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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254973

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254973: (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: Ethics: Ethical approval for this study was granted by Keele University’s Research Ethics Committee (reference: PS-200129).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Analyses were conducted in SPSS 26.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations to this study include that we measured self-reported intention rather than actual uptake. Intention is usually higher than uptake; however, vaccine intention predicts vaccine uptake and so acts as a useful proxy in the early stages of vaccination rollout. Also, the survey is cross-sectional, so we are unable to infer causality between attitudinal factors and intention. To our knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed study investigating intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in a demographically representative sample of the UK population since the COVID-19 vaccination rollout began in December 2020. Three-quarters of our sample reported being very likely to have the COVID-19 vaccination. However, since vaccine uptake may well be lower than vaccine intention, it is important to understand the factors associated with intention and to ensure that communication and engagement strategies related to the vaccination are informed by those factors. Going forward, it is not yet known for how long COVID-19 vaccines confer immunity or how effective they will continue to be against emerging strains as the virus mutates and, consequently, whether booster vaccines may be required [24]. In order to ensure the success of the current vaccination rollout and any subsequent vaccination waves, our findings underline the importance of ongoing clear communication informed by theoretical constructs related to COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and attitudes, and the need for such communi...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254996

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254996: (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: All study material and procedures underwent Human Subjects Research review by the New York University Institutional Review Board and were determined to be exempt, and the need for explicit written or oral consent was also waived (IRB-FY2020–4285).<br>Consent: All study material and procedures underwent Human Subjects Research review by the New York University Institutional Review Board and were determined to be exempt, and the need for explicit written or oral consent was also waived (IRB-FY2020–4285).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Analyses were conducted in SPSS (Version 21; Armonk, NY).</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:
  However, we do acknowledge some limitations. First, the study recruitment was comprised mainly of a convenience sample of online social media users. Although 70% of Americans use Facebook,47 certain demographic groups may have been underrepresented. Nevertheless, a recent systematic review has identified Facebook as a useful tool in shortening recruitment periods, reducing costs, and enhancing representation of target populations.20 Second, people with low socioeconomic status and poor access to computer or internet connection (11.2%-19.6%)48 at home also may have been underrepresented in this study. Although we tried to recruit racial and ethnic minorities,18 we do acknowledge that our sample was predominantly white and not representative of the United States population. However, a mitigating factor is that we had respondents from every state, age group and sex. Unfortunately, given social distancing regulations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, online data collection is one of the few platforms that is available. Third, our data regarding sleep was limited only to a single self-reported question on changes in sleep duration. It is therefore relatively non-specific and carries the risk of recall bias. In addition, we lack information on COVID-19 infection status for study participants; this maybe important information since sleep disturbances can be a consequence of viral infection. Lastly, our analyses were cross-sectional, and thus causality cannot be inferred. In summary, ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438818

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.07.438818: (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: Sample donors: Samples from a SARS-CoV-2 recovered individual, designated as donor X (male, 52 years-old), was obtained 75 days after symptoms onset under study protocols approved by the local Institutional Review Boards (Canton Ticino Ethics Committee, Switzerland, the Ethical committee of Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy).<br>Consent: The donor provided written informed consent for the use of blood and blood components (e.g. PBMCs, sera or plasma).<br>IACUC: Housing conditions and experimental procedures were approved by the ethical committee of animal experimentation of KU Leuven (license P065-2020).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sample donors: Samples from a SARS-CoV-2 recovered individual, designated as donor X (male, 52 years-old), was obtained 75 days after symptoms onset under study protocols approved by the local Institutional Review Boards (Canton Ticino Ethics Committee, Switzerland, the Ethical committee of Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy).</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">goat anti-human IgG secondary antibody (Southern Biotech, 2040-04) was added and incubated for 1 h at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>goat anti-human IgG secondary antibody</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 2040-04, RRID:AB_2795643)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">One day post-transfection, cells were infected with VSV (G*ΔG-luciferase) and after 2 h, infected cells were washed four times with DMEM before adding medium supplemented with anti-VSV-G antibody (I1-mouse hybridoma supernatant diluted 1 to 50, from CRL-2700, ATCC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>G*ΔG-luciferase</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-VSV-G</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell lines: Cell lines used in this study were obtained from ATCC (HEK293T, Vero and Vero-E6), ThermoFisher Scientific (Expi CHO cells, FreeStyle™ 293-F cells and Expi293F™ cells) or were generated via lentiviral transduction (Expi CHO-S, HEK293T-ACE2).</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>293-F</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For neutralization, stable 293T cells expressing ACE257 in DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS, 1% PenStrep were seeded at 40,000 cells/well into clear bottom white walled 96-well plates and cultured overnight at 37°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_H376)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Vero E6 cells were seeded into black-walled, clear-bottom 96-well plates at 2 x 104 cells/well and cultured overnight 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: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell-surface mAb-mediated S1 shedding: CHO cells stably expressing wild-type SARS-CoV-2 S were resuspended in wash buffer (PBS 1 % BSA, 2 mM EDTA) and treated with 10 µg/mL TPCK-trypsin (Worthington Biochem) for 30 min at 37°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After a 15-minute incubation, Jurkat cells stably expressing FcγRIIIa receptor (V158 variant) or FcγRIIa receptor (H131 variant) and NFAT-driven luciferase gene (effector cells) were added at an effector to target ratio of 6:1 for FcγRIIIa and 5:1 for FcγRIIa.</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">Escape clones were plaque-purified on Vero cells in the presence of mAb, and plaques in agarose plugs were amplified on MA104 cells with the mAb present in the medium.</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">The following sequences were retrieved from GISAID and NCBI: A021 (AAV97986.1); HKU3 (QND76020.1); WIV1 (AGZ48831.1); Rs3367 (AGZ48818.1); Anlong-112 (ARI44804.1); RsSHC014 (AGZ48806.1); Rs4081 (AGZ48798.1); YN2013 (AIA62330.1); Rs4874 (ATO98205.1); Rs4255 (ATO98193.1); Rs4231 (ATO98157.1); Rs4084 (ATO98132.1); ZXC21 (AVP78042.1); SC2018 (QDF43815.1); ZC45 (AVP78031.1); Rp/Shaanxi2011 (AGC74165.1); Rm1/2004 (ABD75332.1); Rf1-2004 (ABD75323.1); Rf4092 (ATO98145.1); BM48-31/BGR/2008 (YP_003858584.1); LYRa11 (AHX37558.1); RaTG13 (QHR63300.2); PC4-127 (AAU93318.1); CS24 (ABF68959.1); SARS-CoV2 (YP_009724390.1); LYRa3 (AHX37569.1); Cp/Yunnan2011 (AGC74176.1); SARS coronavirus Urbani (AAP13441.1); As6526 (ATO98108.1); BtkY72 (APO40579.1); RmYN02 (EPI_ISL_412977); Pangolin_Guangdong-2019 (EPI_ISL_410721); Pangolin-Guanxi-2017 (EPI_ISL_410539).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pangolin_Guangdong-2019</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pangolin-Guanxi-2017</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">VSV-based pseudotype virus production and neutralization assay: SARS-CoV-2 S (CAD0240757.1), RaTG13 S (QHR63300.2), Pangolin-Guangdong S(QLR06867.1), Pangolin-Guanxi S (QIA48623.1)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RaTG13 S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sarbecovirus sequence analysis and SARS-CoV-2 mutant counts: Alignment and phylogenetic tree of the strains within the sarbecovirus subgenus was generated using MEGA 7.0.26 and CLC Main workbench 21.0.3 (Qiagen).</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Variants were then extracted as compared to the reference with R 4.0.2 (https://www.r-project.org/) using Biostrings 2.56.0.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Biostrings</div><div>suggested: (Biostrings, RRID:SCR_016949)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 30 min incubation, absorbance at 405 nm was measured by a plate reader (Biotek) and data plotted using Prism GraphPad.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Measurements were done in duplicate, RLU values were converted to percentage of neutralization and plotted with a nonlinear regression curve fit in Graph Prism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graph Prism</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were plotted in Prism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Response values were exported and plotted using GraphPad Prism.</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">Particle images from each dataset were subjected to Bayesian polishing72 using Relion before merging them to perform another round of non-uniform refinement in cryoSPARC followed by per-particle defocus refinement and again non-uniform refinement.</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></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: 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:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.07.438811: (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">22 h post-infection, cells were fixed, permeabilised and stained for SARS-CoV-2 N-protein using Alexa488-labelled-CR3009 antibody [53] and nuclei using DRAQ5 (647 nm wavelength).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DRAQ5</div><div>suggested: (Biostatus Cat# DR50050, RRID:AB_2314341)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Baculoviruses were generated and amplified in Sf9 cells (Thermo Fisher Scientific) using the EMBacY baculoviral genome (Trowitzsch et al., J Struct Biol, 2010).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sf9</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, VERO E6 cells were grown in 96 well imaging plates and transfected with individual gapmers at 0.5 μM using Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermofisher).</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">Percent activity for each log10 of the concentration of NSC95397 (μM) were then used to estimate the IC50 and Hill slopes of NSC95397 for nsp15 endoribonuclease using GraphPad Prism.</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 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">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">The His-TEV bacterial sequence was codon optimized (Table S2) and cloned into plasmid pET11a at NdeI/BamHI sites (synthesised and cloned by GeneWiz) (Addgene ID 169192).</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">Data analysis: MATLAB was used to process data (more details in nsp13 paper in this issue) Gel-based assay: 0.5 μM of enzyme was pre-incubated with the selected inhibitor drugs for 10 minutes.</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">Data Availability Statement: All data in this paper can be found in FigShare (https://figshare.com/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FigShare</div><div>suggested: (FigShare, RRID:SCR_004328)</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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Vienna (EK Number 1388/2020).<br>Consent: Interviews were audio-recorded with or without video images depending on 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">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:
  Even if the resources and capabilities exist use digital tools and telehealth, specific limitations must be considered by health professionals. The personal presence of health professionals and trusted people in delivering bad news with severe consequences for patients’ health was considered an essential aspect of care. Public health interventions in a pandemic benefit from an effective bilateral, bottom-up and top-down information stream. While individuals’ perspectives are essential to tailor interventions to their needs, clear downstream information with specific channels for certain communities could best utilise patient representatives’ roles. Testing and vaccination campaigns, if organised, could also benefit from well-informed, engaged patients and patient representatives. Moreover, making perspectives, motivations and unmet needs explicit and transparent could help overcome stigmatisation and decrease social exclusion [29]. The variation and diversity elicited in our study is a strength and limitation at the same time. While we uncovered a considerable range of experiences between and within individuals and countries, several similarities emerged. Quantitative work needs to follow up to determine the frequencies of these experiences.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.438904

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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: Ex vivo IFN-γ ELISpots in SARS-CoV-2 recovered donors: Cryopreserved PBMCs were used from SARS-CoV-2 recovered donors recruited into the Sepsis Immunomics study with ethical approval from the South Central -Oxford C Research Ethics Committee in England (Ref 13/SC/0149).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">First, one sequence per country per epi week was selected randomly, followed by random sampling of the remaining sequences to generate a sample of 4000 down-sampled sequences.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Each sequence was translated and compared to reference (MN908947.3) using custom python scripts (Python 3.7.6) utilising Biopython (version 1.78).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Biopython</div><div>suggested: (Biopython, RRID:SCR_007173)</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:
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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 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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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438866

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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">The infectious virus was recovered at the respective time point in 2 mL DMEM supplemented with 5% FBS, filtered through 0.45 μm syringe filter (TPP, Trasadingen, Switzerland) and titrated on Vero E6 cells (Table 2).</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">Log-transformed virus titers in nasal mucus, sputum, saliva, tears, urine, blood, semen, and positive control were incorporate to estimate a simple linear regression in Prism 9 (GraphPad, San Diego, CA, 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">Significant difference between liquid and surface settings was tested using default analysis which is compatible to analysis of covariance in GraphPad Prism 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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, the limitations of this approach are that the content of organic matter is dependent on the type of biological fluids and that fluids contain substances which could be beneficial or harmful for virus survival. These drawbacks led to new approaches to test SARS-CoV-2 stability in biological fluids, such as human nasal mucus, sputum, fecal suspension and urine [18, 19]. In the present study, we determined the potential risk of biological fluids to spread SARS-CoV-2 by testing its stability in nine human biological fluids from which the virus has been isolated (nasal mucus, sputum, saliva, tears, feces and urine) or detected (breast milk, blood and semen). Generally, SARS-CoV-2 is excreted in biological fluids from infected patients. It can contaminate surfaces and eventually dry on surfaces as the result of water evaporation. The duration of evaporation is dependent on various factors, such as the volume of water and surrounding environmental conditions. Therefore, we evaluated virus stability in various biological fluids using (1) a liquid setting in which the mixture was placed in a sealed tube to prevent evaporation and (2) a surface setting in which the mixture was completely dried on the stainless steel surface. Both beneficial and harmful substances concentrate when dried on the surface, and there is little or no activity of microorganisms, broadly active viral inhibitors, or enzymes due to the lack of water in the surface setting. In the present study, the virus...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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">In Silico Modeling: The S1 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein comprising the receptor binding domain (RBD) was modelled using the SWISS-MODEL server11, the FASTA sequence (residues 316-530) was retrieved from UniProtKB - P0DTC2 and used as a query sequence, PDB ID: 6VSB with 100% sequence identity was used as a template12,13.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UniProtKB</div><div>suggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The SDF structures of the selected FDA-approved drugs were downloaded from Selleck chemicals and PubChem.</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">Ligand and protein preparation was performed using the Ligprep and protein preparation wizard tool on Schrödinger Maestro version 12.2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Maestro</div><div>suggested: (Maestro, RRID:SCR_016748)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.04.08.20205781: (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 was approved by the Institutional Review Board (Ethics Committee) of the Medical Faculty, University Hospital Cologne, Germany (ethical vote no. 20-1638).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">GraphPadPrism 7.0 (GraphPad Software, Inc.) 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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Figures were created using Adobe Illustrator 18.1</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  In our study, different operators performed specimen collection, which could be a limitation of the data, as analyzed by Basso and colleagues. Two different operators collected 70 swabs each and a high variability of test results was observed [38]. This effect should not be underestimated. We developed a feasible pooling procedure that can readily be implemented in diagnostic routines. The preparation for pool testing contained besides extensive technical investigations, also changes in the laboratory logistics and adaptions of the laboratory software. The data communicated here will contribute to the process of finding and implementing a consensus pool testing strategy enabling larger test capacities to effectively combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
  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 10.1101/2021.04.06.438579: (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">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">Formaldehyde fixed cells were washed with phosphate buffered saline and permeabilized for immunofluorescence using 0.1% Triton X-100 in PBS with 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) fraction V (www.emdmillipore.com) and stained for SARS-CoV-2 with a primary anti-Nucleocapsid antibody (www.genetex.com GTX135357) labeled with AlexaFluor 594.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Nucleocapsid</div><div>suggested: (GeneTex Cat# GTX135357, RRID:AB_2868464)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Proteins in VLP and cell lysates were separated on 10% SDS-PAGE gels, transferred to PVDF membranes, and immunoblotted with the following antibodies (Fig 7A): mouse monoclonal anti-V5 tag (www.thermofisher.com, #R960-25), rabbit polyclonal anti-SARS M (generous gift of C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-V5</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# R960-25, RRID:AB_2556564)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Primary antibodies were detected using horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (www.bio-rad.com) or HRP-donkey anti-rabbit IgG (www.bio-rad.com) and Western Clarity detection reagent (www.bio-rad.com).</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-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">SARS-CoV-2 antiviral test of amilorides: Vero E6 and Caco-2 were obtained from ATCC and grown in DMEM (www.corning.com) with 10% FBS, 10mM HEPES, and Penicillin-Streptomycin (www.thermofisher.com).</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">SARS-CoV-2 isolate USA-WA1/2020 (www.beiresources.org) was propagated on Caco-2 cells and infectious units quantified by focus forming assay using Vero E6 (ATCC) 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 cultured in complete Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium containing 10% Fetal Bovine Serum and penicillin-streptomycin.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IC50 and CC50 were determined using the nonlinear regression analysis in GraphPad Prism 9 with the bottom and top parameters constrained to 0 and 100, respectively.</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">Chemiluminescence was detected using a Bio-Rad Chemi Doc imaging system and analyzed using Bio-Rad Image Lab v5.1 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bio-Rad Image</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:
  No conflict of interest statement was detected. If there are no conflicts, we encourage authors to explicit state so.
  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><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 S was detected using a rabbit polyclonal antibody against the S2 domain (Cat: 40590-T62, Sinobiological) and an AlexaFluor 488 goat anti-rabbit antibody.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary antibody labeling was performed using AlexaFluorTM 488 goat anti-rabitt IgG antibody (Cat: A32731, Invitrogen Co.) at a 1/500 dilution for 45 minutes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabitt 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">Pseudoparticle Generation: HEK293T cells were seeded at 3×10e5 cells/ml in a 6 well plate the day before transfection.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudoparticle Infection Assay: Vero E6 and Vero TMPRSS2 cells were seeded at 3e5 cells/ml in a 24 well plate the day before infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell-Cell Fusion Assay: VeroE6 and Vero-TMPRSS2 cells were transfected with a plasmid harboring the spike gene of the SARS-CoV-2 isolate Wuhan-Hu 1, SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant, the SARS-CoV-2 isolate Wuhan-Hu 1 with a P681H mutation, or a delta-spike pCDNA3.1+ plasmid, and evaluated through an immunofluorescence assay (IFA)</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.04.06.438584: (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">Generation of the starting structures: To generate starting structures for wild type, wild type with the D614G mutation (wt+D614G) and B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 we used the protein sequence annotated in UniProt (www.uniprot.org) with the identifier P0DTC2 (SARS-CoV-2; wild-type) and changed the sequence in accordance with the reported deletions (del69-70, del144) for the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UniProt</div><div>suggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Contacts were evaluated with an in-house Perl script parsing the trajectory using the prior named Amber tools and assigning contacts based on a distance criterion of ≤5 Å between any pair of atoms, as it was done previously41.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Amber</div><div>suggested: (AMBER, RRID:SCR_016151)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics and display: Statistical analyses were generated with GraphPad Prism (version 8.0.0 for Windows, GraphPad Software, San Diego, California USA, www.graphpad.com) and statistical tests were applied as indicated below the figure.</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">Plots were generated in GraphPad and Gnuplot (version 4.6).</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>Gnuplot</div><div>suggested: (Gnuplot, RRID:SCR_008619)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27 and 28. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  No conflict of interest statement was detected. If there are no conflicts, we encourage authors to explicit state so.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254174

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254174: (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
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analyses were performed using Stata software version 14.2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Stata</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 further limitations to this work; it has not been possible to definitively differentiate the relative contributions of the reduced ascertainment of GI infections versus a true decrease in GI disease burden in this study, which an additional focussed analysis could address. An additional limitation of this study is that negative results are not captured by the SGSS laboratory surveillance system, therefore it was not possible to determine to what degree the changes were due to changes in testing. We were not able to calculate the positivity rate to assess whether only severe cases were being tested, although evidence from the North East suggested that symptomatology was comparable between 2020 cases and historic cases. Guidance was released in week 13 recommending the cessation of routine culture for non-bloody diarrhoea might be considered if laboratories were struggling to deliver the service [35]. However, by then laboratory confirmed cases were beginning to increase again, while other contemporaneous changes implemented to GI laboratory testing methods, such as the introduction of molecular methods could differentially affect ascertainment of GI pathogens. Furthermore, the smallest decreases in laboratory confirmed GI infections were observed in the North West and North East regions, which had the highest cumulative rates of COVID-19 over this time period [15], suggesting either increased laboratory capacity for both the identification of COVID-19 and GI infectio...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438810

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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: 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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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438807

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.07.438807: (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">Finally, the cells were infected by adding 20 µl of SARS-CoV-2 with a final MOI of 0.5 PFU/cell. 22 h post infection, cells were fixed, permeabilised, and stained for SARS-CoV-2 N protein using Alexa488-labelled-CR3009 antibody and cellular DNA using DRAQ7 (Abcam).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DRAQ7</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">For protein expression, Sf9 cells were infected with baculovirus and collected 48 hours after infection, flash-frozen and stored at −70°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sf9</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The conditions for the viral inhibition assay were the following: 15.000 Vero E6 cells (NIBC, UK) resuspended in DMEM containing 10% FBS were seeded into each well of 96-well imaging plates (Greiner 655090) and cultured overnight at 37°C and 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis: MATLAB was used to process data.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.438884

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.08.438884: (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">IACUC: Mouse vaccination experiments: All experiments were performed in accordance with the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the University of Chicago.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Female 8-week-old C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory) were randomly assigned to cohorts of n = 5 and vaccinated with 10 μg of antigen and 5 μg of adjuvant s.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Female 8-week-old C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory) were randomly assigned to cohorts of n = 5 and vaccinated with 10 μg of antigen and 5 μg of adjuvant s.</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">Wells were then washed five times with PBS-T and incubated for an additional hour at RT with horseradish peroxide (HRP)-conjugated antibodies against mouse IgG, IgG1, IgG2b, IgG3, or IgA (Southern Biotech).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG2b</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA ( Southern Biotech)</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">Suspension-adapted HEK-293F cells were maintained in serum-free Free Style 293 Expression Medium (Gibco).</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">MPLA PS in vitro activity: To determine TLR4 activation, HEK-Blue™ TLR4 cells (Invivogen) were incubated with increasing concentrations of MPLA PS for 24 h 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-Blue™ TLR4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">RBDsurfin vitro activity: For the cell-based hACE2-binding assay, human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293T cells overexpressing human ACE-2 (HEK-hACE2) were obtained from BEI Resources (NIH NIAID)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK)-293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Fluorescently labeled empty PS, RBDsurf, or RBDfree was incubated at varying concentrations with 5 × 104 HEK-hACE2 cells at 4 °C for 20 min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pre-incubated viruses were then applied to Vero-E6 cell monolayers, and the cells were maintained until > 90% cell death for the negative control (4-5 d).</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">Female 8-week-old C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory) were randomly assigned to cohorts of n = 5 and vaccinated with 10 μg of antigen and 5 μg of adjuvant s.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Gels were imaged on a ChemiDoc XRS+ Gel Documentation System (Bio-Rad) and analyzed using ImageJ.</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">RBDsurfin vitro activity: For the cell-based hACE2-binding assay, human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293T cells overexpressing human ACE-2 (HEK-hACE2) were obtained from BEI Resources (NIH NIAID)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NIAID</div><div>suggested: (NIAID, RRID:SCR_016598)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Samples were acquired on a BD LSR-Fortessa (BD) and analyzed using FlowJo™ software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo™</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were subsequently fixed and permeabilized using BD Cytofix/Cytoperm™, and intracellular cytokines were stained using fluorescent-mAbs listed in Supplementary Table 3.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Cytofix/Cytoperm™</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Peptide array analysis: Antibody specificity to linear epitopes of the spike protein was analyzed using a CelluSpots™ Covid19_hullB Peptide Array (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antibody</div><div>suggested: (Antibodypedia, RRID:SCR_012782)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Spots were analyzed using Spotfinder software (version v3.2.1)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Spotfinder</div><div>suggested: (Spotfinder, RRID:SCR_000085)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Software packages and statistical analysis: Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 9 (GraphPad).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All flow cytometry data were analyzed using FlowJo_v10.7.2 software (FlowJo LLC, BD Biosciences).</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">Figures 1 and 2 were created using BioRender (https://biorender.com) as part of an Academic License through the Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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/10.1101/2021.04.05.21254937

