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The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America

2020· article· en· 427 citations· W3085879587 on OpenAlex· 10.1126/science.abc8169

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.
Canadian funderA Canadian agency funded it. The work may carry no Canadian affiliation at all.

Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
Metaresearch
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.131
Threshold uncertainty score
0.992
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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

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.

Opus teacher head0.373
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread
0.066 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

A series of unfortunate events The history of how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread around the planet has been far from clear. Several narratives have been propagated by social media and, in some cases, national policies were forged in response. Now that many thousands of virus sequences are available, two studies analyzed some of the key early events in the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Bedford et al. found that the virus arrived in Washington state in late January or early February. The viral genome from the first case detected had mutations similar to those found in Chinese samples and rapidly spread and dominated subsequent undetected community transmission. The other viruses detected had origins in Europe. Worobey et al. found that early introductions into Germany and the west coast of the United States were extinguished by vigorous public health efforts, but these successes were largely unrecognized. Unfortunately, several major travel events occurred in February, including repatriations from China, with lax public health follow-up. Serial, independent introductions triggered the major outbreaks in the United States and Europe that still hold us in the grip of control measures. Science , this issue p. 571 , p. 564

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The record

Venue
Science
Topic
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Field
Mathematics
Canadian institutions
AIDS VancouverUniversity of British Columbia
Funders
H2020 European Research CouncilU.S. National Library of MedicineFogarty International CenterNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilCollege of Science, University of ArizonaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchDirectorate for Biological SciencesNational Institutes of HealthVlaamse regeringEuropean CommissionNvidiaCenters for Disease Control and PreventionWashington State UniversityWellcome TrustDavid and Lucile Packard FoundationGenome CanadaGilead Sciences
Keywords
OutbreakContact tracingTransmission (telecommunications)Public healthSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Public health interventionsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)ChinaCoronavirus2019-20 coronavirus outbreakGeographyVirologyEnvironmental healthMedicineDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes