechnology,</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, 105 cells were fixed for 20 min in 2% paraformaldehyde (Morphisto, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) diluted in PBS, washed twice with FACS buffer, resuspended in permeabilization buffer (0.5% Saponin Sigma Aldrich, Taufkirchen, Germany, in FACS buffer) containing fluorochrome-conjugated murine H and L isotype-specific antibodies (antimouse IgG1-APC # 550874 and anti-mouse IgG3-bio # 020620 from BD, Franklin Lakes, USA, antimouse IgG2b-PE SBA-1090-09 and anti-mouse IgG2c-bio SBA-1079-08 from Southern Biotech, Birmingham, USA, anti-mouse Ig light chain lambda APC # 407306 and anti-mouse IgG light chain kappa PE both from Biolegend, San Diego, USA) and incubated for 1 hour at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antimouse IgG1-APC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG3-bio</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antimouse IgG2b-PE SBA-1090-09</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG2c-bio</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse Ig light chain lambda APC</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 407306, RRID:AB_961363)</div></div><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">Competitional binding in the ELISA set up was achieved by applying 50 μl/well of 0.25 μg/ml human ACE2-Biotin (Acro Biosystems, Beijing, China, # A011-214) followed by 50 μl/well serially 2-fold pre-diluted TRES antibodies (2 μg/ml start concentration).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2-Biotin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 1 hour the cells were washed, and a goat anti-human IgG FITC (Jackson ImmunoResearch, West Grove, USA #109-096-088) antibody was applied.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG FITC</div><div>suggested: (Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs Cat# 109-096-088, RRID:AB_2337666)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The cells were incubated for 30min on ice, washed, and bound antibodies were detected with a mouse IgG2a Alexa647-conjugated antibody directed against human IgG-Fc (BioLegend, San Diego, USA #409320).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>mouse IgG2a</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 409320, RRID:AB_2563330)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human IgG-Fc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">TRES6 and TRES328 antibodies were incubated for one hour at a concentration of 200 ng/ml with 2×106 TCID50 of the CoV2-ER1 virus.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TRES6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TRES328</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 infected cells were visualized using SARS-CoV-2 S protein specific immunochemistry staining with anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S1 antibody (Abcam, Cambridge, Great Britain) as described previously [64].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein S1</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab273074, RRID:AB_2847846)</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">Mice were boosted intramuscularly either with i) 5 μg of the S protein of SARS-CoV-2 stabilized in a pre-fusion conformation (designated SARS-CoV-2-S protein) and adjuvanted with 25 μg Monophosphoryl Lipid A (MPLA) liposomes (Polymun Scientific GmbH, Klosterneuburg, Austria) into the hind leg, ii) by electroporation of the DNA vaccines used for priming, or iii) with exosomes purified from HEK-293T cells transiently transfected with SARS-CoV-2 DNA as described previously [38].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T</div><div>suggested: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 1018, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, 2×108 spleen cells and inguinal lymph node cells (about 1×108 B cells) were mixed with 108 Sp2/0 cells and washed 3 times with RPMI1640 medium (Gibco, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, USA) without FCS. 2 ml PEG was added dropwise within one minute to the suspended cell pellet.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sp2/0</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The S protein was purified from transiently transfected HEK-293F cells as described previously [59].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Generation of escape mutants: 5×106 Vero-E6 cells were seeded on the day before infection in T175 flasks.</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">Mice: The TRIANNI C57/Bl6 mouse line HHKKLL was established in cooperation with TRIANNI (Patent US 2013/0219535 A1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57/Bl6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Thirty-six female K18-hACE2 mice (Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA) were infected intranasally under isoflurane anesthesia with 300 FFU of SARS-CoV-2 strain MUC-IMB-1 p.1 in a total volume of 50 μl.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>K18-hACE2</div><div>suggested: RRID:IMSR_GPT:T037657)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">EC50 values were calculated by plotting hACE2 activity against antibody concentrations and applying a 4-parameter curve fit using GraphPad Prism 7.02 (San Diego, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The consensus sequences were analyzed using VDJsolver [60] and IMGT/V-Quest [61].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IMGT/V-Quest</div><div>suggested: (IMGT/V-QUEST, RRID:SCR_010749)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: Animals and virus infections: Animal work was approved by the local University of Liverpool Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body and performed under UK Home Office Project Licence</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Animals were randomly assigned into multiple cohorts.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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">Cell culture and virus: A PANGO lineage B strain of strain of SARS-CoV-2 (hCoV-2/human/Liverpool/REMRQ0001/2020) cultured from a nasopharyngeal swab from a patient, was passaged in Vero E6 cells (Patterson et al., 2020).</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">Titres were determined by an influenza plaque assay using MDCK cells (Clark et al., 2021).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MDCK</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice carrying the human ACE2 gene under the control of the keratin 18 promoter (K18-hACE2; formally B6.Cg-Tg(K18-ACE2)2Prlmn/J) were purchased from Jackson Laboratories.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>B6.Cg-Tg(K18-ACE2)2Prlmn/J</div><div>suggested: RRID:IMSR_JAX:034860)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study protocol was approved by independent ethics committee.