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254937: (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: All individuals signed the informed consent form before taking part in this study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2.2 Study design and Population: Between October 10 and 14, 2020, we randomly recruited indigenous residents in the community of Parque das Tribos, the biggest multiethnic urban indigenous community in Manaus.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">2.3 Serological analysis: Serum samples from the study population were tested for SARS-CoV-2 IgA and IgG antibodies (Abs) through an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgA/IgG ELISA-euroimmun, Germany), which was performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions.</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>IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgA/IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Despite the limitation of our data, this study indicates that indigenous peoples living in urban areas are being dramatically affected by SARS-CoV-2, especially because of their poor socioeconomic conditions and lack of access to adequate health assistance. This population is fighting a double battle due to the fact that a) in the Brazilian national health system (SUS), their indigenous identity is not recognized by the patient management system and b) They cannot be assisted by SESAI because they are outside their villages or reservations. Both situations reinforce the invisibility of these populations. Thus, we need coordinated national actions that prioritize ethnic vulnerable groups in the battle against COVID-19. We need public policies that promote health, adequate housing and sanitation for these populations. Otherwise, indigenous people living in urban areas are doomed to suffer on unprecedented levels during the current pandemic.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21253178

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21253178: (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: The study was considered exempt from the institutional review board by the NZ Health and Disabilities Ethics Committees.(26) The data analysis was primarily descriptive and reported as percentages of valid responses.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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:
  As vaccination roll out accelerates, NZ will be monitoring uncertainties such as vaccine uptake, efficacy against variants, prevention of transmission, and vaccine safety in populations such as children and pregnant women.(15, 35) We hypothesize that the experience of individual Emergency Medicine specialists could be surveyed to identify weaknesses in local NZ hospital infection control practice. This questionnaire focuses on retrospective and prospective assessments by EM specialists of their departmental practice for pandemic specific engineering (ventilation, cohorting, streaming, physical distancing), administrative policy (rostering, workflow, training, treatments and procedures), and the use and supply of PPE (scenario specific, transmission based PPE, and fit testing).(13) Questions were translated from prior healthcare worker infection outbreaks, most notably from the Royal Melbourne Hospital campus during July-August 2020.(9, 12, 17) Finally, the research sought to understand how safe EM specialists felt during the initial lockdown and provides insight as to the psychological experiences of this vital group of frontline staff. Engineering controls decrease SARS-CoV-2 transmission by modifications to ventilation, bed allocation, streaming patients and physical distancing of staff. A minimum requirement would provide enough adequately ventilated and sealed negative pressure rooms, or at least negative directional airflow, to allow for treatment of respiratory isolatio...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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/10.1101/2021.04.06.438675

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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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254702

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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  We acknowledge that there are limitations in our analysis. First, we mainly focused on the comparison of NPIs for the first and second waves, as only a small number of countries had experienced the third wave by 25 March 2021 and the most recent wave might involve NPIs together with vaccination. To evaluate the pure effects of NPIs independent of vaccination, we excluded the dates with vaccination in the first and second waves. Meanwhile, the preliminary results of NPI effects in the third wave for a small group of countries are also provided in SI. Second, it should be noted that our study might have underestimated the effectiveness of the vaccination, as we only examined the initial, short-term effect of the first-dose vaccines as of 25 March, but vaccine and infection-induced immunity among populations could last longer, with accumulated long-term effects for reducing transmission. Additionally, some countries/populations have had the second-dose vaccine rollout, which was not estimated in our study, though the proportion of people vaccinated with two doses might be still low. Overall, the disclosure of epidemic, publicized responses and the COVID-19 vaccination data allows us to estimate and compare the cross-wave effects of public health measures at both global and regional scales. Our work provides a quantitative basis and approach to explore historic spatial-temporal variation in the effectiveness of individual NPIs, integrating vaccinations. The continued pandemic bur...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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/10.1101/2021.04.05.21254707

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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:
  The limitations of this descriptive analysis are rooted in its small sample size of three sites and limited geographic scope. However, this study has been uniquely conducted during the pandemic to inform ongoing public health action and infusion site implementation during this emergency. These therapies are not yet widely available internationally and lessons learned now in the U.S. may be generalizable to other settings implementing monoclonal antibodies for an emerging infectious 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:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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/10.1101/2021.04.02.21254493

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.21254493: (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.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254800

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254800: (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">Preliminary analyses, including descriptive statistics and bivariate correlations were calculated for all study variables using SPSS Version 26.0.38 Next, we tested predictive models to assess the associations between moral distress and organizational variables and psychiatric sequelae using structural equation modeling (SEM) in MPlus Version 839.</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/10.1101/2021.04.04.21253205

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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: Tissue collection: Rapid autopsies (6 hours) were performed with appropriate consent and following COVID-19 safety protocols8.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.01.21254767

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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: Written informed consents were obtained from participants in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.<br>IRB: For COVID-19 and control blood/plasma collection, Children’s Cancer Hospital’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) has evaluated the study design and protocol, IRB number 31-2020 issued on July 6, 2020.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">No randomization was done and clinical data were made available after EPR data collection and analysis have been performed.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">No power analysis was done.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-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">Suspended cells were incubated with combinations of anti-human monoclonal antibodies for subset identification as follows: CD-42b-PE (Beckman Coulter life sciences, IM1417U) for platelets, CD14-PC7 (Beckman Coulter life sciences, A22331) for monocytes, CD66b-APC-Alexa Fluor 750 for neutrophils (Beckman Coulter life sciences, B08756) and CD3-ECD (Beckman Coulter life sciences, IM2705U) for lymphocytes cells were incubated for 30 minutes in the dark at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human monoclonal</div><div>suggested: (Beckman Coulter Cat# IM2705U, RRID:AB_130860)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Suspended cells were incubated with DCF (20 μM) and combinations of monoclonal antibodies; CD-42b-PE (Platelets), CD14-PC7 (monocytes), CD66b-APC-Alexa Fluor 750 (neutrophils), and CD3-ECD (lymphocytes) for 30 minutes at room temperature in the dark.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3-ECD</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">A number of 20,000 events were acquired and analyzed using CytExpert software to determine the percent and mean fluorescence intensities (MFI) of analyzed cell subsets.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CytExpert</div><div>suggested: (CytExpert Software, RRID:SCR_017217)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Images were processed to quantify fluorescence intensity using Gen5 software package 3.08.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gen5</div><div>suggested: (Gen5, RRID:SCR_017317)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: Statistical analysis and data graphing were performed using OriginPro 2017 (OriginLab Corporation, Northampton, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OriginPro</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OriginLab Corporation</div><div>suggested: (Origin, RRID:SCR_014212)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254918: (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 analysis of HWF data was also approved as exempt by Harvard University Longwood Medical Area Institutional Review Board (IRB) (Protocol no. IRB20-0514) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard IRB (Protocol no. EX-1653).<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained from all users and the data were collected in de-identified form.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 10.1101/2021.04.02.21254818: (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">Consent: MD website all participants provided informed consent at the start of the online questionnaire for their data to be used for research purposes, and had to agree to the corresponding Your.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 gender variable was coded as 0 for male and 1 for female.</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">(5) For clustering, we excluded symptoms experienced by less than 5% of the individuals in each group to avoid chaining.(6) All statistical analyses were performed using custom programs in the MATLAB R2019b (MathWorks) environment. Ethics: The Covid-10 Symptom Mapper data was provided to us by Your.</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:
  Strengths & limitations: One of the strengths of this study was the ability to look globally at symptoms with a specific breakdown by nationality, allowing geolocation and culture/behavioural aspects to be investigated. Symptom reports were conducted in local languages (e.g. Portugese, Hindi, etc) thus increasing accessibility, however translations may not match exactly within cultural contexts, e.g. “pain” in Brazil is “joint ache” in UK (but not stomach pain). Given the data for this analysis came from an Internet based survey, there will be differential access, however only a very low effort was needed to partake given the questionnaire was accessed via a simple website and not an app. Given the widespread use of smartphones globally, this should facilitate participation, however we acknowledge that those who are younger or in wealthier countries may be more likely to partake thus skewing the results, equally educational factors may have played a role and we do not have any socioeconomic or ethnicity information. Whilst we acknowledge that the data used are self-reported, we do not think this undermines the accuracy of underlying disease or symptom reporting. For those who report a COVID-19 positive test, we do not distinguish between type of tests and thus cannot account for differences in accuracy. Clinical and Public Health impact: Our information may be utilised in a clinical setting as an additional triage tool and for target testing, especially to better inform decis...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 7. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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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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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.03.21254871: (What is this?)
  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254963: (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">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 blocking ELISA based assay qualitatively detects anti-SARS-CoV2 antibodies inhibiting the interaction between receptor binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike glycoprotein and angiotensin-converting enzyme.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometric analysis: For detection of surface molecules, antibodies against CD3 (SK7, Biolegend, Carlsbad, CA, USA), CD4 (SK3, Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD4</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">Following adapter trimming, alignment to the GRCh38 reference genome obtained from ENSEMBL (38) was performed using STAR 2.7.1a (39) retaining only properly paired, uniquely mapping reads.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ENSEMBL</div><div>suggested: (Ensembl, RRID:SCR_002344)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STAR</div><div>suggested: (STAR, RRID:SCR_004463)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Count matrices were generated using featureCounts from subread 2.0.1 (40) with annotation version GRCh38.98 obtained from ENSEMBL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>featureCounts</div><div>suggested: (featureCounts, RRID:SCR_012919)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Downstream processing was performed using DESeq2 1.22.2 (41) in R 3.5.1.</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">Differentially regulated pathways between groups were determined by Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA 4.1.0, (</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GSEA</div><div>suggested: (SeqGSEA, RRID:SCR_005724)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">FACS data analysis: FACS data were analyzed with FlowJo 10 (Becton Dickinson).</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">Unsupervised analysis was conducted using t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) included in Cytobank (Beckman Coulter, Krefeld, Germany).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cytobank</div><div>suggested: (Cytobank, RRID:SCR_014043)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistics: Statistical examination and composition of ELISA and FACS data derived graphs were executed using GraphPad Prism 8 (GraphPad, La Jolla, CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Using comprehensive multiparameter analysis, our data further reveal significant limitations of vaccine-specific Th effector functions in these individuals, applying to all cytokines examined and equally affecting polyfunctionality. T cells secreting multiple effector molecules at a time have gained particular attention due to their association with superior viral control in HIV infected subjects (23) that was further verified for influenza infection (24). In context with vaccination, multipotent Th cells have been correlated with vaccine-induced immunity against tuberculosis (25). The presence of virus-reactive, multipotent T cells in convalescent seronegative individuals suggests a comparable role in protection against SARS-CoV2 (26), with possible implications for its absence in KTx patients. Extending flow cytometric data, low input transcriptome analysis of vaccine-specific T helper cells from transplant recipients highlighted downregulation of pathways involved in e.g. cellular activation, cytokine signalling and metabolism. Not surprisingly, these hallmarks represent footprints of immunosuppressive medication, as was e.g. shown for impaired IL-2-STAT5 signalling post kidney transplantation (27). Interestingly, IL-2 gene activity is also sensitive to TGFβ signalling (28), reflecting one of the features we found upregulated in Th cells from KTx patients. Amongst single genes, TNFSF4 (OX40L) showed increased transcript levels in this patient group; of note, OX40L protein ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No 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:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254935: (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: The study was reviewed and cleared by the Institute Ethics Committee (IEC).<br>Consent: Informed consent was obtained from the participants/next of kin prior to 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">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Profiles were defined for individual zones as per existing literature.6,7 The investigators were blind to any other imaging performed on the patients.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Analysis was performed using STATA v12.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 is, however, not without limitations. Our study did not include follow-up imaging of the enrolled patients. It was a single centre study with a limited sample size and the inter and intra-observer reliability was not assessed. Scans were performed at variable days after symptom onset, at different stages of the disease. Use of the curvilinear probe rather than a linear probe could have compromised detailed assessment of pleural line abnormalities. Therefore, larger prospective studies using lung ultrasound at different points of patient contact are needed to provide further details on its diagnostic and prognostic performance in different clinical settings in the management of COVID-19 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.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.03.21254866: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254783: (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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254798: (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 reviewed by the Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board (IRB) and determined to be exempt from the requirement for IRB approval (45 CFR 46.104d, 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">Overall, we mainly assessed a cohort of 31,064 individuals who were administered with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Mayo Clinic Health system between the time period December 15, 2020 and February 8, 2021. 31,064 individuals (19,321 females, 11,743 males) had received the first dose of the vaccine and 17,063 individuals had received the second dose of the vaccine.</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.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.01.21254770

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254770: (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">IACUC: Ethical permission and Sample collection: The Ethical Review Committee of the Jashore University of Science and Technology approved this study (ERC no: ERC/FBST/JUST/2020-49).<br>Consent: We informed individual participants (COVID-19 patients) or their family members about the study protocol and took verbal 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">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 exclude a sample from one volunteer in the final study due to the appearance of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We performed statistical tests based on transformed log data using SPSS 24.0 for Windows (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and GraphPad Prism 8.0 (GraphPad Software, USA) to construct all the figures logarithmic scales.</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>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:
  There were a few limitations along with the small sample size in our study. We could not collect repeated blood samples after 14 days from severe patients admitted to ICU. We also estimated the relative expression levels of cytokines and chemokines instead of serum cytokine levels. However, live vaccines such as the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) are known to induce trained immunity (enhanced innate immune response to subsequent infections). COVID-19 cases reported being lower in countries with universal BCG vaccination programs (such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Japan) compared to those without the programs (such as the USA, Spain, Canada, Italy) [43]. We hypothesized that BCG vaccination might induce an immune response and reduce SARS-CoV-2 viremia and the severity of COVID-19 infections [44], and rapid recovery of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the country.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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/10.1101/2021.04.05.438524

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.438524: (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: The study was approved by the Weill Cornell Medicine institutional review board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Between January 28 and March 31, 2021, we studied 122 pregnant women and their neonates at time of birth.</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">Semi-quantitative testing for antibodies against S-Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) (ET HealthCare)3 was performed on sera of maternal peripheral blood and neonatal cord blood at the time of delivery to identify antibodies mounted against the vaccine.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibodies against S-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">All women tested negative for antibodies against the Nucleocapsid Protein (NP) antigen (Roche Diagnostics EUA) to ensure that the antibodies detected were not produced in response to past SARS-CoV-2 infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibodies against the Nucleocapsid Protein (NP)</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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254708

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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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  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 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/10.1101/2021.04.01.21254755

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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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  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: Ethics approval was obtained from the University of Toronto Research Ethics Board through the Modeling Consensus Table, a provincial working group developing evidence for the COVID-19 response that operates with the support of the Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, and Public Health Ontario.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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:
  Study limitations include missing data on movement among those without a GPS or WiFi-enabled device, mobility being only a proxy for social contact, and differing policies affecting daytime mobility (e.g. schools reopened in Quebec on January 11, 2021 but only reopened provincewide in Ontario on February 16, 2021). However, this natural experiment among two neighbouring provinces provides useful evidence that curfews lead to an immediate and substantial decrease nighttime mobility, particularly in these provinces’ largest urban areas hardest hit by COVID-19.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.05.21253827

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21253827: (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 institutional review boards of these hospitals approved this study as minimal risk and waived consent requirements.<br>Consent: The institutional review boards of these hospitals approved this study as minimal risk and waived consent requirements.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 identified individuals with an SpO2:FiO2 (oxygen saturation:fraction of inspired oxygen) ratio of <256 as qualified for tocilizumab and determined total numbers of females and males who had qualifying values at any point during hospitalization.</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 study design and inclusion criteria for sequentially admitted patients with SARS-CoV-2 have been in part been described elsewhere29.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: (Active Motif Cat# 91351, RRID:AB_2847848)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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/10.1101/2021.04.05.21251104

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21251104: (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
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.01.21254448

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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.02.21254839

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.21254839: (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
  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 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/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254014

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254014: (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">Consent: Prior to taking the survey, all participants completed a consent form that detailed the purpose of the research.<br>IRB: The study protocol and survey were reviewed and approved by the WCG Institutional Review Board (Needham MA) and deemed to be exempt from subject 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">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">(19) The list of reportable symptoms and effects from the vaccine were adapted from the⍰Pfizer/ BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine FDA Briefing Report. (20) Demographic, health conditions, and treatment related questions were adapted from⍰Inspire’s⍰standard question sets.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioNTech</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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254949

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254949: (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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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.438540

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.438540: (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">Anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 N protein antibody was purchased from Sino Biological Inc (Beijing, China)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 N protein antibody</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 N protein</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Alexa Fluor 488 goat anti‐rabbit IgG (H + L) secondary antibody and Hoechst 33342 were purchased from Molecular Probes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Alexa Fluor 488 goat anti‐rabbit IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">Anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) primary antibody, 488-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG secondary antibody and Hoechst 33342 were treated to the cells for immunofluorescence.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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">Virus and cells: Vero and Vero E6 cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC CCL-81 and C1008, respectively) and maintained at 37°C with 5% CO2 in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM; Welgene), supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 2% antibiotic-antimycotic solution (Gibco).</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 at 2.0 × 104cells per well with Eagle’s Minimum Essential Medium (EMEM, ATCC) supplemented with 20% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS), 1%</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">For viral infection, plates were transferred into the BSL‐3 containment facility and SARS‐CoV‐2 was added at a multiplicity of infection of 0.008 for Vero cells and 0.2 for Calu-3 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">DRCs were generated using Prism7 software (GraphPad).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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/10.1101/2021.04.07.438812

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.07.438812: (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">SARS-CoV-2 production: Batches of the BetaCoV/England/02/2020 (Public Health England) strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were produced as in our accompanying manuscripts using VERO E6 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VERO E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td 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 constructs and protein expression in E.coli: The sequences of SARS-CoV-2 nsp14 and nsp10 (NCBI reference sequence NC_045512.2) were codon optimised for expression in E. coli using the GeneArt Gene Synthesis software (ThermoFisher scientific) and genes were ordered from GeneWiz (codon optimised DNA sequences in supplementary information).</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">Screen data analysis: Screen data were analysed with custom MATLAB and R scripts.</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">Slopes were then used to calculate KM and VMAX by non-linear fitting to the Michaelis-Menten equation using GraphPad Prism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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><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-FLAG M2 resin was added to the FH-nsp13 supernatant and Glutathione Sepharose 4 Fast Flow resin was added to the GST-nsp13 supernatant, and gently rotated for 2 h at 4°C.</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">Finally, the cells were infected by adding 20µl of SARS-CoV-2 with a final MOI of 0.5 PFU/cell. 22h post infection, cells were fixed, permeabilised, and stained for SARS-CoV-2 N protein using Alexa488-labelled-CR3009 antibody produced in-house (see section for Recombinant mAb production) and cellular DNA using DRAQ7 (Abcam).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DRAQ7</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Viral inhibition assay: 1.5*10^3 Vero E6 cells (NIBC, UK) resuspended in DMEM containing 10% FBS were seeded into each well of 96-well imaging plates (Greiner 655090) and cultured overnight at 37C and 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MATLAB was used to process data.</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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IACUC: Ethics Statement: All work was conducted in accordance with the Canadian Council of Animal Care (CCAC) guidelines, AUP number 20200016 by the University Animal Care Committee (<br>IRB: UACC) Animal Research Ethics Board at the University of Saskatchewan.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 rotor was loaded in the VetScan VS2 Analyzer and analyzed as plasma samples from male hamsters.</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">Rat anti-CD3 clone CD3-12, P. Moore, UC-Davis, Davis, CA) and CD20 (Rabbit anti-CD20, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) primary antibodies were applied for 30 m at 1:25 and 1:400 dilutions, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD3</div><div>suggested: (RayBiotech Cat# DS-MB-02991, RRID:AB_1544189)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD20</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">(Wisent Bioproducts (Cat # 319-005-CL)), 2% fetal calf serum (Wisent Bioproducts (Cat # 090-150)), 5 mL 100x penicillin (10,000 U/mL)/streptomycin (10,000 μg/mL), and 2 μg/mL TPCK-trypsin) on Vero-76 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-76</div><div>suggested: IZSLER Cat# BS CL 101, RRID:CVCL_0603)</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: Unpaired, unequal variance, two-tail Student’s t-test or one-way ANOVAs were conducted using GraphPad Prism8 (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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.04.06.437914: (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">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Multiple-Sequence Alignment (MSA): Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) were constructed with the online alignment server MAFFT (10, 11) with the reference sequence “Wuhan-Hu-1” with the Genbank accession number “MN908947.3”.</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">Frequency computations and visualizations: The allele frequencies and the visualizations were both done using MATLAB R2020a on “hlz”.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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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">, acetonitrile (ACN), ammonium bicarbonate (NH4HCO3), anti-FALG antibody, anti-FLAG M2 affinity gel, and neuraminidase were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-FALG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-FLAG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>neuraminidase</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 SARS-CoV-2 S protein subunit 1 (His tag) expressed by HEK-293 cells were purchased from Sanyoubio (Shanghai,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293</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">The glycosites and glycoforms of S protein purified from HEK-293T cells were confirmed according to the mass spectrometry results of commercial S1 using a ‘match between runs’ analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293T</div><div>suggested: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 1018, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mass spectrometric data analysis: The LC-MS/MS raw data were analyzed manually for each glycopeptide using Xcalibur 3.0.63 (Thermo Fisher Scientific).</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">All the MD simulations were performed using the Amber14 package(Case et al., 2014).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Amber14</div><div>suggested: (Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement (AMBER, RRID:SCR_014230)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
  Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 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 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.
  No funding statement was detected.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.07.21255056: (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 more details, we used the least square method with a priori distribution for each parameter to fit the model to the data using the software of Matlab, where the ODE system is solved by the “ODE45” function while the “fmincon” function is used to search the optimal solutions of the objective function.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Matlab</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254961: (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">IACUC: Recruitment and participants: After approval from the author’s institutional ethics committee, initial contact was made with key individuals within community hubs across England; such as charities and community organisations, faith organisations, and women’s centres with high levels of attendance by Black and South Asians.<br>Consent: Eligibility criteria were being 18 years of age or older, from a Black (African or Caribbean), and South Asian (Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian) background, ability to comprehend and speak English to a sufficient level in order to understand instructions; ability to sign a consent form; and availability to be interviewed via MS Team, Zoom, Skype or phone call.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21255033: (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
  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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.05.21254941

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254941: (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 statistical analysis was performed under the most commonly used significance levels (1%, 5% and 10%) using the RStudio statistical software v.3.6.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254940: (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: 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">NCT04591717</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 Vaccination Using a 2nd Generation (E1/E2B/E3-Delet…</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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254952: (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
  <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">RESOURCE AVAILABILITY: EXPERIMENTAL MODELS AND SUBJECT DETAILS: METHOD DETAILS: QUANTIFICATION AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Statistical tests were performed in R using base packages for statistical analysis and the ggplot2 package was used for graphics.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ggplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.03.21254748: (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: Inclusion criteria for enrollment were as follows: Subject was ≥18 years of age at the time of informed consent and assent (as applicable); subject was male or non-pregnant, non-lactating female; subject had a diagnosis of COVID-19 infection through an approved testing method; subject had been hospitalized due to clinical diagnosis of pneumonia with acute lung injury defined as diffuse bilateral radiographic infiltrates and mild to moderate ARDS defined as PaO2/FiO2 >100 and <300 subject had an oxygen saturation at rest in ambient air <93%.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Eligible patients were randomly assigned in 1:1 ratio to receive either CERC-002 or placebo.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This sample size was selected to provide greater than 80% power to detect a difference of 0.25 in the proportion of subjects alive and free of respiratory failure using a one-sided significance level of 0.05.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Inclusion criteria for enrollment were as follows: Subject was ≥18 years of age at the time of informed consent and assent (as applicable); subject was male or non-pregnant, non-lactating female; subject had a diagnosis of COVID-19 infection through an approved testing method; subject had been hospitalized due to clinical diagnosis of pneumonia with acute lung injury defined as diffuse bilateral radiographic infiltrates and mild to moderate ARDS defined as PaO2/FiO2 >100 and <300 subject had an oxygen saturation at rest in ambient air <93%.</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">, serum free LIGHT levels and inflammatory biomarker patterns, plasma concentrations of CERC-002 over time and measurement of anti-drug antibody (ADA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-drug</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">NCT04412057</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">Clinical Trial to Evaluate CERC-002 in Adults With COVID-19 …</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.05.21254924

