Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

May 18, 2020

Early and Massive Testing Saves Lives COVID-19: Related Infections and Deaths in the United States during March of 2020

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  • A prediction model using COVID-19 data from the US up to March 31, 2020 indicates that early testing for SARS-CoV-2 with a large number of tests per capita is associated lower cumulative mortality in eighteen states.  

Hittner et al. (May 16, 2020). Early and Massive Testing Saves Lives COVID-19: Related Infections and Deaths in the United States during March of 2020. Pre-print downloaded May 18 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.14.20102483