<br>Consent: All the patients provided written informed consent prior to study enrolment.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 and Conduct: This was a multi-center, randomized, parallel group, comparative, open label, clinical study to evaluate efficacy and safety of PNB001 in patients with moderate COVID-19 infection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</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 the statistical analyses were performed using SAS 9.2 or higher version software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS</div><div>suggested: (SASqPCR, RRID:SCR_003056)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Strengths and limitations of this study: This randomized clinical study assessed the comparative efficacy and safety PNB001+SOC versus SOC using comprehensive clinical endpoints in moderate COVID-19 patients. We consider that our findings are of high significance as the screened patients underwent randomization, and the baseline characteristics were similar between the treatment arms. All assessed parameters showed significant benefit or favored PNB001+SOC arm. There were a few limitations to the study. The total number of patients enrolled in the study was low, however the number was based on regulatory recommendation during approval. Study was designed as an open label study however since open label was the requirement from the regulatory agency and since endpoints were mostly objective it is unlikely to have biased the endpoint assessment. Three patients (one in treatment and two in control) had to be discontinued due to worsening of clinical condition while another 2 withdrew after randomization into the study, however, this was essential to comply with the protocol.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by Ziv Medical Center’s ethics committee (approval number: 0133–20-ZIV).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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">, Nucleocapsid (N) IgG antibody levels were measured in consenting workers, using a highly sensitive and specific SARS-CoV-2 IgG qualitative assay (Abbott, Abbot Park, US) (10), followed by a quantitative LIAISON SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG PCR test (DiaSorin, Saluggia, Italy) for verification purposes (10).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Nucleocapsid ( N ) IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All the individuals with detectable IgG antibodies at baseline and/or evidence of a previous positive PCR test SARS-CoV-2 were considered previously infected.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>detectable IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-SARS-CoV2 spike IgG antibody levels were compared among groups of ZMC workers according to the number of doses received (1 or 2) and their infection status (uninfected, infected prior to vaccination, infected after vaccination).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV2 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">, Nucleocapsid (N) IgG antibody levels were measured in consenting workers, using a highly sensitive and specific SARS-CoV-2 IgG qualitative assay (Abbott, Abbot Park, US) (10), followed by a quantitative LIAISON SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG PCR test (DiaSorin, Saluggia, Italy) for verification purposes (10).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.21255591: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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">Seasonal coronavirus detection includes seasonal human coronaviruses HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1 and does not include human coronaviruses SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HCoV-NL63</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_RW88)</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 was performed using GraphPad Prism 9.0.2 (Graph-Pad</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">Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, the Territories and Saskatoon Laboratories.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Joseph’s 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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  We recognise one potential limitation of this study is that laboratories and hospitals may have become overburdened with implementing large scale testing for SARS-CoV-2 leading to changes in testing and reporting mechanisms for seasonal respiratory viruses compared to previous years. Although, importantly, we did not note a decrease in the total number of laboratory tests performed for each of the seasonal respiratory viruses studied during the pandemic compared to baseline. Indeed, early in the pandemic an apparent increase in the total number of tests performed for each virus of interest was observed (supplemental figure S4). However, it is likely that, compared to previous seasons, variation in testing practices by regional and local laboratories, such as increased periodic community testing, combined influenza/SARS-CoV-2 testing and increased testing for influenza and other seasonal respiratory viruses may have occurred during the 2020/2021 season. Moreover, it is worth noting that approaches for population testing of SARS-CoV-2 and non-SARS-CoV-2 viruses also differed, with testing of SARS-CoV-2 being much more community-based in comparison to other respiratory virus testing. Finally, observed decreases in influenza virus detection may also be related, in part, to population changes in influenza vaccine uptake for the 2020/2021 season. On review of overall vaccine coverage data from the Canadian Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage Survey,32 uptake by adults aged over...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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  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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The current study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Hospital Clínico Universitario INCLIVA (</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Patients and specimens: In this prospective observational study, 73 consecutive critically ill COVID-19 patients (51 males and 22 females; median age, 65 years; range, 21 to 80 years) were recruited during ICU stay between October 2020 and February 2021 (Table 1).</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">Depleting experiments using a rabbit anti-N protein antibody (40143-R019; SinoBiological) confirmed the true nature of SARS-CoV-2 N detected in a number of discordant plasma specimens (testing negative by RT-PCR), as described in supplementary methods and shown in Supplementary Fig. 2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-N protein</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">Nucleic acid extraction was performed using a magnetic microparticle-based protocol (Abbott mSample Preparation SystemDNA) on the Abbott m2000sp platform (Abbott Molecular (Des Plaines, IL, USA) with a starting sample volume of 400 µl.