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254924: (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 aligned sequences with MAFFT and identified SARS-CoV-2 lineages using the PANGOLIN (Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak LINeages, github.com/cov-lineages/pangolin) tool.13,14 Our analysis pipeline aimed to accommodate issues with SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity (relative to the timeframes of transmission and accumulation of viral diversity) that lead to challenges with phylogenetic resolution.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAFFT</div><div>suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This analysis has several limitations. First, we likely are underestimating the true number of introductions due to incomplete sampling. Phylogenetic results need to be interpreted carefully due to incomplete sampling and phylogenetic uncertainty. Because our sampling coverage was only 6% of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases, if we were to sequence more genomes, we would find more introductions. Although GISAID and participating laboratories have facilitated the availability of an unprecedented number of publicly available whole genomes of SARS-CoV-2, within specific geographies, sampling coverage is very low and there is significant over-representation of sequences from certain countries (e.g. the United Kingdom, Australia, and the US). Second, due to length-biased sampling, we were unable to assess temporal variation in downstream clade sizes changed over time. Our findings have several important public health implications. First, our findings highlight the importance of genomic surveillance to monitor for emerging variants in WA and elsewhere in the US due to the high levels of inter- and intra-state transmission of SARS-CoV-2 lineages.25 Monitoring inter- and intra-state transmissions and their origins can be used to determine where public health interventions may be most effective. In addition, we observed that number of both introductions and exports fell within the week of the “Stay Home, Stay Health” order, suggesting that lockdowns may be effective at immediately reducing 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:
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254794: (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 original study was approved by the local institutional review board (IRB) with waiver of consent in view of its retrospective design, both studies observe the general principals outlined by the declaration of Helsinki.<br>Consent: The original study was approved by the local institutional review board (IRB) with waiver of consent in view of its retrospective design, both studies observe the general principals outlined by 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">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 excluded patients younger than 18 years old, pregnant females, and known pulmonary tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive cases.</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">Commercially available software STATA® was used in the analysis (StataCorp. 2017. Stata Statistical Software:</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STATA®</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">: StataCorp LLC.).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>StataCorp</div><div>suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study suffers several limitations, first there is the limitation inherent within the retrospective design and lack of prospective randomization, although propensity score matching partially compensates this defect. Second, the small sample size in our study definitely renders it underpowered, and consequently significant findings to be idea generating and should be interpreted cautiously. Third, we didn’t follow the classical method of propensity score matching, however; this was for justifiable reasons, and the resultant matched groups were similar. Last, several details were overlooked in our study, such as the duration of symptoms before hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and TCZ treatment, since the main focus of the study was the duration of mechanical ventilation itself and ICU outcome, and those details were published elsewhere (3).
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254688: (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 was approved by the ethics committee of Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine of the Moscow Healthcare Department (protocol #5-120, issued on 01.04.2020).<br>Consent: The need for written patient consent was waived by the ethics committee of the hospital because laboratory investigations were conducted according to the local standard.<br>IACUC: The local ethical committee approved the retrospective study.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-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">Antibodies against the following surface markers were applied for whole blood sample labelling: CD95 (mouse monoclonal anti-hu CD95-FITC 1F-362-T100, EXBIO), CD14 (mouse monoclonal anti-hu CD14-PE Conjugated Antibody A07764, Beckman Coulter) and HLA-Dr (HLA-Dr-FITC Conjugated Antibody, IM1638U, Beckman Coulter).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD95</div><div>suggested: (EXBIO Praha Cat# 1F-362-T100, RRID:AB_10735518)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-hu CD95-FITC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD14</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-098-067, RRID:AB_2660171)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-hu CD14-PE</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-Dr</div><div>suggested: (Beckman Coulter Cat# IM1638U, RRID:AB_10639293)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For lymphocyte death analysis, PBMCs were stained with anti-CD45, Annexin V, 7AAD (mouse monoclonal anti-hu CD45-FITC Conjugated Antibody A07782 Beckman Coulter; Annexin V-FITC Kit-AAD Kit, IM3614, Beckman Coulter; 7-AAD Viability Dye A07704, Beckman Coulter).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD45</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Annexin V, 7AAD (mouse monoclonal anti-hu CD45-FITC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-hu</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">In all cases, semi-quantitative CT scoring (severity ranging from 0 to 4) was evaluated according to the protocol recommended by Moscow Healthcare Department adapted from the International Protocols and enriched with local experience 8.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Moscow Healthcare</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254813: (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: The ethics committee of TMCH approved the present study (approval number: 2020-033).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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:
  Several limitations associated with the present study warrant mention. First, the results were obtained at a single PCR center during one epidemic season. Whether the same results would be obtained in other regions or during other epidemics requires additional validation. Second, this study did not include patients who had received the vaccine, and the accuracy of the test on SARS-CoV-2-infected patients after vaccination needs to be verified in the future. Third, we did not perform a genetic analysis of the detected SARS-CoV-2 variants and did not study the effect of genetic mutation on the antigen test results. Nevertheless, according to manufacturer’s information for use (version 4.0), QuickNavi™-COVID19 Ag reacts with both the SARS-CoV-2 UK variant (VOC-202012/01) and the Brazilian variant (501Y.V3, P.1 ), and the degrees of reaction with these variants are the same as those with the Wuhan strain. In conclusion, despite showing very high specificity, the QuickNavi™-COVID19 Ag has lower sensitivity for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic individuals as compared with its sensitivity in symptomatic patients. Nevertheless, given its high convenience and specificity, this antigen test could be used as a supplementary COVID-19 assessment for asymptomatic individuals, as long as the results are interpreted appropriately.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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/10.1101/2021.04.02.21254771

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.21254771: (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: 12 Both studies were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the California Institute of Technology, protocol #20-1026.<br>Consent: All participants provided either written informed consent or (for minors ages 6-17) assent accompanied by parental permission, prior to enrollment.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 participant data were collected and managed using REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) on a server hosted at the California Institute of Technology.</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">Reactions were run in duplicate on a CFX96 Real Time Instrument (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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Samples were analyzed with QuantaSoft analysis Pro 1.0.595 software following Bio-Rad’s RUO SARS-CoV-2 guidelines.43</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>QuantaSoft analysis Pro</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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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254744: (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 of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan (R2-079).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">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:
  This study has several limitations. First, the study recruited panelists who registered with an online research company. Therefore, the participants may not represent general workers. For example, online panelists may be particularly willing to use online tools or more familiar than others with using apps. Consequently, the results may underestimate negative factors for use of the app. Second, we evaluated the use of the contact tracing app by asking participants about whether they had downloaded it. Therefore, we did not confirm whether the application was installed. However, we think that most people who downloaded the app also installed it. Despite these limitations, to the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first study in Japan to examine current use of the COCOA with a large sample. In conclusion, the present study evaluated the associations of industry and workplace characteristics with the use of a COVID-19 contact tracing app in a large-scale online survey of Japanese workers. Those working in the public service sector or in information technology, as well as managers, were frequently found to use the contact tracing app, whereas those working in the retail and wholesale and food/beverage industries were less likely to use it. One possible reason for the under-implementation of the contact tracing app in the retail and wholesale and food/beverage industries may be the small size of businesses in these types of industries. An awareness campaign should be ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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">The results of which then underwent log transformations for ease of statistical analysis, and subject to one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s multiple comparisons post-hoc test in Prism ® (V 9.0.1) by GraphPad Software (San Diego, California, United States).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 analyses is as this was performed retrospectively, the efficiency of the amplification kinetics of the PE assay was not determined. Because of this, the original iteration of the ΔΔCt method in which efficiency is assumed to be 100%, was used. Using a single assay and gene target failure to determine the presence or not of a particular variant also has limitations, as despite genomics showing that in regions where the variant might dominate 98% or more of the target failure samples are positive for the VOC, the change that leads to the failure may also be sporadic. For example, ΔH69/V70 was reported in some circulating lineages before the emergence of VOC 202012/01, In Wales however, the molecular epidemiology generated by systematic whole genome sequencing in pillar 1 and latterly in pillar 2, largely support the data generated by the proxy assay for the arrival and establishment of VOC 202012/01 across Wales. This study does demonstrate that whilst Ct values generated in a qualitative PCR test can’t be used to firmly determine infectivity, they can be used to indicate changes in viral load excretion patterns associated with emerging variants at a population level, when a common testing platform with an endogenous control is used to normalise target gene against.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">The method reduces bias created from confounding, by treating the variants used as equivalent to treatment allocation in randomized control trials13,46-48.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 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">The sample size was calculated to have the statistical power to detect a prevalence of 1%, with 0,8% error within each macro-area, based on the number of cases notified on the day preceding each of the two surveys.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-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 acknowledge a number of limitations for this study. The sample size was calculated to have the statistical power to detect different lineages at the macro-area level. As such, regional estimates of prevalence should be taken with caution due to the small number of sequenced samples. Samples were randomly selected for sequencing among cases diagnosed by the labs, but some degree of correlation between them (e.g., cases belonging to an over-represented cluster on that day) cannot be completely excluded, especially in regions with lower sample sizes. Due to the different laboratory methodology of one region in the second survey, those data were excluded from the computation of the national prevalence of the variants. Possible biases in the estimate are expected to be minimal, since cases from this region represented only about 1.5% of the total. For what concerns model estimates on transmissibility, we could not take into account possible differences across strains in the duration of viral shedding [28], age-specific susceptibility or transmissibility [29], the proportion of asymptomatic individuals and their relative transmissibility [29], or other major determinants of the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, due to the lack of available data on the variants. Similarly, we could not distinguish the potential lineage-specific impact of existing mitigation measures in Italy, nor factor in the potential impact of vaccinations. These factors will likely shape the outcome of 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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  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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Study participants: All the individuals who received vaccines, in the above-mentioned centres, and who provided consent to participate were enrolled in the study.<br>IRB: Ethical permission: The study started after obtaining permission from the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, and written informed consent was taken from all the participants. 2.6.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Each mL of the dose administered contains 5 × 1010 simian adeno-viral particles produced in genetically modified human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254819: (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: The study received approval from our institution’s Ethics Committee (CEIm Fundació Sant Joan de Déu) with approval code PIC-28-21.<br>Consent: All participants signed the corresponding informed 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">This prospective study included lactating women aged over 18 who were vaccinated against SARS-CoV2 with the Pfizer-BioNTech® COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2).</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">Levels of IgG antibodies against the spike protein (S1 subunit) and against the nucleocapsid (NC) of SARS-CoV-2 were determined for each sample (Architect, Abbott®).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S1 subunit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All statistical analyses were performed with R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) and figures were generated using the ggplot2 R 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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">IRB: Records are uploaded by participating hospitals and a deidentified dataset is provided to investigators after review by a scientific review 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></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data Source/Study Population: The Get With The Guidelines® programs are provided by the American Heart Association (AHA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>American Heart Association</div><div>suggested: (American Heart Association, RRID:SCR_007210)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">We also report components of MACE outcomes, mechanical ventilation, management in intensive care unit, and venous thromboembolism including deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MACE</div><div>suggested: (MACE, RRID:SCR_005520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform (https://precision.heart.org/) was used for data analysis using R version 3.6.0 and SAS version 3.8. IQVIA (Parsippany, New Jersey) serves as the data collection and coordination center.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform</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:
  Limitations: The strengths of our study are that this is a large study population with over 21,000 people hospitalized at 107 hospitals with rigorous clinical adjudication of outcomes and detailed clinical phenotyping. The registry did not contain details regarding HIV such as treatment with antiretroviral therapy, CD4 counts, or viral loads. Despite diversity in hospital type and geographic location, the subset of hospitals participating in the registry may not be representative of all hospitals in the United States. Therefore, we focused not a population-based analysis to estimate marginal effects of the average additional risk of HIV but rather the conditional effect: what additional risk might a person living with HIV face conditional upon being admitted to a participating hospital. While the absolute number of HIV-infected individuals with MACE and death was low, our study does represent the largest study of PLWH hospitalized with COVID-19 to date. As an observational study, it remains possible that there is unmeasured confounding; to address this concern, we performed a propensity score-matched analysis in which we achieved good matching, but the results of this analysis were compatible with our findings as well as a significant association. As data are entered by each individual site, it is possible that there are variations in interpretation of the case definitions. We also did not account for calendar week or the local burden of the pandemic at a given hospital site ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">Authentication: For most experiments, 6×6 adjacent fields of view were acquired per sample using automated autofocus and image acquisition settings.</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">Primers and Antibodies: All oligonucleotides and antibodies used in this study are presented in the tables below:</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antibodies</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">HEK293 FT cells were grown in DMEM/high glucose supplemented with 10% FBS (Thermo), 50mg/mL gentamycin (Sigma), 1mM sodium pyruvate (Thermo), non essential amino acids (Thermo) and 2mM L-glutamine (Thermo).</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">These vectors were co-transfected with psPAX2 and pMD2.G packaging vectors (Systems Biosciences) into HEK-293FT cells using standard PEI transfection, the supernatant collected 48h and 72h after transfection, filtered through 0.45 μm filters and used to transduce A549 cells in the presence of 8 μg/mL polybrene (Sigma).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293FT</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# PTA-5077, RRID:CVCL_6911)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549</div><div>suggested: NCI-DTP Cat# A549, RRID:CVCL_0023)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HEK293 FT cells were grown in DMEM/high glucose supplemented with 10% FBS (Thermo), 50mg/mL gentamycin (Sigma), 1mM sodium pyruvate (Thermo), non essential amino acids (Thermo) and 2mM L-glutamine (Thermo).</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">Molecular docking simulations were performed with Gold 5.4 and AutoDock 4.2.3 softwares.</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">Signals were quantified using 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">This cDNA was used for qPCR (5 ng/reaction) using Power SYBR green Master mix (Thermo) with three technical replicates per biological replicate, using 200 nM of the primer sets indicated in Table 1, which were chosen from PrimerBank (Wang et al, 2012).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PrimerBank</div><div>suggested: (PrimerBank, RRID:SCR_006898)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All graphs and statistical analyses were generated using GraphPad Prism software and display mean ± SEM of the normalized values relative to the IFNγ-treated control for each replicate, considered as 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></table>
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  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 26. 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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  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
  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 key limitation of this study is that we do not distinguish between drug mentions and probable drug use, as our calculation of drug comment rates uses the number of mentions of a drug, not the number of drug mentions indicative of drug use. Future methods could make use of methods that have been developed to differentiate abuse from discussions, potentially improving accuracy of the overall system33. It is also possible that since we are not selecting for only comments regarding drug usage, that the rates of drug discussions we observe are driven by news cycles. While there is certainly an interplay between the news coverage and online discussions of drugs, the prevalence of kratom discussion on Reddit indicates that discourse can evolve without mainstream news coverage, as kratom is a drug with very low media coverage but high rates of discussion. Additionally, during the COVID-19 pandemic of the past year, changes in opioid overdose rates have received relatively little press coverage. Therefore, we view it as unlikely that news coverage drove the observed recent changes in opioid discussions or the emergence of kratom related activity. There is potential for interplay and response from the drug abuse community to the existence of a future social media surveillance system. If the drug abuse community sought to avoid surveillance efforts, those communities could find or create new platforms in which to converse, which could potentially facilitate private discussions. Indeed...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">IRB: The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">(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:
  However, several limitations associated with our study warrant mention. First, as the present study was conducted through the Internet, the extent to which the results may be generalized is unclear. However, to reduce bias as much as possible, we sampled the target population according to region, job type, and prefecture based on the infection incidence rate. Second, while work-family conflict may have influenced our findings, we did not enquire about such conflict in this study. However, we did adjust for marital status and the presence of family living together, which may have helped compensate for this lack of data. Third, because this was a cross-sectional study, the causal relationship between the intensity of telework and work engagement is unclear. Concerns have been raised about the existence of reverse causality, such as not choosing telework because the task lowers work engagement. Research has been conducted to index the ease of telecommuting (feasibility of telework) based on job characteristics.24 In the present study, we adjusted for occupation and industry, which may have eliminated some of the effects of the feasibility of telework. In conclusion, low- and moderate-intensity telework (once per month to three days per week) may have beneficial effects on work engagement. Certain factors associated with high-intensity telework (four or more days per week) may not enhance work engagement; these factors should be clarified, and measures to increase work engagement...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">Participants and Breast Milk Specimens: As previously described 9 breast milk samples and clinical information were obtained from women participating in the Mommy’s Milk Human Milk Biorepository at the University of California, San Diego (IRB#130658).</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 version 25 was used for analyses, and Prism version 8.4.3 (GraphPad) was used for figure presentation.</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>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study is unprecedented in the use of viral cultures to examine a very large number of breast milk specimens, a limitation of prior studies cited by Lackey et al19. We found that SARS-CoV-2 RNA is seldom detected in breast milk samples from women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Moreover, our longitudinal follow-up indicates that even when it is detected, it is an unlikely source of infection for the breastfed baby: viral RNA was only transiently present and we were unable to culture SARS-CoV-2 from any sample. This study had several limitations as well as strengths. The collection of breast milk samples was not directly observed and we relied on the maternal report of SARS-CoV-2 test results, symptoms and treatments received. However, all participants completed a semi-structured interview guided by trained study staff who prompted for specifics with the aid of a calendar. In addition, to our knowledge, this study represents the largest number of breast milk samples analyzed to date from SARS-CoV-2 infected women. We demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 maintains its infectivity despite repeated freezing and thawing and storage at 4°C. In addition, while sgRNA (a potential indicator of virus replication) was not detected in any of the milk specimens already known to contain SARS-CoV-2 RNA, this assay is only moderately sensitive: sgRNA is present in only about half of nasopharyngeal specimens with positive viral cultures (13,15and unpublished data by PK).
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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:
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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 10.1101/2021.04.07.438806: (What is this?)
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The conditions for the viral inhibition assay in Vero E6 cells are described in Zheng et al (Biochem J, this issue).</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">Identification of Primary Hits: Time-course data was analysed using MATLAB (R2020_a) to determine the rate of reaction then normalised to the rate of reaction of positive (no drug compound) control reaction wells.</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">IC50 values were then calculated using non-linear regression of inhibitor concentration against the normalised response using variable slope via GraphPad Prism (Version 8.4.3)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: 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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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.04.21254903: (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
  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 10.1101/2021.04.03.21254639: (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">Analysis and generation of figures were conducted in SPSS Statistics for Windows version 25.0</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:
  Strengths and Limitations: This study leveraged publicly available data from low-cost sensors and regulatory-grade beta attenuation monitors strategically placed throughout commercial and low- and middle-income residential neighborhoods of Temuco and Padre Las Casas. Combining the monitoring networks enabled an examination of the differential impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban ambient air quality across neighborhoods with potentially distinct changes in energy consumption patterns, which may be attributed to variation in neighborhood-level socioeconomic status. While the accuracy of the low-cost sensors used in this study can be affected by meterological factors such as temperature and humidity, the sensors showed high agreement with the reference standard during calibration (Figures S3 and S4). Further, measurements were aggregated at monthly levels, thereby lowering the risk of measurement error impacting study findings (Malings et al., 2020). A heating degree day analysis revealed that PM2.5 concentration fluctuations during COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 relative to 2019 were likely not attributed solely to colder winter temperatures (Figure 2). Household-level energy consumption patterns in Temuco and Padre Las Casas during COVID-19 lockdown were not assessed. However, given existing documented negative impacts of lockdowns on energy security (Shupler et al., 2020b) and the history of energy insecurity and inadequate maintenance of thermal comfort in the region prior to th...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 10.1101/2021.03.30.21254624: (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">Consent: For quality control, an RADT was simultaneously performed after verbal consent.<br>IRB: Upon approval by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Cologne, results were retrospectively analyzed including clinical data retrieved from a symptoms diary webtool that all individuals registering for a SARS-CoV-2 test are asked to complete.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">SARS-CoV-2 Culture: Vero E6 cells (ATCC CRL-1586) were cultured in complete medium (CM) consisting of Dulbecco’s modified Eagle Medium (DMEM; Thermo Fisher Scientific-Gibco, Waltham, MA) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS; GE Healthcare, Chicago, IL), 200 units/ml Penicillin, 200 µg/ml Streptomycin, 0.25</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">AMP Kit running on the Alinity m (Abbott, Illinois, USA) was used for 63 (3.11%) specimens targeting the viral N-and RdRp-genes according to the manufacturer’s instructions.</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">µg/ml Amphotericin B, 2 mM L-Glutamine and 1 mM sodium pyruvate (all by Thermo Fisher Scientific-Gibco, Waltham, MA) at 37°C in an incubator with 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fisher Scientific-Gibco</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel 16.44 (Microsoft)</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">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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">), Python 3.8.3, and R 3.6.3.</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:
  This study, however, is subject to some limitations. Although the examined single-center study population was large, our cohort might not be considered representative of the general population due to young age and disproportionate gender distribution. The data on symptoms and their duration are only reliable to a limited extent, since they were retrospectively analyzed from mostly self-reported symptoms entered into a web tool. Furthermore, instead of a nasal swab, we used an oro-and nasopharyngeal swab to investigate RADT performance, which impedes the feasibility for the general public. In combating overdispersed SARS-CoV-2 transmission, rapid detection and isolation of highly infectious individuals is a primary goal (8, 9, 36–40). In our investigation the Standard Q RADT was able to reliably detect high viral load as well as all culture positive samples. Therefore, this test could be used as a fast surrogate marker for viral cultivation in order to identify and prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmissions by highly infectious individuals. Although less sensitive than RT-qPCR, RADT could compensate for this disadvantage through easy and feasible mass screenings (8, 41). Furthermore, one might suspect that RT-qPCR positive, but RADT negative individuals do not pose a high risk of transmissions, since all samples remained culture negative in our experimental setup. However, individual results must be interpreted with caution as SARS-CoV-2 infection could remain undetected in early stages...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254668: (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">Consent: The trial protocol and informed consent form were approved by the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration and the ethics committee at the site.<br>IRB: The trial protocol and informed consent form were approved by the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration and the ethics committee at the site.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 interim report has some limitations: small size of the trial, the short period of follow-up at this time point, and the participants’ young age and good health status. We were not able to assess the durability of the immune responses after Day 57 in this interim report. However, participants will be followed up for 6 months after the second vaccination with scheduled blood collections throughout that period to evaluate the humoral immunologic responses. Although the level of immunity needed to protect from COVID-19 remains unknown, NIBSC 20/130 standard serum was tested in terms of wild-type SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody titer for the development and evaluation of serological assays for the detection of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, as a positive control. These safety and immunogenicity findings support further advancement of the MVC-COV1901 vaccine to subsequent clinical trials. Of the three doses evaluated, both the MD and HD elicited high neutralizing antibody responses with all participants seroconverted after second vaccination. Further phase 2 trial with 3700 participants (including the populations at greatest risk for serious Covid-19 such as those with chronic medical diseases and older adults) is on-going (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04695652)
  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">NCT04487210</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of MVC-COV…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04695652</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Study to Evaluate MVC-COV1901 Vaccine Against COVID-19 in …</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254674: (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 was approved by the institutional review boards of all participating medical centers and by the Weizmann Institute of Science.<br>Consent: All research participants provided written informed consent prior to enrollment.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Study Design: Pregnant women admitted for delivery at eight medical centers in Israel (Hadassah Mt. Scopus, Wolfson</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">Quantification of Anti-COVID-19 Antibodies: Serum samples were thawed, heat-inactivated at 56°C for 30 minutes, and transferred to bar-coded 96-well plates for analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-COVID-19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IgG and IgM antibody (S1, S2, RBD, N) concentrations were log10-transformed for analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgM</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>S1</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: Statistical analyses were performed using Statistix 8 software (Analytical Software, Tallahassee, FL USA) and Prism 5.01 (GraphPad Software; San-Diego, CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Strengths and Limitations: The present study has several strengths and limitations. Its strengths include its multicenter design and patient accrual; our relatively large cohort size; and our diverse patient population. Its limitations include the bias in sample collection as most of the study recruitment occurred during the day, and therefore does not includes most of the emergency cases. However, the method of sample collection did not differ between the study groups and Medical Centers, thus minimizing the impact of this effect on our results. Second, since sample collection began long before the COVID-19 immunization campaign, the duration of sample collection differed somewhat between the groups, with an extended recruitment period for COVID-19 recovered cases. We found no differences in background or demographic parameters among the groups. Third, a history of COVID-19 infection during pregnancy was made by positive RT-PCR results during pregnancy with self-reporting of the time of PCR test. Stricter and more accurate symptom monitoring and repeated sampling during pregnancy may provide a higher resolution delineation of how the immune response develops and transfers, following COVID-19 infection. Fourth, patients presenting with RT-PCR positive within one week prior to delivery were excluded from this study due to safety concerns. Thus, future studies are needed in order to characterize the maternal humoral response to COVID-19 within days 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:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.03.30.21253126: (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">Consent: Participation in the questionnaire was voluntary and online informed consent was obtained.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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:
  Strengths and limitations: Our study has several strengths; this is the first outbreak investigation which investigates COVID- 19 clusters in several singing groups worldwide. Second, the overall high response rate provided a good indication of the circumstances in which the singing events took place. Third, the questionnaire included questions aimed at identifying direct, indirect and airborne transmission routes. A limitation of this study is the low number of specimens on which we could perform phylogenetic analysis due to limited specimen storage time (usually one week) during the period of the outbreak investigation. Also, a large number of laboratories were involved coupled with a high work load for the public health services. Additionally, asymptomatic cases may have been missed as not all persons were tested. Therefore, we could not identify the number of possible source cases present at the events and/or confirming that the singing group members were infected by a common source. Thirdly, the exact circumstances regarding airflow direction for each of the events was not known, and could not be accounted for in the model. It was also dependent on the weather of that day for the events using natural ventilation. Lastly, due to the retrospective nature of the questionnaires, recall bias could have affected the responses of the participants which indicated the likeliness of dropet or indirect contact transmission. However, almost all singing group members did describe sim...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: Written informed consent was obtained in all cases of blood donation and further sample preparation.<br>IRB: Ethical considerations and study registration: The study was approved by the Research Planning Board of European University at St. Petersburg (on May 20, 2020) and the Ethic Committee of the Clinic “Scandinavia” (on May 26, 2020).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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 tests: We used three different antibody tests throughout the study: 1) chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay Abbott Archi-tect SARS-CoV-2 IgG on the Abbott ARCHITECT® i2000sr platform (Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, USA), detecting immunoglobulin class G (IgG) antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 with the signal/cut-off (S/CO) ratio of 1.4 for positivity (CMIA Abbot; www.fda.gov/media/137383/download).;</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>immunoglobulin class G (IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">2) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay CoronaPass total antibodies test (Genetico, Moscow, Russia) based on recombinant receptor binding domain of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 (Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA), detecting total antibodies with the S/CO ratio of 1.0 for positivity (ELISA Coronapass, pass.genetico.ru); 3) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay SARS-CoV-2-IgG-EIA-BEST by Vector-Best, Novosibirsk, Russia also detecting IgG antibodies to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 with the S/CO ratio of 1.1 for positivity.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vector-Best, Novosibirsk, Russia also detecting 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">Then 100 μl of the mix was transferred into 96-well microplates with monolayer Vero cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td 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 tests: We used three different antibody tests throughout the study: 1) chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay Abbott Archi-tect SARS-CoV-2 IgG on the Abbott ARCHITECT® i2000sr platform (Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, USA), detecting immunoglobulin class G (IgG) antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 with the signal/cut-off (S/CO) ratio of 1.4 for positivity (CMIA Abbot; www.fda.gov/media/137383/download).;</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott Laboratories</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has several limitations. PCR test results that were chosen as a golden standard, were carried out in different laboratories. Although official test certificates that are registered in the national database were provided, false-positive results cannot be ruled out [28]. But as mentioned above, PCR false-positivity is likely to underestimate antibody test sensitivity in this study. Neutralization test results should be considered with caution as well [29]. Such tests can be considered as a surrogate marker of protection from reinfection, but this association needs to be explored in population-based epidemiological studies [15]. In conclusion, this validation study provides a reference that can be used in further seroprevalence reports to correct the results based on test sensitivity and specificity. Choice of the test for longitudinal surveillance is critical for making conclusions about the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the durability of the immune response. Local tests should be rigorously evaluated for seroprevalence studies because the benefits of using properly validated tests are not only financial or related to matters of convenience. They may provide more accurate and unbiased assessments for the course of the pandemic.
  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">NCT04406038</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study of the Spread of COVID-19 in Saint Petersburg, Russia</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ISRCTN11060415</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/10.1101/2021.04.05.21254722

