“…To elucidate factors associated with differences in SAR, we explored attributes of studies from the periods with the lowest and highest household SARs. Among 28 studies 12,14,17,27,94 from January to February 2020 and 15 studies 5,8,10,18,20,21,23,24,29,31,32,35,37,38,40 from July 2020 to March 2021, 6 studies 12,46,54,57,59,62 (21.4%) and 4 studies 8,10,20,23 (25.0%), respectively, reported testing contacts at least twice, 1 study 46 (3.6%) and 3 studies 5,8,23 (18.8%) reported following contacts for longer than 14 days, 1 study 45 (3.6%) and 6 studies 8,23,24,29,37,40 (33.3%) were published as preprints, 21 studies 12,14,27,46,[48][49][50]…”