</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 analyses were performed using SPSS version 20.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  The main limitations of the current study are the relatively small sample size, the non-negligible number of missing specimens, specially TA, compared with the planned sample collection schedule, and analytical methods which may have underestimated the viral RNAemia and N-antigenemia detection rate. Analysis of sequential specimens from patients could be considered a strength of the research. The current study contributes to filling a knowledge gap on the comparative dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in LRT and in the systemic compartment in ICU patients, and provides further insight into the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this patient subset. In this respect, whether poor clinical outcomes in critically ill patients are directly linked to the extent of virus replication in the LRT, to a dysregulated pro-inflammatory state (cytokine storm) [4,5], or both, remains to be elucidated. In our view, our data fit better with a pathogenetic model, in which SARS-CoV-2 replication in the LRT or its presence in the blood compartment at a certain point over the course of ICU stay might not be a major driver of systemic inflammation, lymphopenia, lung dysfunction, multisystemic organ failure and death. This does not invalidate the importance of virus replication rate in the URT in the early stage after infection in determining the clinical course of COVID-19 [6-8]. Further studies are needed to resolve this issue.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Clinical study: Plasma samples from a cohort of 60 patients with and without ARDS that was determined to be caused by SARS-CoV (approval 30/20 by the National Ethics Committee of Greece; approval IS 021-20 by the National Organization for Medicines of Greece) and from 40 participants in the SAVE trial (suPAR-guided Anakinra treatment for Validation of the risk and Early management of severe respiratory failure by COVID-19; EudraCT number 2020-001466-11; National Ethics Committee approval 38/20; National Organization for Medicines approval ISO 28/20;<br>Consent: Patients were enrolled after written informed consent was provided by themselves or by first-degree relatives in case of patients unable to consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We studied 80 male and female C57Bl6 mice (7-8 weeks old).</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-murine IL-1α antibody Flo1-2a or human IL-1α antibody XB2001, or murine isotype control (XBiotech, TX, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>) anti-murine IL-1α</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-murine</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human IL-1α</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-109-304, RRID:AB_2652396)</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">We studied 80 male and female C57Bl6 mice (7-8 weeks old).</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></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.
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  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.09.21255131: (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">Maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference: We used the subsampled alignment to infer an approximate maximum likelihood (ML) phylogeny using FastTree version 2.2.141 with a generalized time-reversible substitution model with random starting tree seeds.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We estimated the time of most recent common ancestor (tMRCA) for introduction nodes using the bootstrap time-scaled trees inferred in LSD2 via IQ-TREE 2.1.2 with a relaxed molecular clock and 100 bootstrap trees to estimate 95% confidence intervals.</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:
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: 2.2 Ethical statement: The samples generated and disseminated as part of Projects A and B were approved under a waiver of consent by the University of Washington institutional review board (IRB; STUDY00000408).<br>IRB: 2.2 Ethical statement: The samples generated and disseminated as part of Projects A and B were approved under a waiver of consent by the University of Washington institutional review board (IRB; STUDY00000408).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">To confirm that all reagents arrived safely and that every laboratory could perform the direct RT-PCR method, each laboratory tested a set of eight nucleic acid samples purified from patients with COVID-19 and supplied by UWVL, which included six blinded samples (three positive and three negative), one sample identified positive, and one sample identified negative to serve as controls, plus a laboratory-supplied no-template water control.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Sex as a biological variable</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:
  Although the reproducibility of the method has been reported in single-laboratory studies previously, this study is the first to demonstrate that a globally diverse set of laboratories operating with different equipment, clinical sample collection and handling conditions, resource limitations, and operating practices can successfully implement the method. As described above, when centrally disseminated pooled samples were evaluated with a common Master Mix and primers/probes (Projects A and B), the Propagate partner laboratory results were >99.5% concordant (all negatives and all but one positive correctly identified and strong agreement on Ct values). This result demonstrates the robustness of the methodology. Although all Propagate partner laboratories had prior experience with standard RNA extraction RT-PCR analysis of SARS-CoV-2 test samples, they were able to adopt and implement the direct method on Project A and B samples with only a minimum of instruction (a brief written protocol and a few minutes of discussions via web meeting), showing that the method is easily transferable. Due to halts and delays in air shipments, the partner laboratories in Malawi and Nigeria were unable to receive or analyze the Project A/B sample kits. While this was unfortunate, it is emblematic of the challenges that the African continent (among others) continues to face in receiving needed laboratory supplies and the importance of resource-sensitive methods development efforts such as these....