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254722: (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
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.01.21254585

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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: Ethics approval: The University of Toronto Health Sciences Research Ethics Board (protocol no.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 analyses were conducted in R (version 4.0.2), and spatial maps were generated using ArcGIS (version 10.7).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ArcGIS</div><div>suggested: (ArcGIS for Desktop Basic, RRID:SCR_011081)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This finding is consistent with data on social networks suggesting variable degrees of assortativity,(40) with connections between social networks through occupation-such as caregivers.(41, 42) The observed pattern of rapid and then persistent concentration of COVID-19 by social determinants, such as household density for example, has been consistent across high-income countries(43, 44) and in several low-and middle-income countries as well.(3, 4) Where reported, occupations not amenable to remote work have also been identified as an important risk factor for COVID-19.(15) In our study setting, essential services workers intersected with multi-generational households suggesting a connection between workplace exposures and those in home communities amplified by high rates of transmission within larger households.(45) These results should be considered in the light of limitations. We relied on area-based measures of the social determinants of health and thus our findings may be subject to ecological fallacy. There are two reassuring elements supporting validity of these findings including the use of the smallest geographical area available (DA) and the congruence of these results with individual data characterizing race and income among people with COVID-19.(46) We were also limited to broad categories with respect to occupation, and thus cannot infer concentration of cases by specific occupational exposures. Finally, these metrics for concentration or inequities are descriptiv...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.03.29.21253914

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.29.21253914: (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: 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">NCT04504240</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">Role of Famotidine in the Clinical Improvement of COVID-19 P…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04370262</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">Multi-site Adaptive Trials for COVID-19</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04545008</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Trial of Famotidine & N-Acetyl Cysteine for Outpatients With…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.438630: (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: Use of healthy volunteer PBMC for this project, including those from WBS, was ethically approved by the Cardiff University School of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (SMREC) nos. 20/55 and 20/101.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Antibodies used were against HLA-ABC (W632; AbD Serotec), NCR3LG1/B7-H6 (MAB7144, Biotechne R&D Systems), Nectin 1 (R1.302; Biolegend), MICA (AMO1-100; BAMOMAB), MICB (BMO2-100; BAMOMAB), ULBP2 (BUMO1; BAMOMAB), Spike (1A9; Insight), Nucleocapsid (1C7; Stratech), anti-mouse IgG AF647 (Thermofisher).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-ABC</div><div>suggested: (Leica Biosystems Cat# NCL-HLA-ABC, RRID:AB_563879)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MAB7144</div><div>suggested: (R and D Systems Cat# MAB7144, RRID:AB_2636810)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BMO2-100</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BAMOMAB</div><div>suggested: (BAMoMAB Cat# BM02-100, RRID:AB_2636812)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ULBP2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG</div><div>suggested: (SouthernBiotech Cat# 1030-31, RRID:AB_2794301)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Target cells were harvested using TrypLE Express (Gibco), preincubated for 30 min with the relevant antibody or serum preparations, then mixed with PBMCs at an effector:target (E:T) ratio of 10:1 in the presence of GolgiStop (0.7 μl/ml, BD Biosciences), Brefeldin-A (1:1000, Biolegend) and anti-CD107a–FITC (clone H4A3, BioLegend).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Brefeldin-A</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD107a–FITC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Primary antibody (anti-nucleocapsid 1C7, Stratech, 1:500 dilution) was added in PBST containing 1% non-fast milk and incubated for 1h at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-nucleocapsid</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing in PBST, secondary antibody (anti-mouse IgG-HRP, Pierce, 1:3,000 dilution) was added in PBST containing 1% non-fat milk and incubated for 1h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse IgG-HRP</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibody depletions: Anti-spike antibody was depleted from sera using magnetic bead conjugated spike trimer protein (Acrobiosystems).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><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: A549 were transduced with lentiviruses expressing human ACE2, and TMPRSS2 (AAT cells), as previously described 27.</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">The England2 strain of SARS-CoV2 was obtained from Public Health England (PHE), grown on VeroE6 cells, and titrated by plaque assay on both VeroE6 and AAT, as previously described27.</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">Plasmids were midiprepped (Nucleobond Xtra Midi; Machery-Nagel), and transfected into 293T cells using GeneJuice (Merck) according to manufacturers’ instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</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">Samples were loaded onto a trapping column (300μm x 5mm PepMap cartridge trap (Thermo Fisher)) at 10μL/min for 5 minutes at 60 degrees.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PepMap</div><div>suggested: (BioWorks, RRID:SCR_014594)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">During the gradient elution, mass spectra were acquired with the parameters detailed in Fig S4 using Tune v3.3 and Xcalibur v4.3 (Thermo Fisher).</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">The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE partner repository74 with the dataset identifier PXD025000 and 10.6019/PXD025000.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PRIDE</div><div>suggested: (Pride-asap, RRID:SCR_012052)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Functional Annotation Clustering: Assessment of enriched gene annotation terms in temporal cluster one was carried out using the Functional Annotation Clustering tool at DAVID (david.ncifcrf.gov) v6.875, using the default clustering settings for medium stringency and the following libraries: Uniprot UP_Keyword, GOTERM:MF_ALL, BIOCARTA,, KEGG_PATHWAY and REACTOME_PATHWAY.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DAVID</div><div>suggested: (DAVID, RRID:SCR_001881)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plasmids and transfections: Lentivirus plasmids encoding each SARS-CoV2 ORF individually, with a C-terminal twin-strep tag, were obtained from Addgene76.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Addgene76</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Target cells were harvested using TrypLE Express (Gibco), preincubated for 30 min with the relevant antibody or serum preparations, then mixed with PBMCs at an effector:target (E:T) ratio of 10:1 in the presence of GolgiStop (0.7 μl/ml, BD Biosciences), Brefeldin-A (1:1000, Biolegend) and anti-CD107a–FITC (clone H4A3, BioLegend).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BD Biosciences</div><div>suggested: (BD Biosciences, RRID:SCR_013311)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were acquired using an AttuneNxT (Thermo Fisher) and analyzed with Attune NxT software or FlowJo software version 10 (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">Where sera were tested at a range of dilutions, the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated using Graphpad Prism 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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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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  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">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">C9-rhodopsin antibody 1D4 HRP (Cat. No. sc57432 HRP) and 2’,3’-cyclinc nucleotide 3’-phosphodiesterase (CNPase) antibody (Cat. No. A01308) were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (Dallas, TX, USA) and Genscript Biotech (Piscataway, NJ, USA), respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>2’,3’-cyclinc nucleotide 3’-phosphodiesterase (CNPase) antibody</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>2’,3’-cyclinc nucleotide 3’-phosphodiesterase (CNPase)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The cleared lysate (“Whole cell” fraction) and eluted proteins (“Cell surface” fraction) were run on 10% SDS-PAGE and the spike proteins were detected by C9-rhodopsin antibody 1D4 HRP.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C9-rhodopsin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Endogenous membrane-anchored protein CNPase was detected by anti-CNPase antibody and served as an internal control.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CNPase</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The virus lysate was analyzed by western blot using rhodopsin antibody 1D4 HRP for spike proteins, and FITC-conjugated anti-p24 mAb and HRP-conjugated anti-FITC mAb for p24, which served as an internal control.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-p24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-FITC</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">Luciferase assay of cell entry by pseudoviruses: HEK293T cells were seeded on 100 mm dishes the night before.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">IRB: During hospitalization of the COVID-19 patients at UAB hospital, blood samples were collected under sterile conditions following Institutional Review Board guidelines.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">16S rRNA sequencing was performed using an Illumina MiSeq v2 chemistry with paired-end 250 base pair reads as per the Earth Microbiome Project’s protocol20.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Earth Microbiome Project’s</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Initial quality in the form of Phred q scores was determined using Qiime2, while cumulative expected error for each position was determined with VSEARCH22.</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">Statistical analysis: Data were evaluated for presence of outliers and adherence to a normal distribution using GraphPad Prism, version 8.1 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  This study has limitations including the absence of plasma microbiome samples in control subjects and the rather small size for COVID-19 subjects. Despite the limitations, we show conclusively that gut barrier leakage occurs in COVID-19 subjects. Taken together, we summarized our observations and show the presence of pathogenic bacteria in the plasma of COVID-19 subjects (Fig. 5). SARS-CoV-2 infection disrupts the gut barrier and leads to elevation of systemic bacterial lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan and serves to enhance systemic inflammation. Therefore, leaky gut and microbial dysbiosis could contribute to cytokine storm in patients severely ill with COVID-19.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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: Generation of monoclonal antibodies: All animal work was performed by adhering to institutional regulation as well as Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Six to eight weeks old, female, mice (Jackson Laboratories) were immunized with 3 ugs of purified RBD of SARS-CoV-2 mixed with 10 ugs of poly I:C (Invivogen) twice with 3 weeks interval (17, 29).</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">The virus stock was titered in Vero.E6 cells as well.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero.E6</div><div>suggested: JCRB Cat# JCRB1819, RRID:CVCL_YQ49)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  However, there is an important caveat that needs to be discussed for this experiment. All non-neutralizing antibodies that we isolated were of the IgG1 subtype, which in mice, is known to have low affinity for activating FcRs. This is in contrast to murine IgG2a and IgG2b which have high affinity for these FcRs. Therefore, we can only conclude that non-Fc-FcR based interactions do not contribute to protection by non-neutralizing antibodies. In fact, the two antibodies that provided the best protection, especially on day 3, KL-S-1D2 and KL-S-2C3, are both of the IgG2a subtype. While KL-S-1D2 showed the best in vitro neutralization of all isolated mAbs, which could cause this phenotype, KL-S-2C3’s in vitro activity was lower but still showed stronger activity in vivo than other mAbs. This could be seen as evidence that Fc-FcR interactions, especially engagement with activating FcRs, which is an important component of protection. Of note, the vast majority of antibodies induced in humans to SARS-CoV-2 spike by natural infection or vaccination are IgG1 and in humans – unlike in mice - IgG1 has strong affinity for activating FcRs (29). In summary, we describe several antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 RBD that maintain strong neutralizing activity against the B.1.1.7 as well as B.1.351 variant. These mAbs, if humanized, may be further developed into ‘variant resistant’ therapeutics.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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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  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">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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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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 Clearance: The collection of clinical samples, NPOP swabs and saliva samples, was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences,<br>Consent: Written informed consent, along with symptoms-if any, was obtained from all participants prior to sample collection.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Cycle threshold (Ct) value results were analyzed using Bio-Rad CFX software (Maestro).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bio-Rad CFX</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis and visualization of data were performed using GraphPad Prism version 8 (GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA USA) and MS Excel for Windows.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MS Excel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this 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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  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
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254731: (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 web application was developed using HTML, Javascript, and Python.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254735: (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 was approved by the Yale University Human Subjects Committee (study number 2000028081).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">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">Patients were excluded from the analysis if they did not have a SOFA score recorded within 24 hours of admission, if it was not their first admission with COVID-19, or if their race and ethnicity data were not Non-Hispanic Black, Non-Hispanic White, or Hispanic (Fig 1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Non-Hispanic White</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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:
  (34) Another limitation is that we did not investigate potential disparities in SOFA scores in other marginalized populations. Future research is needed to examine the effects of disability, psychiatric comorbidities, substance use disorders, unstable housing, or incarceration on SOFA scores. In conclusion, Non-Hispanic Black patients admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 had increased odds of an elevated SOFA score ≥6 within the first 24-hours of admission. Therefore, published triage protocols utilizing the SOFA score to allocate scarce medical resources would be more likely to deny Non-Hispanic Black patients scarce medical resources such as ventilators and ICU beds if implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments and healthcare systems should prospectively consider and implement measures to reduce systemic racism, protect marginalized populations, and promote racial and ethnic equity the pandemic.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254695

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254695: (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">IACUC: The dataset is open source, so there is no need for approval by an ethical 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></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 relationships between citation numbers and some related variables were analyzed with Spearman correlation coefficients, and p-values are reported and tested at a significance level of 0.05 using IBM SPSS Statistics 21.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  There is a limitation: the only source of publications was the WoS core. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first bibliometric analysis on rheumatology and COVID-19, which could be useful for future studies.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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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 aim of the study was explained to the people and informed consent were obtained.<br>IACUC: This study was approved by the ethical committee of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254725: (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 statistical calculations were performed in SAS v 9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our work suffers from numerous limitations. The principal among these is the selection mechanism by which participants enrolled in the study. They had to be healthy enough to participate and willing enough to disclose sensitive information in an online survey. Persons who were particularly afflicted with worries may have been more likely to try to respond to a long questionnaire, skewing our associations to be stronger than they are in the source population (selection bias). Thus, there is no chance that our sample is representative of the city of Philadelphia and there are not statistical techniques to compensate for this: sampling weights for key factors, such as mental health, are unknown. Our samples heavily skewed toward non-Hispanic whites and likely did not adequately capture the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. This is important to note because there is evidence of difference in rates of symptoms of mental ill health by race and ethnicity. For example, Fitzpatrick et al.,[6] reported that non-Whites and those of Hispanic origin experienced higher rates of depressive symptoms compared to non-Hispanic Whites during the pandemic. Furthermore, since the pandemic, there was an increase of 150% in anti-Asian hate crime in the US and increase in hate incidents due to faulted stereotypes of Asian Americans and blame for the pandemic [23]. Documenting experiences of racial and ethnic minorities would require resources of community engaged research that was beyond o...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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
  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
  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 10.1101/2021.04.03.21254873: (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: Protocols for the collection of saliva samples were either approved by the Rockefeller University (RU) Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Biomedical Research Alliance of New York IRB or were deemed not to be human subjects research by the RU IRB.<br>Consent: Where required, written or verbal consent was obtained from all volunteers.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">The viability of the Huh-7.5 cells was assessed after 3 and 5 days of incubation, yielding approximate TCID50 values.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Huh-7.5</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_7927)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254723: (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">Copyright 2020 GraphPad Prism is a registered trademark of GraphPad Software, LLC.</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">Machine learning model development and performance analysis was performed using RStudio v.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Significance of relationships between each parameter and comfort score was determined in GraphPad Prism using the F-test.</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 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/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254115

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254115: (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
  <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">Library concentration was measured with the Qubit 4 Fluorometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific; Waltham, MA, USA) using the Qubit dsDNA HS Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific).</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">Supplementary Data ACKN) and aligned with MAFFT v7.45324 against the reference genome Wuhan-Hu-1/2019 (NCBI ID: MN908947.3) with --addfragments - -keeplength options.</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">Phylogenetic analysis: For each of the five subsets, we constructed a phylogenetic tree using IQ-Tree v2.1.126 under the GTR substitution model and ‘-fast -altr 1000’ as options and reconstructed ancestral sequences at the internal tree nodes with TreeTime v0.8.012.</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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  Thank 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/10.1101/2021.03.27.21254373

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.27.21254373: (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 local Institutional Review Board (IRB # 2020P000829); a waiver of informed consent was granted.<br>Consent: This study was approved by the local Institutional Review Board (IRB # 2020P000829); a waiver of informed consent was granted.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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:
  Despite these limitations, there is no clear evidence that statin exposure during infection is associated with clinically important hepatotoxicity. Myotoxicity is a known, albeit rare, complication of statins. In the context of COVID-19, where creatinine kinase elevations are prevalent, there is concern that statins could increase myotoxicity and subsequent creatinine kinase-induced nephrotoxicity. This was not seen among individuals newly initiated on statins or continued on statin therapy, with creatinine kinase peak levels never reaching three times the upper limit of normal, clinically considered the threshold for acute kidney injury due to pigment associated nephropathy (46). Our findings must be interpreted in the context of study design. Although we utilized two data sources to confirm demographics, medications, laboratory data and clinical outcomes, misclassification errors are possible. We limited this error rate by employing physician review of discrepant data. Additionally, we were unable to account for patients who had dose escalations in their statin usage or who had their statin temporarily held during hospitalization. It is important to note that peak liver biochemistry levels (AST and ALT) as well as peak CK level were compared with unadjusted analyses and timing of statin initiation was not taken into account. Finally, patients who were on statin therapy prior to hospitalization but had the medication discontinued during hospitalization, presumably due to org...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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/10.1101/2021.04.02.21252580

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.21252580: (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 approach was reported to the ethics committee of the Ärztekammer des Saarlandes.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">For SARS-2-S expressing cells as well as cells expressing no viral glycoprotein, anti-VSV-G antibody (culture supernatant from I1-hybridoma cells; ATCC no. CRL-2700) was added to the culture medium.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-VSV-G</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">VSV pseudotype particles bearing SARS-2-S, VSV-G or no viral protein (negative control) were produced using an established protocol (18): First, HEK-293T cells were transfected to express the respective viral protein or no viral protein.</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">For transduction experiments, Calu-3 cells (grown in 96-well plates) were preincubated with different concentrations of AAT (Kamada, diluted in culture medium) or culture medium alone.</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">For virus titration, Vero E6 cells were grown in 12-well plates until reaching confluency.</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">Data were analyzed with Microsoft Excel (Microsoft, Redmond, USA)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">), SPSS 28 (IBM, Ehningen, Germany) and graphed using GraphPad Prism 8 Software (San Diego, 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><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:
  This study has limitations that need to be addressed, first of all the lack of data from a controlled trial and the missing deep mechanistic characterization of the mode of action of AAT. These items are beyond this report, which shows that AAT has anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity, is well tolerated in patients with COVID-19 and together with its anti-inflammatory properties can be considered a promising candidate for treatment of COVID-19 that should be further evaluated in a randomized controlled trial for inhaled and / or intravenous treatment.
  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">NCT04799873</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">Alpha-1-Antitrypsin-Deficiency in COVID-19</td></tr></table>
  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 10.1101/2021.03.30.21254604: (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">Sera were tested for SARS-CoV-2 IgG using three high-throughput commercial assays: Abbott Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG (IgG targeting the N-protein; qualitative result only) [18], Abbott Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG II Quant (IgG targeting the RBD-region of the S-protein; quantitative result) [18], and DiaSorin Liaison (trimeric S-protein assay targeting the S1/S2 regions of the S-protein; quantitative result) [19].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott Architect</div><div>suggested: (Abbott ARCHITECT i1000sr System, RRID:SCR_019328)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 principal limitation in our findings is that they only demonstrate the production of vaccine-induced antibodies in response to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and their quantification. Correlations of specific titre levels to protection or vaccine efficacy cannot be made as the study is not designed or powered for this purpose. As the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 vaccines are different products, it is difficult to comment on the difference in median titres seen for the same time points on the same assay (which was observed in general to be lower in the mRNA-1273 group, despite a higher proportion of COVID-19 recovered individuals). This may reflect differing median ages of the two groups or alternatively be reflective of responses to varying vaccine products which is an artifact that could be corrected with an international standard for COVID-19 serology.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.02.21254809: (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: Ethics: The National Center for Global Health and Medicine ethics board approved this study (referral number NCGM-G-003494-08), and waived the need for informed consent from individual patients owing to the non-invasive, non-interventional nature of this observational study according to the local Ethical Guidelines20.<br>Consent: Ethics: The National Center for Global Health and Medicine ethics board approved this study (referral number NCGM-G-003494-08), and waived the need for informed consent from individual patients owing to the non-invasive, non-interventional nature of this observational study according to the local Ethical Guidelines20.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">(REDCap) electronic data capture tools13, 14, hosted at the datacenter in National Center for Global Health and Medicine.</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:
  Our study has several limitations. In some of our analyses, confounders were not eliminated. We did not consider treatments prior to and during hospitalization. As our data were collected from hundreds of healthcare facilities, treatment type, dosage, duration, and combination varied immensely. We plan to deliberate the analytical methodology further to evaluate the outcomes which are prone to be affected by in-hospital treatments. Data were collected from numerous facilities; therefore, accuracy may be questionable. Additionally, hotels were utilized as isolation facilities from April 2020, and participant selection might have altered thereafter. COVIREGI-JP is continuously open for new entry; the number of registrations is increasing, and subsequent results may vary from ours.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.04.21254884: (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 institutional review board of the Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh, approved the study protocol (Ref. no: BRF/ERB/2020/003).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Data were analyzed by SPSS 22.0 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has some limitations. The sample size was not large enough to evaluate the predictive performance of different parameters for death in diabetic patients. Besides, we could not collect data on the type of DM or new-onset DM.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254934: (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">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">IgG Testing: The measurement of anti-Covid-19 antibodies was performed using the Abbott Architect i1000SR instrument (Abbott Diagnostics, IL, USA) using the Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG quantitative kit and following manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Covid-19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IgG Testing: The measurement of anti-Covid-19 antibodies was performed using the Abbott Architect i1000SR instrument (Abbott Diagnostics, IL, USA) using the Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG quantitative kit and following manufacturer’s instructions.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott Architect</div><div>suggested: (Abbott ARCHITECT i1000sr System, RRID:SCR_019328)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitations of the study is the relatively small group of vaccinated patients after SARS CoV 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:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254024: (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
  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 10.1101/2021.04.05.21254921: (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: This study was approved by the ethics review board of CHUSJ on July 28th, 2020.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-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:
  Our findings need to be interpreted in light of a few limitations. First, data available for this analysis did not allow to disentangle the role and relative contribution of potential drivers of decreases in emergency visits. As such, whether there was really a delay in consultation and more severe presentations cannot be ascertained in this report. Second, our results represent visits at the two pediatric EDs in the province of Quebec and may therefore not be generalizable to other cities or countries, although the magnitude of change in ED visits is similar to other previously published studies. We were also limited to the information available in the electronic databases at each institution. For example, as the diagnostics were grouped into categories, it was not possible to tease out whether in a given category, there were increases in specific diagnoses. Finally, errors in the collection, entry and coding of data may occur, although errors in data should be evenly distributed between the two study periods.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254728

