Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

September 8, 2020

College Campuses and COVID-19 Mitigation Clinical and Economic Value

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  • [Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Cost modeling indicates that implementing extensive social distancing with masks on college campuses could prevent up to 87% of COVID-19 cases at a cost of $168 per case prevented. Adding lab testing of asymptomatic students every 3 days would prevent up to 96% of cases, but would raise the cost to $8,300 per case prevented for tests that cost $10 per test. Using a $1 test would cost $275 per case prevented.

Losina et al. (Sept 5, 2020). College Campuses and COVID-19 Mitigation Clinical and Economic Value. Pre-print downloaded Sep 8 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.03.20187062