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Record W3049174309 · doi:10.29252/iem.6.2.143

Introduction to Novel Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), Its Impact and Treatments under Investigation

2020· article· en· W3049174309 on OpenAlexaff
Angela Liu, Puneet Arora, Meenakshi Sareen

Bibliographic record

VenueInfection Epidemiology and Microbiology · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Canadian institutionsOkanagan CollegeThompson Rivers UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAsymptomaticIntensive care unitCoronavirusMortality rateCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Mechanical ventilationIntensive care medicineSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Middle East respiratory syndromeSupportive psychotherapyInternal medicineDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)

Abstract

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Aims: This study aimed to provide more information about the influence of Coronavirus Disease2019 (COVID-19) on infected individuals.The symptoms, conditions, and treatments used may be served as important clues to find out potential medications.Materials & Methods: Various current papers were reviewed, and the findings were summarized.In addition, other diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which have similar causes or symptoms in patients, were investigated.Findings: The most common symptoms in infected patients were fever (98%), dry cough (76%), and dyspnoea (55%).Mechanical ventilation was the main supportive treatment for ICU patients, and the mortality rate of patients with chronic diseases in the intensive care unit (ICU) was high (55%).The virus is highly contagious compared to the previous Betacoronaviruses causing epidemic, but its mortality rate is lower so that most of the infected patients studied had minor symptoms or were asymptomatic.Several treatments, such as antiviral agents and antimalarial drugs, are presently being proposed and tested, but none have yet been proven to be effective.Conclusions: Seniors and patients with chronic diseases are at higher risk of COVID-19 induced severe consequences and mortality.Currently, supportive treatment is the mainstay for severely ill patients.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.243
GPT teacher head0.506
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2020
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