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.06.21254728: (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: This study was approved by the WCM Institutional Review Board (IRB).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">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">Thus, we designated patients to mutually exclusive self-identified categories: Hispanic (HISP); Non-Hispanic Black (NH-Black); Non-Hispanic White (NH-White); and Non-Hispanic Asian (NH-Asian) (Table 1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Non-Hispanic White</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 important limitations to consider in interpreting our results. First, our study has the typical limitations RWD data collection from EHR systems. However, use of RWD is advantageous because in the acute and fast-paced context of a deadly pandemic, urgency of saving lives precedes the priority of appropriate study designs and specialized data collection. However, completeness and accuracy of some variables that are typically part of self-reported intake surveys, including smoking status, medical history and loss of follow-up is debatable. The NDI application of SDOH is a powerful indicator of patients’ ‘placemats’ or integrated neighborhood-level determinants, which is often more predictive of health outcomes than direct measures of socioeconomic status. However, the NDI does not directly measure some key factors, such as systemic racism or social capital12 though the measures included in calculating the NDI are certainly influenced by these factors. (Supplemental Figure 3).
  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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.03.21254727

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.03.21254727: (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
  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/10.1101/2021.04.05.438500

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.05.438500: (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">Protein network analysis: Protein-protein interactions were analyzed by STRING [49].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STRING</div><div>suggested: (STRING, RRID:SCR_005223)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pathways and processes enrichment were analyzed with Metascape [17], which utilize various ontology sources such as KEGG Pathway, GO Biological Process, Reactome Gene Sets,</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Metascape</div><div>suggested: (Metascape, RRID:SCR_016620)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KEGG</div><div>suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GO Biological</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Autoantigen literature text mining: Every DS-affinity protein identified in this study was searched for specific autoantibodies reported in the PubMed literature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PubMed</div><div>suggested: (PubMed, RRID:SCR_004846)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Search keywords included the MeSH keyword “autoantibodies”, the protein name or its gene symbol, or alternative names and symbols.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MeSH</div><div>suggested: (MeSH, RRID:SCR_004750)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254683

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254683: (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">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">Serum samples of vaccinated dialysis patients (Table 1, Supplement for cohort details) were analyzed for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies ∼1 and ∼3-4 weeks after the second dose by anti-SARS-CoV-2-S1 IgG/IgA ELISA (Euroimmun, Lübeck, Germany).</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-S1 IgG/IgA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Potential neutralizing antibodies were tested by a surrogate virus neutralization test (sNT, cPass, Medac, Wedel, Germany) [6].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>sNT, cPass, Medac, Wedel, Germany) [6</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:
  Of note, in our dialysis cohort, three patients developed COVID-19 after first vaccination, of whom one died of COVID-19, underlining the need for ongoing non-pharmaceutical intervention after vaccinations, especially in these patients Limitations of our studies include the small cohort size and the use of only one mRNA vaccine. Therefore, further risk factors contributing to a negative immune response remain to be defined. Prospective studies with other vaccines against COVID-19, e.g., viral vector–based vaccines, will help to elucidate the efficacy of different vaccines in these patients. Moreover, antibody titer persistence in patients on dialysis might differ from otherwise healthy persons, which should be addressed in longitudinal observations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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/10.1101/2021.04.04.438420

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.04.438420: (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">Figures were drawn in GraphPad Prism v5 or WPS excel.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.02.438288

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.438288: (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">KEY RESOURCES TABLE: RESOURCE AVAILABILITY: EXPERIMENTAL MODEL AND SUBJECT DETAILS: METHOD DETAILS: QUANTIFICATION AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Data analyses were performed using Prism 7 (GraphPad Software).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  A limitation of this study is that the effects of the L452 and Y453 substitutions on viral pathogenicity, mortality and transmissibility remain unaddressed. To fully characterize the virological features of these mutants, further investigations using animal models and epidemiological data will be required. Nevertheless, here we showed direct evidence suggesting that the mutations in the RBM including L452R (in the B.1.427/429 lineage) and Y453F (in the B1.1.298 lineage) potentially escape from the HLA-A24-resticted cellular immunity, and further, the L452R mutant increase its replication capacity. Therefore, these variants, particularly those possessing the L452R mutations, such as the B.1.427/429 lineage, can be the potential threat for these countries and regions with predominant HLA-A24 individuals, and deep surveillance and tracing the epidemic of these variants will be urgently required.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank 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><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">Intermediate R&D preparations of swine glyco-humanized polyclonal antibody against SARS-CoV-2 have been prepared, presenting variable anti-SARS-CoV-2 binding activities 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-SARS-CoV-2 binding activities 17</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Spike/ACE-2 neutralization assay: An assay was developed to assess the properties of anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike antibodies to inhibit binding of ACE-2 to immobilized spike.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Anti-Spike RBD antibodies diluted in PBS-Tween-0.05%-1% skimmed milk (dilution range between 50 and 0.39 µg/mL) were then added and incubated for 30 min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Spike RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 1h incubation at room temperature and 3 washes, the mouse Fc tag was revealed with a specific HRP-conjugated anti-mouse IgG secondary antibody (diluted in in PBS-Tween-0.05%-1% skimmed milk powder at 1:1000, incubated 1h at RT and washed 3 times).</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">Viral stocks were generated using one passage of isolates on Vero cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CPE reduction assay was performed as follows: Vero E6 cells were seeded in 96-well clusters at a density of 5,000 cells/well 2 days before infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IC50 were analyzed by nonlinear regression using a four-parameter dosage-response variable slope model with the GraphPad Prism 8.0.2 software (GraphPad Software, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
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  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">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 SARS-CoV-2 RBD-IgG: CE-marked coronavirus IgG antibody detection kit (batch number: NCOG20200808B) from Beijing WanTai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China) was used to test the titer of RBD-IgG.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 RBD-IgG: CE-marked coronavirus IgG antibody detection kit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CE-marked coronavirus 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">Plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT): Neutralizing titers were defined on Vero cells by PRNT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The serum-virus mixture was added into pre-cultured Vero E6 cell monolayers for 1-h incubation at 37°C under 5% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The proportion of plasma Rh-positive blood types (a total of 834 donors with blood type recorded) of A, B, O, and AB was 34.89%, 27.46%, 29.38%, and 8.27%, respectively (Figure 6B).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AB</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: GraphPad Prism 9.0 was used for statistical analysis.</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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  <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: Eligible women were: (n=84 pregnant; n=31 lactating; or n=16 non-pregnant and of reproductive age (18-45); greater than or equal to 18 years old, able to provide informed consent, and receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.<br>IRB: The study was approved by the MGH Institutional Review Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Eligible women were: (n=84 pregnant; n=31 lactating; or n=16 non-pregnant and of reproductive age (18-45); greater than or equal to 18 years old, able to provide informed consent, and receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.</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-dependent neutrophil phagocytosis: Antibody-dependent neutrophil phagocytosis was measured by a flow cytometry-based assay (48).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antibody-dependent neutrophil phagocytosis</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Antibody-dependent</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">PE-coupled mouse anti-human detection antibodies (Southern Biotech) were used to detect antigen-specific antibody binding.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human detection antibodies (Southern Biotech)</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antigen-specific</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell lines: THP-1 cells used in phagocytic assays were grown in RPMI media supplemented with 10% FBS, 5% penn/strep, 5% L-glutamine, 5% HEPES buffer (pH 7.2) and 0.5% 2-Mercaptoethanol, and maintained at 2.5×105 cells/ml.</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><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Univariate statistical analysis: For univariate data analysis, statistics were run using GraphPad Prism version 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">Multivariate analysis: Multivariate analyses were performed in R (version 4.0.0) and Python (version 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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.04.04.438417: (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">Identification of mutations: The sequences were aligned using MEGA-X, and the single nucleotide polymorphisms were analyzed using the SNiPlay pipeline by uploading aligned Fasta format file (https://sniplay.southgreen.fr/cgi-bin/analysis_v3.cgi)(Dereeper et al., 2011).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SNiPlay</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The Datamonkey adaptive evolution server (http://www.datamonkey.org) was used to identify sites where only some of the branches have undergone selective pressure.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>http://www.datamonkey.org</div><div>suggested: (DataMonkey, RRID:SCR_010278)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The codon usage data of different hosts were retrieved from the codon usage database (http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/), and the relative synonymous codon usages (RSCUs) were analyzed using MEGA software.</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Comparisons of the predicted protein structures and pairwise comparisons were analyzed using PyMOL software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PyMOL</div><div>suggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Selective coefficient index: The selection coefficient index (S) of all SARS-CoV-2 codons was estimated by the FMutSel0 model in the program CODEML (PAML package) (Yang and Nielsen, 2008), The fitness parameter of the most common residues at each location is fixed to 0, while the other fitness parameters are limited to −20 < F < 20.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PAML</div><div>suggested: (PAML, RRID:SCR_014932)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The figures were mapped by the software PRISM GraphPad 5.0.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 28. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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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">The following reagents used in assay development were purchased from New England BioLabs:</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>New England BioLabs</div><div>suggested: (New England Biolabs, RRID:SCR_013517)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">LAMP Master Mix (15 µL Reaction Volume) setup: The RT-LAMP reaction mixes (see supplementary table 1) included two primer mixes (the E1-LF + N2-LF or EN* mix for the COVID-19 test, and the rActin mix as an internal control).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>LAMP</div><div>suggested: (LAMP, RRID:SCR_001740)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">IRB: This study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) at UCSF (UCSF IRB #11-05207) 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 UCSF (UCSF IRB #11-05207) 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">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">and conserved regions in each target gene were identified using BioEditor 7.2.5.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioEditor</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Primers and probes were designed to target the most conserved regions of each of the target genes of the viral genome, using Primer3plus software and following general rules of real-time PCR design.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Primer3plus</div><div>suggested: (Primer3Plus, RRID:SCR_003081)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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: Subjects: Following informed consent (IRB protocol #823392), samples were collected beginning a median of 4 days after hospitalization (generally within one week of hospitalization or identification of COVID+ status if post-admission).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For analyses comparing groups with different numbers of samples per subject, PERMANOVA testing used specimens randomly subsampled 1000 times to one sample per patient and mean p values reported.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Random forest classification was implemented using the randomForest package (v4.6-14) in R.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>randomForest</div><div>suggested: (RandomForest Package in R, RRID:SCR_015718)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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. Many patients presented quite ill, and when initially sampled were already intubated or had reached high WHO scores. Thus, the ability to distinguish clinical course based on microbiome markers may not necessarily reflect prior predictive power. Our patients were heterogenous, with extensive use of antibiotics that could influence the bacterial microbiome. We enrolled subjects early in the COVID-19 pandemic when clinical management and outcomes may not have been optimal. We did not analyze local lung mucosal immune/inflammatory markers, and systemic immune profiling was available for only a subset of patients. There is no gold standard for diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia superinfection in this population, limiting the ability to definitively link ETA findings. Finally, lower respiratory tract microbiome information was only available from the patients who were intubated. In summary, we report profound dysbiosis of the respiratory tract bacterial and viral microbiome in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, which differs from that of non-COVID patients, exhibits accelerated destabilization over time, and associates with disease severity and systemic immune profiles. In intubated patients the lung microbiome is dysbiotic with frequent enrichment of Staphylococcus. The small commensal viruses, Anelloviridae and Redondoviridae, were the strongest discriminators of patient intubation. This work provides a basis for further studies to delineate mechani...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">IRB: This project was approved by the Valle de Hebron Hospital Institutional Clinical Ethical Board of HUVH (PR(AG)113/2021)</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-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">Methods: Antibody responses were measured in the clinical microbiology laboratory using two widely applied commercial CLIA assays; antibodies (IgG, IgM and IgA) to nucleocapsid (N) SARS-CoV-2 protein were detected by the qualitative Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 test in a Cobas 8800 system autoanalyzer (both from Roche); IgG antibodies to the Spike protein were measured by the quantitative LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG test in a XL Analyzer (DiaSorin, Cypress, CA, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA</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">GraphPad Prism v8.01 software was used for both statistical analysis and graphical representation.</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:
  However, they have limitations in the applicability compared with whole IGRA blood assays used here when it comes to use them in a clinical laboratory (13). Availability of a complementary correlate of protection in addition to serology may be invaluable for to two groups, 1) HCW and other professionals with vulnerability factors that need to be reassured of being immunized to SARS-CoV2 before reassuming tasks that have a risk of accidental re-exposure and 2) for immunosuppressed patients that fail to make a measurable antibody response. IGRA Spike peptides test may constitute a very valuable tool in this context as can be applied to a large number of samples producing results in 24h and with promising sensitivity and specificity.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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 10.1101/2021.04.05.438465: (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 “UCSF Chimera 1.14” package (72) was employed for all molecular visualizations and representations too.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Chimera</div><div>suggested: (Chimera, RRID:SCR_002959)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The linear sequences of the SARS-CoV-1 and 2 S proteins are available in UniProt with the ids P59594 and P0DTC2 for SARS-CoV-1, 2 (wt), and B.1.351, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UniProt</div><div>suggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Alignments of pairwise sequences were obtained by the EMBOSS Needle server (91) with default settings.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EMBOSS</div><div>suggested: (EMBOSS, RRID:SCR_008493)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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: 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">NCT04649151</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Reactogenicity, and Effectiv…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04368728</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Active, not recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study to Describe the Safety, Tolerability, Immunogenicity, …</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04796896</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A Study to Evaluate Safety and Effectiveness of mRNA-1273 Va…</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 42, 52 and 45. 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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https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.05.438352

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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 system was also used to extract 1000 random genomes from the tree to visualize newly sequenced genomes on the background of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variation.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Additionally, we use the “view in Genome Browser” option to manually scan sequences for mutations from known VOCs and for other mutations in similar genomic positions within the Spike protein within the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser (Fernandes et al. 2020).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser</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 caution that there are important limitations to this study. (1) Our relatively small sample size imposes substantial uncertainty in our estimated frequencies, (2) we did not detect B.1.x in the most recent 16 samples from late March (which represent only a fraction of positive cases, see Table S3), and (3) our samples were taken opportunistically from positive tests and are not a random sample of infections or cases. The non-random sampling and underlying phylogeny imposes complex dependencies on the data that are not part of the simple logistic regression analysis (see similar caveats for early investigations of other variants of SARS-CoV-2, e.g. Volz, Hill, et al. 2021; Volz, Mishra, et al. 2021). Comparison against publicly available samples from across the United States indicates the B.1.x lineage is present in several US states including New York, Florida, Georgia, and Indiana. Additionally, phylogenetic evidence suggests successful establishment and ongoing transmission in each of those states as well as others (Figure 4). B.1.x does not appear to be a recombinant: Despite the fact that this lineage shares several mutations with established VOCs, homoplastic substitution and not recombination is the most likely explanation. Recent work suggests that recombination has occurred in SARS-CoV-2 (VanInsberghe et al. 2021; Varabyou et al. 2020). Nonetheless, recombination should produce an extended stretch of sequence similarly between the donor and recipient lineage, and v...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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 10.1101/2021.04.03.438113: (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">Retrieval of crystal structures: Crystal structures of spike protein (PDBID-7AD1), ACE2 (PDBID-6ACG) and antibody CR3022 (PDBID 6YLA) were retrieved from PDB RCSB (https://www.rcsb.org/).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PDBID-6ACG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Protein-protein and antibody-protein interactions were visualized by LigPlot plus v2.2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Protein-protein</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody-protein</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Molecular interactions of antibody CR3022 and ACE2 receptor with RBD variants were performed by antibody script under antibody loop numbering scheme i.e. KABAT Scheme and DIMPLOT script algorithm package built into LigPlot plus v2.2 respectively.</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">It was found that seven structurally changed variants (F486L, Q493N, Indian double mutant (L452R & E484Q), R408I, L455Y, K417G and E484K) have high docking score against ACE2 receptor compared with wild type and less docking score against antibody (CR3022) unlike wild type (Table2).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>E484K</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>antibody (CR3022</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Table2</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">Docking analysis: Docking of RBD mutant variants with selected targets (ACE2 receptor and antibody structure CR3022) was carried out by PatchDock server (Ranjan et al. 2020) by choosing parameter RMSD esteem 4.0 and complex type as default.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PatchDock</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 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: Participants signed a written informed consent that included permission to link to the hospital administrative databases for information on professional role (physician, nurse/midwife, nurse assistant, or other), sick leave records and hospital unit assignment (s).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies were analysed using three different virus protein variants, namely the trimeric full-length Spike protein (14) expressed in HEK cells, the Spike S1 domain expressed in CHO cells and the Nucleocapsid protein expressed in E. coli.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Captured IgG antibodies were detected by fluorescent anti-hIgG (Invitrogen, H10104) and reported as relative fluorescence intensity (AU).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-hIgG</div><div>suggested: (Antibodies-Online Cat# ABIN288163, RRID:AB_10795674)</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 IgG antibodies were analysed using three different virus protein variants, namely the trimeric full-length Spike protein (14) expressed in HEK cells, the Spike S1 domain expressed in CHO cells and the Nucleocapsid protein expressed in E. coli.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300192/p777_HEK293, RRID:CVCL_0045)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 603479/p746_CHO, RRID:CVCL_0213)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">NCT04411576</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">Current and Past SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 in Health…</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: 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">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:
  The limitations of our study include: 1) it relies on self-report which may be reporting bias, particularly concerning whether work can be completed entirely from home - it is possible that whilst our respondents reported that they believed they could work from home, we do not know the circumstances of their employment to know whether this reflects the requirements of their role, 2) use of an online sample which, even though it has been weighted to match major demographic features of the UK population, may nevertheless not be fully representative, 3) collinearity among predictors, and 4) possible omission of other relevant variables.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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 as exempt by the Institutional Review Board at [insert name of author’s IRB].</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 two primary limitations. Firstly, the study used a convenience sample of families of people with ASD and was not representative of households of people with ASD. The second limitation was that this study did not use the full 18 USDA food insecurity item set. Despite these limitations, this study establishes a baseline estimate of food insecurity for households of people with ASD during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Implications: Food insecurity has long term ramifications and the COVID-19 pandemic has made its effects much more prevalent especially for households of people with ASD. For people with ASD and their families, food insecurity could have additional impact on their physical and mental health status. Policy makers should consider strategies to improving access to preferred and medically necessary food. Additional efforts should be undertaken to improve community design especially at the intersection of neighborhood, race, and disability status.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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 did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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: Ethical statement: This study followed the Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy study (STARD) guidelines and was favourable approved by the local clinical ethic committee board called “Comité de protection des Personnes Nord Ouest” N° IRB 2020-A02758-31.<br>Consent: Informed oral consent for participation was obtained from each participant, in accordance with French law.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 lack of identification of the order of collection and the size of the study ensures that the swabs were randomly distributed.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Testing methods: The ID NOW COVID-19 assay (Abbott, Chicago, Il, USA) is an isothermal nucleic acid amplification-based.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Abbott</div><div>suggested: (Abbott, RRID:SCR_010477)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has several limitations. First, the ID NOW COVID-19 assay itself has only one target, the RdRP gene. To date, the published isothermal amplification technology tests did not evaluate SARS-CoV-2 using two target genes (18). Second, this work was conducted during an epidemic peak and so the results should be viewed in the context of the conditions during such a period. Positive predictive values decrease when tests are performed with a lower prevalence of the disease, thus the results cannot be extrapolated to a lower prevalence period. Third, this study was conducted on the relatively small number of samples in a single care center setting. Therefore the results may be specific to the population of this center and may not be applicable to another patient group such as children for example. Use of rapid diagnostic test at triage in other care settings would depend on the organization of each ED and, importantly, on the availability of compliant and trained staff.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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: After the ethics committee approval was obtained between 30 March and 1 December, a total of 131 patients hospitalized in anesthesia intensive care units of our hospital due to covid19 were retrospectively reviewed.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">IRB: It will be identified using the Youden index Ethical consideration: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine-Alexandria University/ Egypt (IRB No:00012098).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Based on the assumptions of AUC =0.5 for the null hypothesis and AUC=0.6 for the alternative hypothesis, allocation ratio between vaccinated and non-vaccinated population was estimated to be 1 to 2, power= 0.80, and alpha error= 0.05, the minimum sample size required was estimated at 219 participants using MedCalc software application (version 19.6.3).</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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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
  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: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on pages 24, 33 and 35. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.02.21254856

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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:
  There are limitations in the estimated rates of deep vein thrombosis in recent years. Lower rates reported in older studies27 are likely because they included only the first incident case, whereas we included recurrent cases at least one year apart. On the other hand, the overall rate of deep vein thromboses in our study is much lower than the adult hospitalization rate reported in the USA during 2007–2009.28 The higher USA rates are likely because that study included multiple hospitalizations in a year, and they also included cases that developed during hospitalization from other conditions whereas our study looked at deep vein thrombosis on admission only. There is a lack of data on the incidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation, a systemic coagulopathy that is always secondary to an underlying clinical condition, such as sepsis, malignancy, trauma, acute pancreatitis, burns, or obstetric complications.29 As such, studies often estimate the burden of disseminated intravascular coagulation for the underlying conditions separately. The incidence of the first episode of disseminated intravascular coagulation in ICU admitted adult patients in the USA was 18.6 per 100,000 person-years in 2010,30 which is far higher than the rates we have estimated. The estimated overall incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis in our study is similar to the overall hospitalization rate of 1.75 per 100,000/year in Norway during 2011–201731 and 1.32 per 100,000/year in Finland during 2005–...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement 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/10.1101/2021.03.24.21254188

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.24.21254188: (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">SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG antibodies were measured in serum samples by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Combining these with some additional limitations of indoor social activities and online classes for secondary school students could help to replicate the average contact rate of summer 2020, compensating for opening of elementary schools. As any model, our model has limitations. An important one is that protection against (re-)infection after natural infection and vaccination is permanent over the time-scale of our analyses (almost two years). This frequently used assumption [26–28, 44, 47] leads to that in our model, theoretically, SARS-CoV-2 can be eliminated from the population. However, as we discussed recently [56] and as addressed in several conceptual modeling studies [57–59], accumulating evidence suggests that after the initial pandemic phase SARS-CoV-2 is likely to be transitioning to endemicity and continued circulation. Specifically, recent data from individual-level studies point to that detectable levels of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 providing immunity against reinfection can wane on the time scale of a few months to few years following exposure, as shown by our group [60] and corroborated with findings of other studies [61–63]. However, the immunity to SARS-CoV-2 depending on a combination of B- and T-cell-mediated responses elicited during primary SARS-CoV-2 infection could reduce susceptibility to and infectiousness of the following infections and offer protection against severe disease, i.e. COVID-19 [64]. The estimation of the model parameters and evaluation ...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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/10.1101/2021.03.26.21254425