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.08.21254953: (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 BERT [29] as the model backbone.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BERT</div><div>suggested: (BERT, RRID:SCR_018008)</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:
  This study has several limitations. First, the analyzed dataset has selection bias. Available action tracking reports are all from the time period after April 2021 when there were only sporadic breakouts in China. Reports during the first wave of outbreaks in January and February 2021 are not available, when there are substantially large numbers of confirmed cases, are not available. Therefore, the results of this study are limited with regard to both location and time. Second, because we were only able to collect reports for only a proportion of the confirmed patients, important aspects might have been missed: for example, since reports for international travelers were not available and were therefore excluded from the dataset. Thus, the observation that flight is a relatively safe means of transportation is limited to domestic flights and cannot be extended to international flights. Third, because all data were collected after April 2021 in China, the results and conclusions of this study are limited to the situation where the pandemic is generally well-contained, and mask-wearing and temperature testingare generally adopted. Therefore, the results cannot be readily generalized to situations with high rates of new daily cases. Despite these limitations, this work presents the first attempt to analyze the detailed action reports of confirmed cases with comprehensive tracking information, and captures important aspects of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, such as community location...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.440004: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
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  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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 two washes in D-BSA, cells were incubated with a fluorescently labelled goat anti-rabbit antibody (Molecular Probes) at a dilution of 1:1000 for 1 h at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</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 datasets are composed as following: human lung biopsies of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients and uninfected control; A549 cell line infected with SARS-CoV-2, A549 cell line infected with SARS-CoV-2 overexpressing ACE2, Calu-3 cells infected with SARS-CoV-2; NHBE cell line infected with SARS-CoV-2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-3</div><div>suggested: KCLB Cat# 30055, RRID:CVCL_0609)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Caco-2 cells stably expressing human ACE2 were generated by transduction with third generation lentivirus pLenti7.3 ACE2-EGFP, where the expression of EGFP if guided by an internal ribosome entry site downstream of the ACE2 coding sequence in the same messenger RNA.</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">All cells were grown in DMEM media supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS), pen/strep, L-glutamine, and passaged 1:10 (HEK-293T-ACE2-TMPRSS2) or 1:6 (Caco-2-ACE2), every three days.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco-2-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The virus was propagated once in Calu-1 cells and once in VeroE6-TMPRSS2 cells before sequencing and storage at −80 °C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Calu-1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus titers were determined by plaque assay in VeroE6 TMPRSS2 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroE6 TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">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">RNA-Seq data preprocessing: Human transcriptomics datasets analysed in this study were retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository, annotated with the GEO ID GSE147507 (Blanco-Melo et al., 2020; Daamen et al., 2021).</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">Filtered counts were then normalized through the upper quartile method implemented in the NOISeq package.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NOISeq</div><div>suggested: (NOISeq, RRID:SCR_003002)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential expression analysis was carried out by using the DESeq2 Bioconductor package (Love et al., 2014) and the p values were adjusted using the Benjamini-Hochberg method (Benjamini and Hochberg, 1995).</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><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">Outliers were identified by using the RLE, NUSE from the affyPLM package (2005) and the slope of the RNA degradation curve implemented in the affy package (Gautier et al., 2004).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>affyPLM</div><div>suggested: (affyPLM, RRID:SCR_001319)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>affy</div><div>suggested: (affy, RRID:SCR_012835)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The probes were annotated to Ensembl genes (by using the rat2302rnensgcdf (v. 22.0.0) annotation file from the brainarray website4, and the resulting expression matrix was quantile normalized by using the normalizeQuantile function from the limma package.</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">DrugBank (Wishart et al., 2006, 2018) contains 13579 drug entries, including 2635 approved small molecule drugs, and over 6375 experimental drugs.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DrugBank</div><div>suggested: (DrugBank, RRID:SCR_002700)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For the 8775 matched compounds, substructure fingerprints were retrieved from PubChem by querying it by CID identifiers.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubChem</div><div>suggested: (PubChem, RRID:SCR_004284)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We created an augmentation pipeline containing 7 main transformations where each transformation instance is applied with a probability of 0.5 implemented using the Numpy scientific programming library and the Pillow package10 for Python (Harris et al., 2020).</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>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.15.439918: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</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 assays were incubated in a thermocycler maintained at 65 °C for 60 min following which endpoint OSD fluorescence was imaged using a ChemiDoc camera (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.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.14.439928: (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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, TCID50 assay was performed using Vero C1008 cells prepared in 96-well microtitre plates to achieve confluent monolayers on the day of assay.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero C1008</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 data were graphically represented and statistically analysed 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></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:
  No conflict of interest statement was detected. If there are no conflicts, we encourage authors to explicit state so.
