Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

January 26, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 Control on a Large Urban College Campus Without Mass Testing

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[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Testing of symptomatic students combined with a random subset of asymptomatic students at the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated a prevalence SARS-CoV-2 infection of 0.4% and a case rate of 232 per 10,000 students, comparable to the case rates of other public urban institutions that implemented mass-testing. The authors suggest that targeted testing, combined with a focus on behavioral mitigation and communication, could achieve a similar but less resource-intensive degree of virus control compared to mass testing.

O’Donnell et al. (Jan 25, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Control on a Large Urban College Campus Without Mass Testing. Pre-print downloaded Jan 26 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.21.21249825