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.26.21254425: (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: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Harvard University.<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">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 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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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.01.21254495

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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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  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 the ethics committees of the universities of Marburg and Münster, Germany, in accordance with 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">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Analyses were performed using SPSS 27 α statistical software (IBM Corp.).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SPSS</div><div>suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Figures were designed using Microsoft Excel (Version 16.46) and ggplot2 running under R (Version 4.0.3</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ggplot2</div><div>suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Limitations: Several limitations should be noted. The current study did not include a full diagnostic interview at mid-pandemic follow-up, only one conducted for baseline data collection. More objective measures, including HAMD scores, assessed by trained raters and in-depth interviews would have improved the validity of the findings. We did not re-assess trait anxiety and social support during the pandemic. It might be argued that subjective fear and subjective isolation are simple expressions of these traits, manifesting irrespectively of the pandemic. However, in all three multiple regression models, Covid-19 impact was a significant predictor for subjective fear and isolation. Covid-19-related fear and isolation ratings seem to be influenced by both baseline trait variables (trait anxiety and social support), but also by Covid-19 impact. The found associations cannot be regarded as causal inferences, however, they might guide future research and hint at possible risk factors. We asked patients about subjective symptom changes between two time points, between January 2020 before the pandemic, and current symptoms during lockdown. While self-ratings are known to be associated with clinicians’ ratings of severity, it is still possible that current symptom load might have influenced symptom severity assessment of January 2020 (Tondo, Burrai, Scamonatti, Weissenburger, & Rush, 1988). Outlook: The Covid-19 pandemic constitutes an unfamiliar challenge to individuals and societie...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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 10.1101/2021.04.02.21254593: (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 reviewed by the Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board (IRB) and determined to be exempt from the requirement for IRB approval (45 CFR 46.104d, 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
  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">IRB: Study subjects: This study was approved by the Institutional Review board of the Charité (EA/152/20) and written informed consent was obtained from all participants included (38).<br>Consent: Study subjects: This study was approved by the Institutional Review board of the Charité (EA/152/20) and written informed consent was obtained from all participants included (38).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Surface staining was performed for 15 min in the presence of 1 mg/ml Beriglobin (CSL Behring) with the following fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies titrated to their optimal concentrations: CD3-FITC (REA613, Miltenyi), CD4-VioGreen (REA623, Miltenyi), CD8-VioBlue (REA734, Miltenyi), CD38-APC (REA671, Miltenyi), HLA-DR-PerCpVio700 (REA805, Miltenyi).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD8-VioBlue</div><div>suggested: (Miltenyi Biotec Cat# 130-094-152, RRID:AB_10828909)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD38-APC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">anti-human-IgG secondary antibody (Jackson Immunoresearch) was diluted 1:5000 (Jackson Immunoresearch) and added to the serum samples for 1 h at 30°C, then HRP substrate was added (TMB, Kem-En-Tec).</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">HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1 spike glycoprotein peptide pool 1 or 2 (all from JPT) at concentrations of 1 µg/ml per peptide respectively.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Vero E6 cells (1.6 ×105 cells/well) were seeded in 24-well plates overnight.</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">Plated Vero cells were incubated with 200µl serum-virus solution.</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">PBMCs were isolated by gradient density centrifugation according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Leucosep tubes, Greiner; Biocoll, Bio&SELL)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bio&SELL</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis and statistics: Study data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at Charité (43, 44).</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">Flow cytometry data were analyzed with FlowJo 10.6 (FlowJo LLC) and statistical analysis conducted with GraphPad Prism 9.</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><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.21253262: (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: 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">NCT04341142</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">Assessment of Serological Techniques for Screening Patients …</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.03.31.21254692

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254692: (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">The 48 controls included 40 females and 8 males, with a mean age and standard deviation of 38 ± 10.</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 protein staining, fixed cells were incubated with either control or COVID serum (diluted to 10%) and polyclonal antibody to neutrophil elastase (Abcam Ab21595) diluted 1:100 in blocking buffer for 1 hour at 4°C, followed by fluorochrome-conjugated DyLight594 anti-human IgG (Thermo Fisher) and FITC-conjugated secondary (Southern Biotech) for 1 hour at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>neutrophil elastase</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">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td 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 with GraphPad Prism software version 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:
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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">Dilutions are inoculated onto susceptible E6-Vero cells (ATCC) and incubated for 1 h to facilitate infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>E6-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">Fitting was performed using KaleidaGraph v4.1 non-linear least squares routine.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>KaleidaGraph</div><div>suggested: (KaleidaGraph, RRID:SCR_014980)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.03.31.21254685: (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">UEES generated 33 whole genome sequences through Illumina sequencing on a MiniSeq platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA).</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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To determine the viral genetic diversity circulating in the country during the sampling period, all sequences from Ecuador were phylogenetically assigned under the global Pango lineage system using the Pangolin v2.2.2 tool (https://virological.org/t/pangolin-web-application-release/482).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Pangolin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The tree for the systematically-subsampled data set was re-rooted by heuristically searching for the root placement that minimises the mean squared residual of a regression of sequence sample date against root-to-tip genetic distance, calculated using TempEst v1.5.3 (33), to maximise the temporal signal of the data set.</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">Parameter convergence was assessed using the effective sample size (ESS) estimates of the combined chains using Tracer v1.7.1 (37).</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">To identify nodes associated with transmission lineages in Ecuador, we used a discrete phylogeographic model consisting of a two-state discrete trait analysis (DTA) (40) implemented in BEAST v1.10.4 (34).</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:
  The emergence of B.1.1 in Europe and North America around February 2020 (43) might suggest these regions contributed to seeding the epidemic in this province of Ecuador (despite the limitations on identifying exact source locations due to poor surveillance in many countries). B.1.1.74, the most prevalent lineage in Ecuador, is descended from B.1.1 and was more frequently sampled in Guayas during the early months of the epidemic (Fig S16), further revealing the role of locations where B.1.1 was prevalent as importation sources during the epidemic’s first wave. However, the high proportion of singletons observed in Guayas also suggests that onward transmission of introduced virus was less common. Insights from regions sampled at very high intensities, such as the United Kingdom, show that the majority of introductions lead to small, transient, dead-end transmission lineages, whereas a smaller number of introductions lead to larger and longer-lasting transmission lineages (15). If this phenomenon is a general property of the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, as appears to be the case given similar early observations in Brazil (5), Panama (48), Uruguay (49), Spain (50) and the Netherlands (51), we can expect that many of the introductions to Guayas led to few new cases, and that most of the ongoing transmission was derived from only a few introductions. The larger transmission lineages identified here suggest that virus transmission was high between neighbouring and well-con...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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 10.1101/2021.04.01.21254679: (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">Using STATA version 16 (Statacorp, College Station, TX) and the function bayes we calculated the posterior probabilities of (a) any benefit (OR <1) and (b) a modest but clinically important benefit estimated as absolute risk difference of at least 0.5% (number needed to treat <=200) or 1% (number needed to treat <=100).</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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find 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">Each of the condition groups (e.g., ASD + ID, ASD + DD, ASD, etc.), coded as dummy variables, were entered along with gender (male; female) and age-groups (0-18 years; 19 – 29 years; 30 – 39 years; 40 – 49 years; 50 – 59 years; 60 – 69 years; 70 years and older) using the step-wise forward logistic regression with a significance level of 0.3 required to allow the variable into the model and a significance level of 0.35 required to allow the variable to stay into the model with each subsequent entry.</td></tr></table>
  Table 2: Resources
  No key resources detected.
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  An additional limitation is that condition identification was based on the ICD-10 diagnostic codes that may miss some individuals. Further, a substantial proportion of private claims data do not report on race/ethnicity, making it difficult to examine disparities in experiences (Ng, Ye, Ward, Haffer, & Scholle, 2017). Factors indicative of social and economic vulnerability, including living situation, would likely present more nuanced and policy-relevant findings. Future studies that employ natural language processing or medical record review to identify COVID-19, people with ASD, and other important factors related to hospitalization and length of stay would be useful for extending the present work and further characterizing the impact of COVID-19 on the ASD population.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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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">Animals were randomly assigned to be euthanized at 2, 4, 7, 14, or 28-days post infection (dpi).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 investigators were blinded to the group assignments.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Animal experiments: Male and female golden Syrian hamsters (7-8 weeks of age) were purchased from Envigo (Haslett, MI).</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: Hamster antibody ELISA protocol was modified from human COVID-19 antibody ELISA protocol described previously (14).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>COVID-19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washing plates 3 times, HRP-conjugated secondary IgG (1:10000, Abcam, MA, USA), IgA (1:250, Brookwood Biomedical, AL, USA) or IgM (1:250, Brookwood Biomedical, AL, USA) antibodies were added.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HRP-conjugated secondary IgG</div><div>suggested: (Creative Diagnostics Cat# LAB-22, RRID:AB_2489589)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA</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">To obtain whole inactivated SARS-CoV-2, VeroTMPRSS2 cells were infected at a MOI of 0.01 and the infected cell culture supernatant was collected at 72 hours post infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VeroTMPRSS2</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">Briefly, tissue homogenates were 10-fold serially diluted in infection media (CM with 2.5% instead of 10% FBS), transferred in sextuplicate into the 96-well plates confluent with Vero-E6-TMPRSS2 cells, incubated at 370C for 4 days, and stained with naphthol blue-black solution for visualization.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-E6-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">Statistical Analyses: Statistical analyses were done in GraphPad Prism 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">NCT04359329</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">Estrogen Patch for COVID-19 Symptoms</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04539626</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">Estrogen Therapy in Non-severe COVID-19 Patients</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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  Thank 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:
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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: Ethics and biosafety statement: All in vivo experiments were performed in accordance with Animal Study Proposal RML 2020-046-E approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Rocky Mountain Laboratories (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) and carried out by certified staff in an Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International-accredited facility, according to the institution’s guidelines for animal use, following the guidelines and basic principles in the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the Animal Welfare Act, and the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">were randomly divided into four groups of three.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Chest radiographs were interpreted in a blinded manner by a board-certified clinical veterinarian.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Animals: In the first experiment, 12 adult male rhesus macaques aged 2 1/2 to 5 yrs.</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">mouse/rhesus CDR-grafted form of the depleting anti-CD8α antibody, M-T807 (each at 10mg/ml prepared in pharmaceutical grade by the NIH Nonhuman Primate Reagent Resource), 3) both CD4R1 and M-T807 or 4) physiological saline.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD8α</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Specific staining was detected using SARS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibody (Sino Biological cat#40143-MM05) at a 1:1000 dilution, CD4 antibody (abcam cat#ab133616) at a 1:100 dilution, CD8 antibody (Sino Biological cat#10980-T24) at a 1:500 dilution, and CD20 (Thermo Scientific cat#RB-9013) at a 1:250 dilution.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD4</div><div>suggested: (Abcam Cat# ab133616, RRID:AB_2750883)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD8</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD20</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# MA1-22864, RRID:AB_558114)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Meso Scale Discovery V-PLEX SARS-CoV-2 Panel 1 Kit (Rockville, MD) was used for determining antibody binding for IgG (K15359U) and IgM (K15360U) specific for SARS-CoV-2 S1 RBD.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>K15359U</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgM ( K15360U</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were incubated for 30 min with the following cell surface antibodies: BUV661-anti-CD45 (D058-128, BD Biosciences 741657 Lot 0198214), PE-Cy7-anti-CD20 (2H7, BD Biosciences 560735 Lot 0170481), BV786-anti-CD3 (SP34-2, BD Biosciences 563918 Lot 0133645), FITC-anti-CD8 (DK25, Millipore FCMAB176F Lot 3398058), and Pacific Blue-anti-CD4 (OKT4, BioLegend 317424 Lot B258189) in 2% FBS PBS supplemented with Brilliant Stain Buffer (BD Biosciences).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PE-Cy7-anti-CD20</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BV786-anti-CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>OKT4</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 317424, RRID:AB_571953)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were incubated for 30 min with the following antibodies: PE-anti-Foxp3 (259D, BioLegend 3202080 Lot B293618) and AF700-anti-Ki-67 (B56, BD Biosciences 561277 Lot 9315354)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PE-anti-Foxp3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>AF700-anti-Ki-67 ( B56</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">Pseudovirions were prepared in HEK293T cells by co-transfecting 60 μg of HIV-1NLΔEnv-NanoLuc and CMV-SARS-CoV-2 SΔ19 at a 3:2 ratio in T-175 flasks using the calcium phosphate method, then were concentrated by ultracentrifugation in a sucrose cushion 31.</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">We utilized A549-ACE2 cells 32 as target cells as these cells attached better to the culture plate compared to 293T-ACE2 cells 30, allowing for extensive washes given that the nanoluciferase reporter yielded high backgrounds.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-ACE2</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_YZ65)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Morphometric analysis: CD4 and CD8 IHC stained sections were scanned with an Aperio ScanScope XT (Aperio Technologies, Inc., Vista, CA) and analyzed using the ImageScope Positive Pixel Count algorithm (version 9.1).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ImageScope</div><div>suggested: (ImageScope, RRID:SCR_014311)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Graphpad Prism 8 was used for preparation of graphs and statistical analysis.</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">Best-fit nonlinear regression curves were constructed based on a two-phase decay equation (GraphPad Prism 8), and 80% inhibition values (20% infection) were interpolated.</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 multi-parameter data were collected within the BSL-4 using a Cytoflex LX (Beckman Coulter) and analyzed using FlowJo software (version 10.7.1; TreeStar, 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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Statistical analysis was performed in R version 4.0.4.12 This study was approved by Public Health Ontario’s Research Ethics Board.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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:
  Limitations of this study include potential misclassification of secondary cases as index cases and small sample sizes in some subgroups. We may have underestimated secondary attack rates as we only captured diagnosed secondary cases and we lacked testing data on all household contacts; however, we do not believe this would be differential by VOC status of the index case. Ontario implemented more stringent measures for close contacts of all cases (not just VOC cases) in early February in response to VOC introductions, including increased frequency of testing during quarantine and outbreaks.15 If household contacts were more likely to test once VOC status was known, a similar increase in the risk ratio would be expected across symptom status, suggesting an independent effect of asymptomatic and presymptomatic VOC cases on transmission. This study provides strong evidence of increased transmissibility in households due to VOCs and suggests that asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission may be of particular importance for VOCs. Our study suggests that more aggressive public health measures will be needed to control VOCs. While measures effective for persons with unknown disease status such as physical distancing and masking may continue to be highly effective, measures focused on symptomatic individuals, such as public health contact tracing, may be increasingly ineffective unless extremely rapid. Ongoing research is needed to understand mechanisms of VOC transmissibility to...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
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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: Ethics statement: The animal work was conducted with the approval of the regional Ethical Committee on Animal Experiments (Stockholms Norra Djurförsöksetiska Nämnd).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Using a Generalized Linear Model, we model the daily variant counts with a multinomial distribution (and a log-link function), with underlying frequencies parameterized by a linear combination of 400 randomly drawn Fourier basis features (aka. a “Random Kitchen Sink” 22) to allow frequencies to vary non-linearly as a function of time.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Pseudotyped neutralization assays: HEK293T and HEK293T-hACE2 (human:female) cells were cultured in a humidified 37°C incubator (5% CO2) in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (Gibco) supplemented with 10% Fetal Bovine Serum and 1% Penicillin/Streptomycin, and were passaged when nearing confluency using 1X Trypsin-EDTA.</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">Pseudotyped viruses sufficient to generate 50,000 relative light units (RLUs) were incubated with serial dilutions of plasma for 60 min at 37°C in a 96-well plate, and then 15,000 HEK293T-hACE2 cells were added to each well.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T-hACE2</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">ID50 titers were interpolated as the reciprocal plasma dilution where RLUs were reduced by 50% relative to control wells in the absence of serum, fitting a four-parameter logistic curve in Prism 9 (GraphPad Software).</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: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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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">Search Strategy: To evaluate the usability of rapid tests compare with RT-PCR, we systematically searched the electronic database, including Scopus, Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, Web of sciences (WOS), and Cochrane library using Mesh-standardized keywords: (((Rapid antigen detection test * OR RDT*) OR “Rapid Antigen Test ”[Mesh] OR “point of care testing”) AND (“Real-time PCR”</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>EMBASE</div><div>suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Cochrane library</div><div>suggested: (Cochrane Library, RRID:SCR_013000)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">To this end, 10 fastq raw data files generated by the MinION Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) were downloaded from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) repository.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MinION</div><div>suggested: (MinION, RRID:SCR_017985)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were mapped to the reference genome MN908947.3 with minimap2 2.17 [5] and SAM files were processed using samtools 1.9. [6] The calling of the mutations was performed using freebayes 1.3.2 [7].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>samtools</div><div>suggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After quality filtering with vcffilter, the resulting VCF file and a dummy metadata (including dummy patients characteristics as well as preanalytical, analytical and bioinformatics parameters) file were processed with the VariantExperiment and the VariantAnnotation packages in order to create the desired object of the VariantExperiment class.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>VariantAnnotation</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">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">After blocking in 5% milk powder/PBS for 30 min, cells were incubated with a primary antibody targeting SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein (Sino Biological, cat. 40143-R001) at a 1:2000 dilution for 1h.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein</div><div>suggested: (Bioss Cat# bsm-41414M, RRID:AB_2848129)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SARS-CoV-2 pseudotyped VSV was diluted 1:30 in media in the presence of 100 ng/mL anti-VSV-G antibody (clone 8G5F11, Absolute Antibody) and added 1:1 to each antibody dilution.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-VSV-G</div><div>suggested: (Absolute Antibody Cat# Ab01401-2.0, RRID:AB_2883992)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For antibody-mediated inhibition of trans-infection, cells were pre-incubated with 10 ug/mL anti-SIGLEC1 antibody (Biolegend, clone 7-239) for 30 min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SIGLEC1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were incubated with primary antibodies anti-DC-SIGN/L-SIGN (Biolegend, cat. 845002, 1:500</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-DC-SIGN/L-SIGN</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The cells were resuspended in 100 μL of FACS buffer prepared with 0.5% BSA (Sigma-Aldrich) in PBS containing the primary antibodies at a 1:100 dilution: mouse anti-DC/L-SIGN (Biolegend, cat. 845002), rabbit anti-DC-SIGN (Cell Signaling, cat. 13193), mouse anti-SIGLEC1 (Biologend, cat. 346002) or goat anti-ACE2 (R&D Systems, cat. AF933).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-DC/L-SIGN</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-DC-SIGN</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 1 h incubation on ice, the cells were washed two times and resuspended in FACS buffer containing the Alexa Fluor-488-labeled secondary antibodies at a 1:200 dilution: goat anti-mouse (Invitrogen cat.</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">Takara), Vero E6 (ATCC), MRC5 (Sigma-Aldrich), A549 (ATCC) or HeLa (ATCC) cells were transduced in the presence of 6 ug/mL polybrene (Millipore) for 24 h.</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">Single cell clones were derived from the A549-ACE2-TMPRSS2 cell line, all other cell lines represent cell pools.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A549-ACE2-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Serial 1:4 dilutions of the monoclonal antibodies were incubated with 200 pfu of SARS-CoV-2 (isolate USA-WA1/2020, passage 3, passaged in Vero E6 cells) for 30 min at 37°C in a BSL-3 facility.</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">For viral neutralization, cells were seeded into black-walled, clear-bottom 96-well plates at 20,000 cells/well (293T cells were seeded into poly-L-lysine-coated wells at 35,000 cells/well) and cultured overnight at 37°C.</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">Trans-infection: Parental HeLa cells or HeLa cells stably expressing DC-SIGN, L-SIGN or SIGLEC1 were seeded at 5,000 cells per well in black-walled clear-bottom 96-well 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></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After 2 h inoculation, cells were washed four times with complete medium and 10,000 VeroE6-TMPRSS2 cells per well were added and incubated 17-20 h at 37°C for trans-infection.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell-cell fusion of CHO-S cells: CHO cells stably expressing SARS-CoV-2 S-glycoprotein were seeded in 96 well plates for microscopy (Thermo Fisher Scientific) at 12’500 cells/well and the following day, different concentrations of mAbs and nuclei marker Hoechst (final dilution 1:1000) were added to the cells and incubated for additional 24h hours.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_Y503)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometry analysis for DC-SIGN, L-SIGN, SIGLEC1 and ACE-2: HEK293T cells expressing DC-SIGN, L-SIGN, SIGLEC1 or ACE2 were resuspended at 4×106 cells/mL and 100 μL per well were seeded onto V-bottom 96-well plates (Corning, 3894).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Micrographs were recorded using the Leginon software48 on a 100kV FEI Tecnai G2 Spirit with a Gatan Ultrascan 4000 4k x 4k CCD camera at 67,000 nominal magnification.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Leginon</div><div>suggested: (Leginon, RRID:SCR_016731)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Selected particle images were subjected to the Bayesian polishing procedure implemented in Relion3.054 before performing another round of non-uniform refinement in CryoSPARC followed by per-particle defocus refinement and again non-uniform refinement.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 31. 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">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:
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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 the Ministry of Health and Population Ethics Committees (MOHP-EC) and was registered in Egypt no. MOHP_COVID-19_Ver1.1.<br>Consent: A total of 94 patients were finally enrolled in the study after exclusion of patients who did not meet the criteria and written 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">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Units containing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies but not qualified as high titer by the Ortho VITROS SARS- CoV-2 total antibody are considered low titer units.</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:
  Limitations: Due to the clinical features of included patients; the investigators could not conduct a randomized controlled trial. However, we understand that a controlled study may further help in establishing the dynamics of the viremia of SARS-CoV-2 while capturing the optimal transfusion time point. Additionally, all patients were also treated with multiple pharmaceutical agents including antibiotics, antivirals, and steroids requiring robust comparative analyses to clearly establish the effect of each treatment modality individually and collectively as well.
  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">NCT04816942</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">Clinical Efficacy of Early Administration of Convalescent Pl…</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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SARS-CoV-2 infectivity by viral load, S gene variants and demographic factors and the utility of lateral flow devices to prevent transmission

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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: Ethics: The study was conducted as part of national COVID-19 surveillance under the provisions of Section 251 of the NHS Act 2006 and therefore did not require individual patient consent.<br>IRB: The protocol for this work was reviewed by the PHE Research Ethics and Governance Group, which is the PHE Research Ethics Committee, and was found to be fully compliant with all regulatory requirements.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Simulations of the number of cases identified by antigen LFDs: We used our findings to estimate the proportion of potential transmission events where the source case would have been detected using an antigen LFD, using existing data on the sensitivity of four LFDs: Innova, Deep Blue, Orient gene and Abbott.18 For each source case we simulated a positive or negative LFD result by randomly drawing from the probability of a LFD being positive by the source case’s Ct value (see Supplement, Figure S1).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Samples were processed using the same RNA extraction and Thermo Fisher TaqPath PCR platform in each laboratory (targeting S and N genes, and ORF1ab; details in Supplement).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Thermo Fisher TaqPath</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has important limitations. Firstly, ascertaining infection in contacts depends on the contact being reported by the case and the contact being tested. In the UK, PCR testing is only recommended for those with symptoms and therefore we do not ascertain most asymptomatic infections. Whilst Ct values are generally slightly lower in those without symptoms,22 they may nevertheless contribute substantially to transmission.23 Additionally, access to testing depends on social and demographic factors, e.g. the relationships between PCR-positive results in contacts and ethnicity varied if we conditioned on contact attendance for a PCR test (Table 2 vs. Table S2). Secondly, our classification of contact events is relatively simple, e.g., we do not have any direct measures of human behaviour, such as proximity or duration of contact. We also do not account for the dynamic nature of viral loads over time,24 relying on a single measurement at varying times post infection. Despite this, the time from symptom onset to testing in the cases was relatively consistent, median (IQR) 2 (1-3) days, such that measured Ct values plausibly represent similar stages of the illness in cases. We use only a single assay to determine Ct values, but have calibrated this to allow comparison with other platforms. Finally, it was not possible to account for unobserved third-party transmission, although we designed our study population to minimise this risk. This likely means that some contact events i...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.28.21254468: (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">Simulator Implementation: We implemented our particle-based COVID-19 simulator with vaccination, contact tracing, and testing modules in MATLAB R2020.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.29.21254542: (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 computational codes to perform the respective fits are written in the Python language and employ the LM algorithm implemented in the lmfit package for Python, which has a built-in routine for estimating the errors of the fitted parameters via the covariance matrix [6].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Python</div><div>suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">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://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.03.19.21253989

