How old is the post you're responding to? Why are you so obsessed with this issue when you don't even live in Michigan, let along the city?Is Detroit suddenly in a hurricane-prone region? There's no reason plywood has to be affixed to building framing, so long as the connections are capable of resisting components-and-cladding wind loads as calculated per ASCE 7.
Screws have the same strength regardless of how they are installed. I think you're referring to the tensile load capacity of the connection.
Let it go, man.
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