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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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: All mouse experiments were carried out in accordance with guidelines prescribed by the Ethics Committee for the use of laboratory animals for research purposes at the University of Verona and by the Italian Ministry of Health.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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">Flow cytometry: Human and mouse DCs were stained with the following antibodies from Miltenyi Biotec or as specified: Vioblue-conjugated anti-human CD86 (clone FM95, Miltenyi Biotec), PE-conjugated anti-human CD83 (clone REA714), FITC-conjugated anti-human BDCA2 (clone AC144), APC-conjugated anti-human CCR7 (clone REA546), VioGreen-conjugated anti-mouse CD45 (clone REA737), VioBlue or FITC-conjugated anti-mouse MHCII (clone REA564), PerCP-Vio 700-conjugated anti-mouse CD11c (clone REA754), PE-conjugated anti-mouse SiglecH (clone 551.3D3), PE-Vio 615-conjugated anti-mouse CD11b (clone REA592), VioBlue-conjugated anti-mouse CD8a (cloneREA601), PE-Vio 770-conjugated anti-mouse B220 (clone RA3-6B2), PE-conjugated anti-mouse CD40 (clone REA965), FITC-conjugated anti-mouse CD40 (clone HM40-3, Biolegend) and APC-CY7-conjugated anti-mouse CD86 (clone GL-1, Biolegend).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human CD86</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human CD83</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 334098, RRID:AB_2074438)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human BDCA2</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-090-510, RRID:AB_244167)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human CCR7</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD45</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse MHCII</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD11c</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse SiglecH</div><div>suggested: (Creative Diagnostics Cat# CABT-35771RM, RRID:AB_2356706)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD11b</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 559971, RRID:AB_10053179)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD8a</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse B220</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD40</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD86</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">RAW264.7 cells were purchased from American Type Culture Collection and cultured in DMEM complemented with 10% FBS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RAW264.7</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NF-κB luciferase reporter assay: TLR-specific activation assays were performed using human HEK293 cells expressing luciferase under control of the NF-κB promoter and stably transfected with human TLR7 and TLR8 as previously described (21).</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">HEK293-transfected cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS and specific antibiotics were added.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293-transfected</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">Sex and age matched C57Bl6/J mice were obtained by Charles River Laboratories and housed in the specific pathogen-free animal facility of the Department of Medicine, University of Verona.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57Bl6/J</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MyD88−/− mice were kindly provided by S. Akira (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MyD88−/−</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">These sequences were checked for uniqueness with BLAST in the database RefSeq Genome Database (refseq_genomes) within the RNA viruses (taxid: 2559587).</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">Samples were read on a MACSQuant Analyzer (Miltenyi Biotec) and analysed with FlowJo (Tree Star Inc.).</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">The SsoAdvanced Universal SYBR Green Supermix (Bio-Rad Laboratories) was used according to the manufacturer’s instructions.</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">Statistical analysis: Statistical significance among the experimental groups was determined using paired or unpaired Student’s t test or one-way ANOVA with Dunnet’s post-hoc test (GraphPad Prism 7, GraphPad Software) as indicated in each figure legend.</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.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.12.21255098: (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 antigens include Sars-Cov2 epitopes presented by a diverse set of MHC class I as well as MHC class II alleles, thus capturing response by CD8+ and CD4+ T-cells Data analysis and visualization: All visualization and standard statistical analysis were conducted using R version 4.0.3 and Python 3.9.1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plots were generated using the ggplot2 R package 32</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">Illustrations were prepared with the BioRender package.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioRender</div><div>suggested: (Biorender, RRID:SCR_018361)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Differential gene expression analysis of TRBV genes was conducted using the EdgeR package 33.</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></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.
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