4 ms·

"Received: 22 March 2020" - direct from the study cover page at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/

by cheald 6y ago

"Received: 22 March 2020" - direct from the study cover page at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference.... States imposed lockdowns between March 21 and early April. Someone want to explain to me how a study submitted before the lockdowns were issued (nevermind had time to actually have an impact) "found" those results?

sauwan 6y ago
It must be a typo. March 22nd was a Sunday, where May 22nd was a Friday. It seems unlikely that it would take over 2 months to accept it, considering so many other articles are being rushed to publication in fractions of that time. ETA: also, charts in that publication also show data collected from April, so unlikely they had data from the future.