Fig. 1: Time from submission to acceptance for journal articles with received and accepted dates.

a, COVID-19 articles. b, Ebola articles. c, Cardiovascular disease articles. d, Articles published in the same journals in 2019 in which COVID-19 articles were published. e, Articles published in the same journals in 2020 in which COVID-19 articles were published, excluding COVID-19 articles. f, Articles published in the same journals in 2020 in which COVID-19 articles were published, including COVID-19 articles. In all panels, the purple line represents 7 days, the blue line 30 days and the red line 100 days from time of article receipt.