Peer Review of “Why We Are Losing the War Against COVID-19 on the Data Front and How to Reverse the Situation”
Laura Lafon-Hughes · JMIRx Med · 2021
This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper "Why We Are Losing the War Against COVID-19 on the Data Front and How to Reverse the Situation". Round 1 Review General CommentsThis paper [1] addresses a pressing issue: pandemic data collection and processing.The paper provides a clear diagnosis of why we are losing the war against COVID-19 on the data front (first part of the title), including all types of variables like technical aspects, medical staff overload and lack of time to fill in forms, ethical issues management, and bottlenecks for project presentations and analysis.However, the "how to reverse the situation" section (the second part of the title) is not in-depth and could be readdressed from a more practical, useful point of view.Below are some suggestions.