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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 three subjects involved in this case series are three authors of the article (E.D., M.M. and G.L.), who underwent routine institutional laboratory monitoring by means of nasopharyngeal swabs and venous blood sampling throughout the study period, according to a protocol approved by the local Ethics Committee of Verona and Rovigo (2683CESC; February 16, 2021).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This 3-case series was based on two female (44 and 39 years old) and one male (53 years old) healthcare workers, who received the first 30 μg BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine dose (</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://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/10.1101/2021.04.01.438063

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.01.438063: (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 CoVsurver analysis tool (https://corona.bii.a-star.edu.sg) was used to extract the mutations.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CoVsurver</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The online analysis platform (https://www.covidoutcome.com) is written in R using the R Shiny package (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shiny) and is running under Linux Debian 64-bit (x86_64).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Shiny</div><div>suggested: (Shiny, RRID:SCR_001626)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The server fist performs a global pairwise sequence alignment between the input sequence and the reference genome of the “Wuhan strain” (hCoV-19/Wuhan/WIV04/2019), using the program of the “Biostrings” R Bioconductor package (https://bioconductor.org/packages/Biostrings/), and outputs the protein as well as UTR mutations.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Bioconductor</div><div>suggested: (Bioconductor, RRID:SCR_006442)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.04.02.438155: (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 Orf1ab sequence reported from Wuhan, China was used as a reference sequence (Protein accession number: YP_009724389) for MSA studies using Clustal Omega tool [17] as described earlier [18].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Clustal Omega</div><div>suggested: (Clustal Omega, RRID:SCR_001591)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The DiscoTope 2.0 was used for prediction of Discontinuous B cell epitope using threshold value set at −5.5 and its three dimensional structure were represented by AutoDock software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>DiscoTope</div><div>suggested: (DiscoTope, RRID:SCR_018530)</div></div><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">Antigenicity of all selected epitopes was predicted from Vaxijen 2.0 webserver, whereas allergenicity was predicted by AllergenFP v.1.0. MHC class II molecules: IEDB recommended 2.22 prediction method was used to predict MHC class II epitopes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vaxijen</div><div>suggested: (VaxiJen, RRID:SCR_018514)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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/10.1101/2021.04.02.438186

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  SciScore for 10.1101/2021.04.02.438186: (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">Male hamsters (n=12) were divided into three groups, the first group contained hamsters who were previously infected with the USA-WA1/2020 variant (lineage A, GISAID clade S) which was circulating in Washington State in early 2020.</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">Virus and cell culture: SARS-CoV-2 Isolate hCoV-19/USA/CA_CDC_5574/2020 and SARS-CoV-2/human/USA/NY-PV08410/2020 were propagated in Vero E6 cells to generate working virus stocks with infectious titers of 4.7×106 pfu/ml and 1.8×107 pfu/ml, respectively, and sequenced to confirm genotypes.</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">Statistical analysis: Standard unpaired T.test was used to calculate statistical significance through GraphPad Prism (8.4.2) software for Windows, GraphPad Software, San Diego, California USA, www.graphpad.com.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
  Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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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.
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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: Animal experiments: Animal experiments were carried out in compliance with all pertinent US National Institutes of Health regulations and approval from the Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) of Noble Life Sciences and Bioqual.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">For the immunogenicity study, 6-to 8-week-old female C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory) were inoculated subcutaneously in two sites.</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 Fab was captured onto anti-human Fab-CH1 biosensors at concentration of 10 μg/ml as ligand and the tested samples of spike NP or non-NP was diluted in 7 × 2-fold series starting from 250 nM to 3.9 nM in solution, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human Fab-CH1</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">These expression vectors were codon optimized and confirmed by sequencing prior to being transiently transfected into FreeStyle™ 293F cells (Thermo Fisher)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">VSV-spike pseudovirus production and neutralization assay: To generate SARS-CoV-2 spike VSV pseudovirus, a plasmid encoding SARS-CoV-2 spike harboring a C-terminal 18-residue truncation was transfected into pre-seeded 293T cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: NCBI_Iran Cat# C498, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This pseudovirus was first titrated with duplicate on Vero E6 cells cultured in EMEM supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum and 100 I.U./mL penicillin and 100 μg/mL streptomycin 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><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">For the immunogenicity study, 6-to 8-week-old female C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory) were inoculated subcutaneously in two sites.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data was fit to a 4PL curve in GraphPad Prism 7.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Single particles were picked with DogPicker and processed in RELION 3.0.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RELION</div><div>suggested: (RELION, RRID:SCR_016274)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: 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">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Preparation of test virus suspension: For preparation of SARS-CoV-2 test virus suspension, Vero E6 cells were seeded in a 75 cm2 flasks at 2×106 cells in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM, supplemented with 10 % (v/v) fetal calf serum (FCS), 1 % non-essential amino acids, 100 IU/mL penicillin, 100 µg/mL streptomycin and 2 mM L-Glutamine).</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">For preparation of BCoV virus suspension, U373 cells were cultivated in a 75 cm2 flask with in Minimum Essential Medium Eagle (EMEM) supplemented with L-glutamine, non-essential amino acids and sodium pyruvate and 10 % FCS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>U373</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">Fitting of virus titer decay: To model the decay in virus titer, we implemented a Weibull distribution fit in GraphPad Prism version 9.0.2 for Windows (GraphPad Software, San Diego, California USA, www.graphpad.com) Calculation of the reduction factor: The loss in virus titer by desiccation was calculated by subtracting the titer on the different carriers after desiccation from the titer of the initial virus control.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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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 TiKoCo study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Regensburg, Germany (vote 12-101-0258) and adopted by the Ethics Committee of the University of Erlangen (vote 248_20 Bc).<br>Consent: All participants provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This suggested that up to 7 200 randomly sampled individuals were to be contacted to successfully recruit the calculated 3 600 baseline study participants.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">With regard to a future longitudinal survey, also changes in seroprevalence between two sampling time points of 0.1% could be proven statistically significant at a predefined statistical power of 80%.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Based on data on county residents regarding sex and age, which were available for each municipality (Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik 2019), we determined, for each of the 26 municipalities, the number of men and women, which corresponded to the share of the members of the municipality within the total population of the county Tirschenreuth, respectively.</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 Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 test (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany) detecting nucleoprotein- (N)-directed complete Ig was operated on the Cobas pro e 801 module and the YHLO SARS CoV-2 test (Shenzhen Yhlo Biotech Co., Ltd., Shenzen, China) detects IgG antibodies to the N- and S-protein on the iFlash 1800 according to the manufacturers recommendations, respectively.</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>detects IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A validated in-house ELISA detecting IgG antibody responses to the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was performed essentially as described earlier [13]</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ELISA detecting 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 statistical software SAS version 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAS Institute</div><div>suggested: (Statistical Analysis System, RRID:SCR_008567)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We 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">IRB: Malbrán, Argentina) were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of its Unidad Operativa Centro de</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 lines: Vero-CCL81 TMPRSS2, HEK 293T-hACE2 (clone 5-7), and 293T-hACE2-TMPRSS2 (clone F8-2) cells were described previously (Oguntuyo et al., 2021), and were maintained in DMEM + 10%FBS.</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">The HEK 293T-hACE2-TMPRSS2 cells were plated on collagen coated plates or dishes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK 293T-hACE2-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Rescued viruses were amplified in Vero-CCL81 TMPRSS2 cells (Oguntuyo et al., 2021), then titered and used for the assay.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-CCL81 TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">S amino acids 319 – 541 (corresponding to the RBD domain) sequence were C-terminally fused to the Fc region of human IgG1 (220 – 449 aa of P0DOX5.2) Generation of recombinant Sendai virus from cDNA: 2×10E5 BSR-T7 cells per well were seeded onto 6-well cluster plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BSR-T7</div><div>suggested: CCLV Cat# CCLV-RIE 0583, RRID:CVCL_RW96)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For VSV-CoV2 titration, 5 x 10E4 293T-hACE2-TMPRSS2 cells per well were seeded onto a collagen-coated 96 well plate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-hACE2-TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Inhibition curves were generated using Prism 8.4.3 (GraphPad Software) with ‘log (inhibitor) vs normalized response - variable slope’ settings.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: 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><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">UNCN1T cells (a human bronchial epithelial cell line; Kerafast; cat# ENC011) were cultured in BEGM media (Bronchial Epithelial Cell Growth Medium; Lonza: cat# CC-3170) in FNC (Athena Enzyme Systems; cat# 0407) coated 96-well plates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UNCN1T</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_ZC91)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MTT cell viability assay: Vero and HepG2 cells were seeded at the density of 20,000 cells/well in a 96 well plate containing 100 µL complete DMEM (Gibco, USA) supplemented with 10% FBS (Gibco, USA) and 1% Penstrep (Gibco, USA).</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>HepG2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In brief, 3X106 HEK293T cells were co-transfected with a plasmid containing lentiviral backbone expressing luciferase and ZsGreen (BEI catalog number NR-52516), a lentiviral helper plasmid expressing HIV Gag-Pol (BEI catalog number NR-52517), a lentiviral helper plasmid expressing HIV Tat (BEI catalog number NR-52518) and a lentiviral helper plasmid expressing HIV Rev (BEI catalog number NR-52519) along with a plasmid expressing spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 7 using jetPRIME transfection reagent (Polyplus-transfection; NY, USA) as per manufacturer’s instruction.</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">SARS-CoV-2 entry inhibitor screening assay: For screening SARS-CoV-2 entry inhibitors, 24 hrs before starting the assay, 20,000 HEK293T-ACE2 cells were seeded per well in a poly-l-lysine-coated 96-well plate.</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">In brief, Vero E6 cells were seeded in 6-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">The percentage inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 replication in MU-UNMC-1 and MU-UNMC-2 treated cells was calculated with respect to viral loads in untreated control wells that received DMSO (considered 0% inhibition) and negative control wells (uninfected cells).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MU-UNMC-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Measuring the combinational antiviral potential of MU-UNMC-2 and Remdesivir: To determine the possible synergistic antiviral effect of MU-UNMC-2 on RDV and vice versa against SARS-CoV-2 replication, we tested combined doses of the two in SARS-CoV-2 infected UNCN1T and Vero-STAT1 knockout cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero-STAT1</div><div>suggested: ATCC Cat# CCL-81-VHG, RRID:CVCL_YZ45)</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">Hitfinder, Zinc database ZincDatabase, Zinc15Database</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Zinc</div><div>suggested: (Zinc, RRID:SCR_008596)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ChEMBL, Bingo, JChemforExcel, ChemDiff, and BindingMOAD (https://www.click2drug.org/index.php#Databases).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ChEMBL</div><div>suggested: (ChEMBL, RRID:SCR_014042)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>JChemforExcel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The top 500 compounds, the best Glide, was then re-docked using the ‘Induced Fit’ program of the Schrödinger Suite.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Fit’</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Statistical analysis: The CC50 and IC50 values were computed using four-parameter variable slope sigmoidal dose-response models using GraphPad Prism (version 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 3-D interaction landscape between remdesivir and MU-UNMC-2 was calculated based on Loewe additive model using SynergyFinder v.2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SynergyFinder</div><div>suggested: (SynergyFinder, RRID:SCR_019318)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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">NCT04303299</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">Fight COVID-19 Trial</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04392427</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Not yet recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">New Antiviral Drugs for Treatment of COVID-19</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04260594</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Not yet recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Clinical Study of Arbidol Hydrochloride Tablets in the Treat…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04355026</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">Use of Bromhexine and Hydroxychloroquine for Treatment of CO…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04276688</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">Lopinavir/ Ritonavir, Ribavirin and IFN-beta Combination for…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04445272</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">Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of T…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04433078</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">RepurpoSing Old Drugs TO SuppRess a Modern Threat: COVID-19 …</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04358614</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">Baricitinib Therapy in COVID-19</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04338958</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">Ruxolitinib in Covid-19 Patients With Defined Hyperinflammat…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04280705</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">Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT)</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04315948</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">Trial of Treatments for COVID-19 in Hospitalized Adults</td></tr></table>
  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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  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
  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">IRB: This study was approved by the Mass General Brigham Institutional Review Board (#2020P003538).<br>Consent: All participants provided written informed consent.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Study design and participant enrollment: These experiments include 68 pregnant women (38 SARS-CoV-2 positive, 30 SARS-CoV-2 negative) enrolled in a cohort study at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital from April to June 2020, coincident with universal screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection by nasopharyngeal RT-PCR on the Labor and Delivery unit.</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">ACE2 and TMPRSS2 primary antibodies were then incubated in Intercept T20 (TBS) Antibody Diluent (Li-Cor Biosciences) overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>TMPRSS2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Demographic and clinical outcomes data were abstracted from the electronic medical record using REDCap electronic data capture tools [40].</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 performed using GraphPad Prism 9.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  No protocol registration statement was detected.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">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">After washing for 3 times, 100 μl of 0.2 μg/ml HRP-conjugated goat anti-Mouse IgG (H+L) (Thermo Fisher Scientific, 31430) or goat anti-Human IgG (H+L) (Promega, W4031) antibodies were added for 30 min at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>W4031</div><div>suggested: (Promega Cat# W4031, RRID:AB_430835)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Interactions were visualized by the incubation of tetramethylrhodamine (TRITC) labelled secondary goat anti-mouse IgG antibodies (Fc specific; 1:1000 dilution in binding buffer; Life Technologies) and goat anti-Human IgG (Fc specific)-Cy3 (1:1000 dilution in binding buffer; Merck).</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">Briefly, the day before transfection, 293-F cells were diluted to 0.7×106 cells/ml in 30 ml FreestyleTM 293-F medium and grown at 120 rpm at 37°C with 8% CO2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293-F</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, HEK293-6E cells were cultivated in FreeStyle F17 expression medium (Thermo Fisher Scientific, A1383502</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293-6E</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_HF20)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">AFM measured Spike binding to Vero E6 cells: Vero E6 cells were grown on culture dishes using DMEM containing 10% FBS, 500 units/mL penicillin and 100 µg/mL streptomycin, at 37°C with 5% CO2.</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">Briefly, proteins with a C-type lectin-like/IPR001304 domain were downloaded from InterPro 66.0 and supplemented with proteins obtained in jackhmmer searches using the PF00059.20 lectin C-type domain definition versus the mouse-specific UniProt and Ensembl databases.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>InterPro</div><div>suggested: (InterPro, RRID:SCR_006695)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ensembl</div><div>suggested: (Ensembl, RRID:SCR_002344)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The C-type lectin-like regions were extracted from the full-length proteins using the SMART CLECT domain definition with hmmersearch v3.1b2 and extended by 5 amino acids on both sides.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SMART</div><div>suggested: (SMART, RRID:SCR_005026)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To reduce redundancy, principal isoforms were selected using appris 2016_10.v24.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>appris</div><div>suggested: (APPRIS, RRID:SCR_012019)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data analysis was performed using the Gwyddion 2.55 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gwyddion</div><div>suggested: (Gwyddion, RRID:SCR_015583)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The quantification of fluorescence was done using ProScanArray Express software (Perkin Elmer) employing an adaptive circle quantification method from 50 μm (minimum spot diameter) to 300 μm (maximum spot diameter).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ProScanArray Express</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Average RFU (relative fluorescence unit) values with local background subtraction of four spots and standard deviation of the mean were recorded using Microsoft Excel and GraphPad Prism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Microsoft Excel</div><div>suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>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 full model is available at the MolSSI / BioExcel COVID-19 Molecular Structure and Therapeutics Hub (https://covid.molssi.org//models/#spike-protein-in-complex-with-human-ace2-spike-spike-binding).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioExcel</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 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: All donors signed the standard NYBC blood donor consent form that indicates blood may be used for research.<br>IACUC: The research protocol was approved and performed in accordance with Scripps Research IACUC Protocol #20-0003.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Forty-eight golden Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus, about 6 weeks old, individually housed) sourced from Envigo, Haslett, MI were randomly assigned to four groups of 12 animals each with equal numbers of males and females and a randomized treatment order.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 study was blinded to the staff who handled the animals.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Forty-eight golden Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus, about 6 weeks old, individually housed) sourced from Envigo, Haslett, MI were randomly assigned to four groups of 12 animals each with equal numbers of males and females and a randomized treatment order.</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 binding to the beads was detected with 2.5 µg/mL goat anti-human IgG-Alexa Fluor 647 (Jackson Immunoresearch 109-606-170)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG-Alexa Fluor 647</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For IgA1 or IgA2 antibodies, VH sequences were also cloned into plasmids containing the IgA1 or IgA2 constant region (Genscript).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgA1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The beads were stained with 10 µg/mL of each antibody for 30 min at room temperature, washed, and stained with 2.5 µg/mL goat anti-human IgG Alexa Fluor 647 (Jackson Immunoresearch 109-606-170).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: (Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs Cat# 109-606-170, RRID:AB_2337902)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Antibody synergy experiments: Five antibodies, CV503, CV521, CV664, CV993 and CV1182, were tested for synergy in neutralizing authentic SARS-CoV-2 (FRNA assay).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CV503</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CV521</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CV664</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CV1182</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Design of DVD-IgTM bispecific antibodies: The mAbs CV503, CV521, CV664, CV993, CV1182 and CV1206 were used to create bispecific DVD-IgTM antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CV993</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CV1206</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Structure modeling: Epitope bins represented by C135 (PDB ID: 7K8Z), S309 (PDB ID: 6WPS), ACE2 (PDB ID: 6M0J), CR3022 (PDB ID: 6W41), as well as NTD-specific antibody 4-8, were modeled onto a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (PDB ID: 7C2L).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CR3022</div><div>suggested: (Imported from the IEDB Cat# CR3022, RRID:AB_2848080)</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">This assay was performed by incubating a fixed volume of virus [0.5 multiplicity of infection (MOI)] with the antibodies for 1 h at 37 °C prior to adding to Vero E6 cells (BEI, Manassas, VA, USA, NR-596) plated in 96-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">Pseudovirions were generated by co-transfection of HEK293T cells with plasmids encoding MLV-gag/pol, MLV-CMV-Luciferase, and SARS-CoV-2 spike (GenBank: MN908947) with an 18 aa truncation at the C-terminus.</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 the incubation, 10,000 Hela-hACE2 cells generated by lentivirus transduction of wild-type Hela cells and enriched by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) using biotinylated SARS-CoV-2 RBD conjugated with streptavidin-Alexa Fluor 647 (ThermoFisher Scientific, S32357) were added to the mixture with 20 µg/ml Dextran (Sigma, 93556-1G) for enhanced infectivity.</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">At 48 hr post incubation, the supernatant was aspirated, and HeLa-hACE2 cells were then lysed in luciferase lysis buffer (25 mM Gly-Gly pH 7.8, 15 mM MgSO4, 4 mM EGTA, 1% Triton X-100).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">transducing plasmid pHR’ CMV-Luc, S plasmid from SARS-CoV-2 (Wuhan-1, D614G, B.1.1.7, B.1.351) with TMPRSS2 into 293T cells using Fugene 6 transfection reagent (Promega, Madison, WI)54–56.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: NCBI_Iran Cat# C498, RRID:CVCL_0063)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">B.1.1.7 virus contained the following spike mutations: del-H69–V70, del-Y144, N501Y, A570D, D614G, P681H, T716I, S982A, D1118H. B.1.351 virus contained the following spike mutations: L18F, D80A, D215G, del- L242_244, R246I, K417N, E484K, N501Y, D614G, A701V. 293T-ACE2 cells, provided by Dr. Michael Farzan, were plated into 96-well white/black Isoplates (PerkinElmer, Waltham, MA) at 5,000 cells per well the day before transdution of SARS-CoV-2.</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">Antibody VH or VL sequences were cloned into plasmids containing an IgG1 or relevant light chain backbone (Genscript) and used to transfect Expi293 cells (ThermoFisher Scientific)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Expi293</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">First, we plotted a standard curve of serially diluted virus (3000, 1000, 333, 111, 37, 12, 4, 1 PFU) versus RLU using four-parameter logistic regression (GraphPad Prism ver. 8) below:
  
  (y: RLU, x: PFU, a,b,c and x0 are parameters fitted by standard curve) To convert sample RLU into PFU, use the equation below: (if y < a then x = 0)
  
  Percentage neutralization was calculated by the following equation:
  
