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Author's Response to Peer Reviews of “Risk Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Global Epidemiological Study”

Author's Response to Peer Reviews of “Risk Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Global Epidemiological Study”

Author's Response to Peer Reviews of “Risk Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Global Epidemiological Study”

Authors of this article:

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    Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews

    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Corresponding Author:

    William Alphonse Barletta, PhD

    Department of Physics

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    77 Massachusetts Avenue

    Cambridge, MA, 02142

    United States

    Phone: 1 510 282 0240

    Email: barletta@mit.edu


    Related ArticlesPreprint (medRxiv): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.30.20204990v1
    Preprint: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/28843
    Peer-Review Report by Anonymous: https://med.jmirx.org/2021/3/e31926/
    Peer-Review Report by Palash Banik (Reviewer D): https://med.jmirx.org/2021/3/e31927/
    Published Article: https://med.jmirx.org/2021/3/e28843/
    JMIRx Med 2021;2(3):e31910

    doi:10.2196/31910

    Keywords

    COVID-19; pandemic; public health; mortality; infection; risk; risk factors; age; epidemiology; infectious disease 

    This is the author’s response to peer-review reports submitted for the paper "Risk Factors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Global Epidemiological Study".


    Author’s response to the review of the manuscript:

    1. The Abstract and body of the text of the manuscript [1] have been restructured to conform with the standard format of the journal (ie, Background, Objective, Method, Results, Conclusions).
    2. The revised text is based on the updated manuscript as recommended by the editor.
    3. Figures that were suggested for deletion have been removed. All figures have been sized and reformatted per journal policy.
    4. All footnotes have been removed, and the relevant information has been made part of the text or a numbered reference.
    5. Equations are numbered for appropriate reference in the text.
    6. I have added some quantitative values in the Results section of the Abstract.
    7. I have removed the author-defined acronym, “CFR,” for apparent case fatality ratio.
    8. Two references have been added in the Summary section.
    9. The Summary and Conclusions have been expended to suggest potential effects of new SARS-CoV-2 variants.

    Conflicts of Interest

    None declared.

    1. Barletta WA. Risk factors of SARS-CoV-2 infection: global epidemiological study. JMIRx Med 2021 Aug 18;2(3):e28843 [FREE Full text] [CrossRef]

    Edited by E Meinert; This is a non–peer-reviewed article. submitted 08.07.21; accepted 08.07.21; published 26.08.21

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