Selected article for: "Ice Bucket challenge and net worth"
Author: Ni, Michael Y; Chan, Brandford H Y; Leung, Gabriel M; Lau, Eric H Y; Pang, Herbert
Title: Transmissibility of the Ice Bucket Challenge among globally influential celebrities: retrospective cohort study
  • Document date: 2014_12_16
    • ID: pun1l9bt_12
    Snippet: We had limited power to detect differences in R0 for personal factors as the inclusion criteria restricted the number of eligible index cases. Reporting of the Ice Bucket Challenge might have been socially patterned, contributing to potentially biased associations between transmissibility and net worth. The epidemiological assessment is based on a non-representative sample, and generalisability to other population groups is limited. We did not ac.....
    Document: We had limited power to detect differences in R0 for personal factors as the inclusion criteria restricted the number of eligible index cases. Reporting of the Ice Bucket Challenge might have been socially patterned, contributing to potentially biased associations between transmissibility and net worth. The epidemiological assessment is based on a non-representative sample, and generalisability to other population groups is limited. We did not account for the likely broader influence19 of our cohort of global celebrities on the much larger population of fans and followers worldwide (average of 6.5 million Facebook likes per cohort participant), thus underestimating the overall R0, analogous to the “super spreader” concept.20

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