  VC =</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">Percent neutralization and neutralization IC50s were calculated using GraphPad Prism 8.0.2.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The samples were then acquired in a BD LSRFortessa X-50 flow cytometer (BD biosciences) and analyzed using Flowjo (BD biosciences).</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">Residues with a buried surface area (BSA) > 0 Å2, as calculated by the PISA program61, were used for defining the epitopes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PISA</div><div>suggested: (PISA, RRID:SCR_015749)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">RELION 3.070 was used for 2D and 3D classifications and final refinements.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RELION</div><div>suggested: (RELION, RRID:SCR_016274)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  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: Ethical approval was obtained (REC number 15/NW/0568, IRAS ID 180727 (v3.0), “Properties of human pericytes”, as approved on 9-10-2018 for extension and amendment) and all patients gave informed written 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">The constriction evoked by angiotensin II in the presence of the RBD showed overlapping ranges of value for 2 female vessels and 9 male vessels (p=0.67).</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 antibodies used were goat anti-ACE2 (R&D systems, AF933, 1:200)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary antibodies used were Alexa fluor 488 donkey anti-goat (Invitrogen, A11055, 1:500)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-goat</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# A-11055, RRID:AB_2534102)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>A11055</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# A-11055, RRID:AB_2534102)</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">Diameter was measured in ImageJ by drawing a line across the vessel between the inner walls of the endothelial cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ImageJ</div><div>suggested: (ImageJ, RRID:SCR_003070)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: 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">NCT04312009</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">Losartan for Patients With COVID-19 Requiring Hospitalizatio…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04311177</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">Losartan for Patients With COVID-19 Not Requiring Hospitaliz…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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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 MSM was built using the PyEMMA v2.5.7 program.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PyEMMA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The conformational clusters were grouped together based on kinetic similarity using the PCCA+ algorithm.70 The PCCA+ algorithm uses the eigenvectors of the MSMs to group together clusters, which are kinetically close, resulting in a set of macrostates.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MSMs</div><div>suggested: (MSMS, RRID:SCR_003532)</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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  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">8-10 week-old female mice were used.</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">Mouse Serum ELISAs: Anti-RBD and Anti-spike trimer antibody titers were measured using an end-point ELISA.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">One of the following goat-anti-mouse secondary antibodies was used: IgG Fc-HRP (1:10,000, Invitrogen A16084)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>secondary</div><div>suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat# A16084, RRID:AB_2534758)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For flow cytometry analysis, cells were blocked with anti-CD16/CD38 (clone: 2.4G2) and then stained with fluorochrome conjugated antibodies: CD19, GL7, CD95, CXCR4, CD86, IgG1, CD4, CXCR5, and PD1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD16/CD38</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD19</div><div>suggested: (Diaclone Cat# 873.039.050, RRID:AB_1587088)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GL7</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD95</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CXCR4</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>IgG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD4</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CXCR5</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PD1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Viral Neutralization Assay: Neutralization assays were conducted as described previously.39 Briefly, SARS-CoV-2 spike-pseudotyped lentivirus was produced in HEK239T cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK239T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For the neutralization assay, ACE2/HeLa cells were plated 1-2 days prior to infection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ACE2/HeLa</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 and Vaccination: C57BL/6 mice were purchased from Charles River and housed at Stanford University.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For RBD retention, the points were fit with a linear fit in GraphPad Prism and the half-life of release was determined (n=3).</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 analyzed with FlowJo 10 (FlowJo LLC).</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">P values listed were determined in GraphPad Prism software using a one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparison test.</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:
  By combining the promising antigen, RBD, and well-studied adjuvants, CpG and Alum, with our hydrogel platform, we have created a vaccine that overcomes many of the current limitations and is suitable for broader distribution. In addition to the choice of antigen and adjuvant, there is a growing need for novel and efficient drug delivery systems like our PNP hydrogel platform.45 The hydrogel is injectable and forms a depot that allows for slow release of the vaccine over several days to weeks, which leads to greater affinity maturation and a more potent, durable humoral response.24 This is critical for eliminating the need for a booster shot, in-turn increasing the feasibility of vaccinating billions of people across the globe. In this work we validated that, unlike other hydrogel or microneedle vaccine platforms, the PNP hydrogel is readily loaded with diverse molecular cargo, allowing for the antigen and adjuvants to be co-presented to immune cells. As discussed in previous work from our lab, the hydrogel likely acts through two main mechanisms: as a local stimulatory niche where infiltrating cells experience high local concentrations of adjuvant and antigen and as a slow release depot that allows for prolonged vaccine exposure.24 By delivering RBD with the clinically de-risked adjuvants, CpG and Alum, in our PNP hydrogel, we were able to achieve titers and neutralization levels that greatly exceeded those of the relevant clinical controls, Alum and MF59, as well as the bolu...
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We 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">Animals and husbandry: Female SPF guinea pigs (Dunkin Hartley) were obtained from Envigo at a minimum weight of 350 grams, randomly allocated to experimental groups and individually marked using color coded tags.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Domestic short hair male and female SPF cats were obtained from Marshall BioResources (Waverly, NY), identified by microchip and randomly allocated to experimental groups.</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 incubation, the cells were fixed and stained with the primary antibody (anti-VEEV nsp2 monoclonal antibody) followed by a FITC conjugated anti-murine IgG secondary antibody.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-VEEV nsp2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-murine IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ELISA for estimating anti RBD and SED antibody titers in sera: Purified SARS-CoV-2 RBD and SED (Spike ectodomain) were diluted in DPBS (without Ca and Mg, Lonza, 17-512F) and coated onto 96-well plates (MaxiSorp - ThermoFisher or High binding - Greiner Bio-one) using 10nM (10 pmols/mL), and incubated overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>17-512F</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plates were washed again 3 times before being incubated with the HRP-containing antibody – Goat anti-Guinea pig (IgG-HRPO, Jackson Lab 106-035-003, 1:8000) for 1 hour at RT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Guinea pig ( IgG-HRPO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The virus was propagated for one passage on Vero cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Confluent monolayers of Vero E6 cells in 6 well plates were washed once with PBS and seeded with 100ul of serial ten-fold dilutions of swab/wash samples, incubated at 37°C for one hour then overlaid with 0.5% agarose in MEM containing 2% FBS.</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.
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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">Contamination: Cell Culture: Calu3, A549, Caco2, and Vero cells were tested for mycoplasma (Lonza MycoAlert detection kit) and human cell line identity was authenticated by ATCC.</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">Prior to infection of target cells, the viral stock was incubated with anti-VSV-G antibody (3ug/ml) for 1 h at 37°C to neutralize contaminating rVSVΔG/NG/NanoLuc/VSV-G particles.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-VSV-G</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: Calu3, A549, Caco2, and Vero cells were tested for mycoplasma (Lonza MycoAlert detection kit) and human cell line identity was authenticated by ATCC.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A549 and Vero cells were grown in DMEM, supplemented with 10% FBS, 100U/ml Penicillin, and 100ug/ml Streptomycin.</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">Calu3 and Caco2 cells were grown in MEM, supplemented with 10% FBS, 100U/ml Penicillin, 100ug/ml Streptomycin, 1% MEM NEAA and 1mM sodium pyruvate.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lentiviral vectors were co-transduced with MD2G and PAX2 in 293T cells (5 million cells/10cm plate) with 25ul of XtremeGene9 (Millipore Sigma, #6365787001) and supernatant was harvested at 48hr and 72hr post transfection.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Calculation of enzyme constants was performed with Graphpad Prism software (version 9.0).</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">GFP+RFP+ cells were quantified using a BD Attune NxT Flow cytometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and data was analyzed in FlowJo version 10.7.1.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 experiments of this study, like prior studies using similar techniques, have some limitations. Protease enzymatic assays on peptide substrates allow for detailed biochemical characterization of a specific site, but peptide substrates may not have the equivalent three-dimensional conformation or post-translational modifications of the full-length protein produced in appropriate cells. For instance, SARS-CoV-2 S is extensively glycosylated (Watanabe et al., 2020). Pseudovirus and syncytia formation provide complementary functional assays, dependent on homotrimeric spike protein produced in human cells. The possibility of additional spike cleavage sites and potential pro- and anti-viral consequence of proteases acting on cell surface proteins including ACE2 cannot be excluded. The amount, density, and accessibility of spike protein could be different between these cell-based surrogate assays and wild type SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, antibody neutralization is highly correlated between authentic virus and corresponding pseudotyped viruses, suggesting similar conformation (Schmidt et al., 2020). We have mitigated the risk of artifact by using multiple orthogonal platforms, including VSV-based pseudovirus, HIV-based pseudovirus, and syncytia formation.
  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">NCT02735707</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">Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04505774</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">Anti-thrombotics for Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19 (ACTI…</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NCT04372589</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">Antithrombotic Therapy to Ameliorate Complications of COVID-…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The human samples collection and use has been approved by Clinical Ethics Committee of Affiliated Zhongda hospital of Southeast University. 2. Mice: Female HLA-A*02:01/DR1 transgenic and H-2-β2m-/-/IAβ-/- C57BL/6 mice at 10 weeks were generous gifts from Academy of Military Medical Sciences.<br>IACUC: Animal welfare and experimental procedures were performed in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2006) and were approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of Southeast University. 3.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Twelve female HLA-A2/DR1 transgenic mice were randomly divided into four groups.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Female C57BL/6 mice at 10 weeks of age were purchased from the Comparative Medicine Center of Yangzhou University (Yangzhou, China).</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 harvested, washed, blocked with anti-mouse CD16/CD32 for 20 min at 4°C and were stained with FITC-labeled anti-CD3 and APC-labeled anti-CD8 antibodies for 30 min at 4 °C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse CD16/CD32</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">At day 22, cells were harvested and blocked with anti-mouse CD16/CD32 for 20 min, then stained with PE-labeled anti-CD3 and APC-labeled anti-CD8 antibodies for 30 min at 4°C for further analysis on the flow cytometry.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then the cell lines were stained with fluorescence-labeled monoclonal antibody W6/32 against HLA-ABC or anti-HLA-A24, the high-expression cells were then sorted using flow cytometry and followed by pure culture and sequencing analyses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-ABC</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-HLA-A24</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Then T2 cells were stained with PE-labeled anti-HLA-A2.1 antibody for 30 min at 4 °C followed by flow cytometry.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-HLA-A2.1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After incubation for 20 h at 37 ℃ and 5% CO2, the plates were washed and then incubated with biotinylated anti-IFN-γ detecting antibody (BD) for 2h at RT.</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><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were then harvested, washed, blocked with anti-mouse CD16/CD32 for 20 minutes at 4°C and were stained with FITC-labeled anti-CD3 and APC-labeled anti-CD8 antibodies for 30 min at 4 °C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-CD8</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">The human samples collection and use has been approved by Clinical Ethics Committee of Affiliated Zhongda hospital of Southeast University. 2. Mice: Female HLA-A*02:01/DR1 transgenic and H-2-β2m-/-/IAβ-/- C57BL/6 mice at 10 weeks were generous gifts from Academy of Military Medical Sciences.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-A*02:01/DR1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Female C57BL/6 mice at 10 weeks of age were purchased from the Comparative Medicine Center of Yangzhou University (Yangzhou, China).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Twelve female HLA-A2/DR1 transgenic mice were randomly divided into four groups.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HLA-A2/DR1</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">NCT04546841</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Recruiting</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Safety and Immunogenicity Trial of Multi-peptide Vaccination…</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 49, 43 and 44. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.
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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 mouse experiments were performed with approval of the Northwestern University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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">Mice were purchased from Jackson laboratories (approximately half males and half females).</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 stained with fluorescently-labeled antibodies against CD8α (53-6.7 on PerCP-Cy5.5), CD44 (IM7 on Pacific Blue), TNFα (MP6-XT22 on PE-Cy7), IL-2 (JES6-5H4 on PE), IFNγ (XMG1.2 on APC), peanut agglutinin or PNA (conjugated to fluorescein), Fas (Jo2 on PE), IgD (11-26 on Pacific Blue), IgM (RMM-1 on PECy7), B220 (RA3-6B2 on PerCP-Cy5.5), and CD3 (145-2c11 on FITC).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD8α</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD44</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>PNA</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>B220</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: (Fitzgerald Industries International Cat# 61R-1452, RRID:AB_11199165)</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">These vaccines were propagated on trans-complementing HEK293 cells (ATCC), purified by cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation, titrated, and then frozen at −80 °C.</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">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">Single cell RNA-Seq Data Acquisition and Analysis: C57BL/6 mice were immunized with a LD (106 PFU) or a SD (109 PFU) of Ad5-SARS-2 spike, and at day 28, splenic CD8 T cells were MACS-sorted with a MACS negative selection kit (STEMCELL).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Flow cytometry samples were acquired with a Becton Dickinson Canto II or an LSRII and analyzed using FlowJo (Treestar).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>FlowJo</div><div>suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Further analyses were performed in R using the Seurat package v4.0 (PMID: 30638736), as previously described (21).</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">Terminal effector gene signatures were derived using the edgeR package (22), comparing effector memory to terminal effector CD8 T cells (3).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>edgeR</div><div>suggested: (edgeR, RRID:SCR_012802)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Data were analyzed using Prism (Graphpad).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Graphpad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad, RRID:SCR_000306)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We 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">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">All antibodies (except LY-CoV555) were produced as full IgG1 antibodies as described (Barlev-Gross et al., 2021; Rosenfeld et al., 2021), expressed using ExpiCHO™ Expression system (Thermoscientific, USA) and purified on HiTrap Protein-A column (GE healthcare, UK).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>IgG1</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For assessment of binding to S1 variants or mutated RBD, antibodies were captured on Protein-A or anti-Fab CH1 sensors (FAB2G) and incubated with recombinant S1 (WT, B.1.1.7 or B.1.351) or recombinant RBD (WT or mutated) for 180 sec and then transferred to buffer containing wells for additional 60 sec.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-Fab</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For epitope binning, MD65 antibody was biotinylated, immobilized on streptavidin sensor, incubated with a fixed concentration of WT rS1 (20 μg/ml) to reach saturation, washed and incubated with non-labeled LY-CoV555 for 180 sec.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MD65</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">Isolation and characterization of the MD29, MD65 and MD62 mAbs, targeting epitopes I-III on the RBD as previously reported.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MD65</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_MD65)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">MD29 and MD65 were used as positive and negative controls, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MD29</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_MD29)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Titer of stock was determined by plaque assay using Vero E6 cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td 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 His-tagged recombinant proteins were purchased from Sino Biologicals: B.1.1.7 rS1-SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 [Δ 69-70; Δ 144; N501Y; A570D; D614G; P681H], cat#40591-V08H12; B.1.351 rS1-SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 [K417N; E484K; N501Y; D614G], cat#40591-V08H10; spike RBD[N501Y] cat#40592-V08H82; spike RBD[S477N] cat#40592-V08H46; spike RBD[E484K] cat#40592-V08H84; spike RBD[N439K] cat#40592-V08H14; spike RBD[K417N] cat#40592-V08H59; spike RBD[Y453F] cat#40592-V08H80.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Sino Biologicals</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Area under curve (AUC) was calculated for each binding curve, using GraphPad Prism 5, and percent binding was calculated compared to the WT protein, representing 100% binding.</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 identity of the B.1.1.7 strain was confirmed using NGS.</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></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect 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 10.1101/2021.03.31.437955: (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">MD simulations were performed using Gromacs 2020.4, 58 with the Amber OL3 forcefield.</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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  While our predictions using 2D folding programs and chemical reactivity data do not identify other conformations besides the two pseudoknots and the 3-way junction, other possibilities cannot be excluded due to limitations in both the folding programs and reactivity experiments. Results for other works suggest other possible conformations, including two 3_8 pseudoknots, a different 3_3 pseudoknot (with Stem 2 formed by Stem 3 loop and 3′ end), a two-stem 2_1, and a two-stem-with-internal-loop 2_2 (Table S1 and Fig. S13). The length-dependent and context-specific conformations for the FSE emphasized in our work could be exploited biologically by the insidious virus in mechanisms of interactions with the ribosome. The bulky pseudo-knot may block and encourage ribosome pausing as the ribosome rolls over the FSE region, and any structural transitions may similarly interfere with this template-directed process. In the 2.3–7 Å-resolution Cryo-EM study by Bhatt et al., 21 the researchers observe the 3_6 pseudoknot wedged between the head and body of the small ribosomal subunit. Specifically, the residues before Stem 1 are found to be located at the mRNA entry tunnel so that, as translation proceeds, the GC-rich Stem 1 residues are unwound upon entering the mRNA tunnel. Stem 2 of the pseudoknot is found to be shorter by two base pairs than that predicted by computational 2D structure methods. To confirm these inferred structural interactions, the researchers mutated single residues i...
  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">IACUC: The trial protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Scientific Ethical Committee of Health Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Approval #200708006 (Committee members: Claudia Uribe PUC/Committee president; Colomba Cofré/Committee Vice-president; Andréa Villagrán/Executive secretary; Jorge Muñoz/External Lawyer; Gustavo Kaltwasser/External member; Alysa Garay/Community representative; Marisa Torres/Public Health Department; Carolina Méndez/Speech therapy representative; Luis Villarroel/Public Health Department; Pablo Brockman/Respiratory Diseases in Children Department.<br>Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from each participant before enrollment.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 randomly assigned to immunization with CoronaVac or injection with placebo in a 1:1 ratio.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-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 participants, blind investigators, and laboratory staff were masked to arm 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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-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">To assess the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, blood samples from 39 participants obtained at days 0 (baseline), 14, 28, and 42 p.i.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The quantitative measurement of human IgG antibodies against the RBD domain of the S1 protein (S1-RBD) and against the N protein of SARS-CoV-2 was determined using the RayBio COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Human Antibody Detection Kit (Indirect ELISA method) (Cat #IEQ-CoVS1RBD-IgG & #IEQ-CovN-IgG).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>human IgG</div><div>suggested: (Virostat Cat# 3862, RRID:AB_2889989)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>#IEQ-CovN-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">Unsolicited AEs with a frequency of 1% or more; SAEs; and Events of Special Interest are presented.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SAEs</div><div>suggested: (PharmaSages, RRID:SCR_012322)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">All data were analyzed with GraphPad Prism 9.0.1. or SPSS 17.0.</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><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: 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">NCT04651790</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, Safety, and Immunogenicity of Two Vaccination Sche…</td></tr></table>
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
  Results from rtransparent:
  Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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  Table 1: Rigor
  <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">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">In τ-STED mode, the 775 nm pulsed laser beam is superimposed at a typical power of 100 – 250 mW before the objective.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid 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 antibodies for WB: mouse anti-S (1A9) 1:1000 (GTX632604, GeneTex)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GTX632604</div><div>suggested: (GeneTex Cat# GTX632604, RRID:AB_2864418)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Secondary antibodies for Western blot analysis were HRP-conjugated anti-mouse purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Cell infection (unsynchronized) for immunofluorescence study of virus entry: 105 VeroE6 cells were seeded in 35 mm glass bottom dishes (Willco, Amsterdam) with 2 ml of culture medium and cultured for 1 days at 37°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-mouse purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology , Inc .</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Primary antibodies for immunofluorescence studies: Secondary antibodies for immunofluorescence studies and combinations: Immunostaining of infected cells: Methanol-fixed infected cells and a methanol-fixed negative control were incubated overnight at 4 C° with 150 μl of a solution of anti-S IgG or anti-N IgG in PBS + 3% BSA (Sigma-Aldrich, Milan, Italy).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-S IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-N 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">Kinetic study of virus growth in cells: VeroE6 cells were seeded in a 24 well plate at 105 cell/well in 1 ml of culture medium and cultured for 1 day at 37°C.</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">The cDNA of Caco-2 and HepG2 cells was used as a positive control of TMPRSS2 amplification.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Caco-2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HepG2</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300198/p2277_Hep-G2, RRID:CVCL_0027)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Immunostaining of non-infected cells: 105 Vero-E6 cells were seeded in 35 mm glass bottom dishes (Willco, Amsterdam) with 2 ml of culture medium and cultured for 1 days 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: 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 in-house one-step RT-qPCR reaction mixtures were run in a CFX Connect Real-Time PCR instrument (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) using a previously standardized thermal conditions (52.0 °C for 5 min, 95.0 °C for 10 s, 45 cycles of 10 s at 95.0 °C, and 62 °C for 30 s).</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">Lysates were quantified, loaded on 4-15% precast protein gels (BIORAD) and proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and electro-blotted onto Hybond-C-Extra (Amersham Biosciences) nitrocellulose membranes.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BIORAD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Colocalization of the green and far-red images was quantified by Pearson’s coefficient R according to the method by Costes et al. 65 by the colocalization threshold and colocalization test routines of Fiji.</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">Single molecule localization analysis: Acquired dSTORM stacks were processed by Thunderstorm, a Fiji plugin for PALM and STORM data analysis 66.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>STORM</div><div>suggested: (SToRM, RRID:SCR_006696)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Graphics and statistics: Graphs were prepared using Prism 7 (GraphPad) and IgorPro8 (Wavemetrics) software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Prism</div><div>suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
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  Table 1: Rigor
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  Table 2: Resources
  <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">RNAseq data were mapped to the reference transcriptome (Ensembl Human GRCh38 release 100) using Kallisto.28 The transcript-level output counts and transcripts per million (TPM) values were summed on gene level and annotated with Ensembl gene ID, gene name, and gene biotype using the R/Bioconductor packages tximport and BioMart.29,30 Blood RNA sequencing data analysis: Sample processing batch effects were evaluated by principle component analysis at genome wide level (Supplementary Figure 2a) and among the intersect of the 10% genes with least variable expression in each sample processing batch (Supplementary Figure 2b).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ensembl</div><div>suggested: (Ensembl, RRID:SCR_002344)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>R/Bioconductor</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">A batch effect evident in the least variant gene expression analysis was corrected using the ComBat function in the sva package in R, allocating samples with PC2 score <0 and >0 (in Supplementary Figure 2b) to separate batches31.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ComBat</div><div>suggested: (ComBat, RRID:SCR_010974)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Analysis of upstream transcriptional regulation of the differentially expressed genes was performed using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (Qiagen, Venlo, The Netherlands) and visualised as network diagram using the Force Atlas 2 algorithm in Gephi v0.9.233.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Ingenuity Pathway Analysis</div><div>suggested: (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, RRID:SCR_008653)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Gephi</div><div>suggested: (Gephi, RRID:SCR_004293)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Samples were acquired in PBS on LSR II flow cytometer (BD biosciences) and were analyzed using FlowJo (version 10.7.1 for mac, 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">Full details for both the experimental TCRseq library preparation and the subsequent TCR annotation (V, J and CDR3 annotation) using Decombinator V4 have been described previously40–42 The Decombinator software is freely available at https://github.com/innate2adaptive/Decombinator.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Decombinator</div><div>suggested: (Decombinator, RRID:SCR_006732)</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  Our study has some important limitations. The precise time of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 or transmission of infection was not possible to determine. This was offset by including longitudinal samples in 12 subjects before detection of incident infection by PCR, providing enough statistical power to show that both type 1 IFN and cell proliferation responses were statistically enriched in the week before the first positive PCR result. We had limited access to PBMC to assess frequency, phenotypic and functional characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 reactive T cells. The accumulating database of SARS-CoV-2 specific TCR sequences allowed us to relate clonal T cell expansion with antigen-specificity. This only accounted for an extremely small fraction of expanded sequences and does not exclude proliferation of bystander T cells. However, substantially lower levels of enrichment of CMV or EBV specific TCRs among expanded clones, and the lack of enrichment for IFNγ activity or other signatures of T cell activation in the blood transcriptome argue against generalised bystander T cell activation. Future re-analysis of the data (as more sequences across a wider range of HLA haplotypes are reported) will be necessary to evaluate whether the majority of expanded TCRs are ultimately found to recognise SARS-CoV-2. The focus on the blood compartment meant that we do not have direct measurements of responses at the site of host-pathogen interactions. Analysis of bulk RNA samples for transcriptional profil...
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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">Cell lines: The wild-type SARS-CoV-2 S glycoprotein, with Asp 614, was inducibly expressed in Lenti-x-293T human female kidney cells from Takara Bio (Catalog #: 632180).</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">Samples were Western blotted with 1:2,000 dilutions of rabbit anti-SARS-Spike S1, mouse anti-SARS-Spike S1, rabbit anti-SARS-Spike S2 or a 1:5,000 dilution of mouse anti-β-actin as the primary antibodies.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-Spike</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-SARS-Spike S2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-β-actin</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HRP-conjugated anti-rabbit or anti-mouse antibodies at a dilution of 1:5,000 were used as secondary antibodies in the Western blots.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HRP-conjugated</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><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: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Beads were washed three times and samples were Western blotted with a mouse anti-S1 antibody.</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></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">Lenti-x-293T cells were grown in DMEM with 10% FBS supplemented with L-glutamine and Pen-Strep.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Lenti-x-293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">On the day prior to transfection, 293T cells were seeded in 6-well plates at a density of 1 x 106/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">Purification of the S glycoproteins: To express the SARS-CoV-2 S glycoprotein for purification, 293T-S cells were induced with 1 µg/ml doxycycline for two days.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T-S</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_LC70)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Approximately 4 x 104 293T-ACE2 cells were then added to each well, and the cultures were maintained for an additional 24 h at 37°C before luciferase activity was measured.</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><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td 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 adjusted integrated volumes of S, S1 and S2 bands from unsaturated Western blots were calculated using Fiji ImageJ.</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">Neutralization activity was calculated from the reduction in luciferase activity compared to controls, using GraphPad Prism 8 (GraphPad Software Inc.).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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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: Figures were generated with R 4.0.2 () using ggplot 2 3.3.2 and sf 0.9-7 packages Sample donors: Samples were obtained from SARS-CoV-2 recovered and vaccinated individuals under study protocols approved by the local Institutional Review Boards (Canton Ticino Ethics Committee, Switzerland,).<br>Consent: All donors provided written informed consent for the use of blood and blood components (such as PBMCs, sera or plasma).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px 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 lines: Cell lines used in this study were obtained from ATCC (HEK293T and Vero E6) or ThermoFisher Scientific (Expi CHO cells, FreeStyle™ 293-F cells and Expi293F™ cells). B.1.427/B.1.429 prevalence analysis: The viral sequences and the corresponding metadata were obtained from GISAID EpiCoV project (https://www.gisaid.org/).</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>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293-F</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 binding response over time was used to plot binding data using GraphPad PRISM software (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><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Peptide mapping data was analyzed on Biopharma Finder 3.2 by searching the possible disulfide linkages on the construct.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Biopharma Finder</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
  Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
  Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
  Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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  Table 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">The overlap of mutations generated by REDItools 2 and JACUSA were considered.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>REDItools</div><div>suggested: (REDItools, RRID:SCR_012133)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In this study, all samples were processed through a SARS-CoV-2 reference-based assembly pipeline that involved removing non-SARS-CoV-2 reads with Kraken2[22] and aligning to the SARS-CoV-2 reference genome NC_045512.2 by using Samtools[23].</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Kraken2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>
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  Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
  However, this research has several limitations. First, the insufficient clinical information on these sequences may have led to missing some mutations associated with clinical outcomes. Second, given that some raw RNA-seq data were unavailable, the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 mutation and clinical outcomes at the patient level was not analyzed. Third, some hotspot mutations lacked experimental proof and thus require experimental verification.
  Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
  Results from Barzooka: We 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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