Rapid Reviews COVID-19

Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of COVID-19-related research preprints to advance new and important findings, and prevent the dissemination of false or misleading scientific news. The editors, led by Professor Stefano Bertozzi and based at UC Berkeley, approach COVID-19 and its wide-ranging effects from a multidisciplinary and global perspective, reviewing papers from the fields of medicine; public health; the physical, biological, and chemical sciences; engineering; social sciences and the humanities. Read more about RR:C19 here.

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Reviews of "Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route"

Published: Sep 25, 2020

This manuscript does not demonstrate sufficient scientific evidence to support its claims. Claims are at times baseless and are not supported by the data and methods used. Decision-makers should consider the author's claims in this study misleading.

Reviews of "Supporting Families to Protect Child Health: Parenting Quality and Household Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Published: Oct 11, 2020

Reviews of "College campuses and COVID-19 mitigation: clinical and economic value"

Published: Sep 30, 2020

Reviews of "Exploratory analysis of immunization records highlights decreased SARS-CoV-2 rates in individuals with recent non-COVID-19 vaccinations"

Published: Sep 22, 2020

Reviews of "HIV infection and COVID-19 death: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform"

Published: Sep 16, 2020

Reviews of "Demographic Differences in US Adult Intentions to Receive a Potential Coronavirus Vaccine and Implications for Ongoing Study"

Published: Oct 08, 2020

Reviews of "Child and parent physical activity, sleep and screen time during COVID-19 compared to pre-pandemic nationally representative data and associations with mental health"

Published: Oct 19, 2020

Reviews of "Impact of Glucose-Lowering Drugs on Mortality and Other Adverse Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Admitted for COVID-19"

Published: Oct 16, 2020

Reviews of "Tocilizumab in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia"

Published: Oct 16, 2020

Reviews of "Impact of Glucocorticoids and Immunosuppressive Therapies on Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Large Cohort of Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis"

Published: Oct 08, 2020

Reviews of "Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection linked to MAIT cell activation and cytotoxicity: evidence for an IL-18 dependent mechanism"

Published: Oct 09, 2020

Reviews of "Predicted success of prophylactic antiviral therapy to block or delay SARS-CoV-2 infection depends on the drug’s mechanism of action"

Published: Aug 19, 2020

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Editor's Spotlight

Strong consensus that SARS-COV-2 origin study is misleading and not supported by evidence.

Reviews of "Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route"

Public Health

Reviews of "Supporting Families to Protect Child Health: Parenting Quality and Household Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Reviews of "College campuses and COVID-19 mitigation: clinical and economic value"

Reviews of "Exploratory analysis of immunization records highlights decreased SARS-CoV-2 rates in individuals with recent non-COVID-19 vaccinations"

Reviews of "HIV infection and COVID-19 death: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform"

Humanities and Social Sciences

Reviews of "Demographic Differences in US Adult Intentions to Receive a Potential Coronavirus Vaccine and Implications for Ongoing Study"

Reviews of "Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria"

Reviews of "The Personal Responsibility Pandemic: Centering Solidarity in Public Health and Employment Law"

Reviews of "Electoral Repercussions of a Pandemic: Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak"

Medical Sciences

Reviews of "Child and parent physical activity, sleep and screen time during COVID-19 compared to pre-pandemic nationally representative data and associations with mental health"

Reviews of "Impact of Glucose-Lowering Drugs on Mortality and Other Adverse Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Admitted for COVID-19"

Reviews of "Tocilizumab in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia"

Reviews of "Impact of Glucocorticoids and Immunosuppressive Therapies on Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Large Cohort of Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis"

Biological and Chemical Sciences

Reviews of "Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection linked to MAIT cell activation and cytotoxicity: evidence for an IL-18 dependent mechanism"

Reviews of "Identification of 14 Known Drugs as Inhibitors of the Main Protease of SARS-CoV-2"

Reviews of "SARS-CoV-2 infects brain choroid plexus and disrupts the blood-CSF-barrier"

Reviews of "Development of antibodies to pan-coronavirus spike peptides in convalescent COVID-19 patients"

Physical Sciences and Engineering

Reviews of "How early into the outbreak can surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater tell us?"

Reviews of "Quantitative Assessment of Olfactory Dysfunction Accurately Detects Asymptomatic COVID-19 Carriers"

Reviews of "Human organ chip-enabled pipeline to rapidly repurpose therapeutics during viral pandemics"

Reviews of "Predicted success of prophylactic antiviral therapy to block or delay SARS-CoV-2 infection depends on the drug’s mechanism of action"

Reviewer Spotlight: Jeffrey Way

"The manuscript has a number of defects, most of which can be remedied without doing more experiments. Publication should at least be deferred until these issues are addressed."