{"id":10031,"date":"2021-05-26T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2021-05-27T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T22:06:33","slug":"feasibility-and-utility-of-rapid-antigen-testing-for-covid-19-in-a-university-residence-a-cross-sectional-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/26\/feasibility-and-utility-of-rapid-antigen-testing-for-covid-19-in-a-university-residence-a-cross-sectional-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Feasibility and Utility of Rapid Antigen Testing for COVID-19 in a University Residence a Cross Sectional Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> An evaluation of a rapid testing program among 1141 resident students and staff at a university in British Columbia found that the use of rapid antigen tests was feasible, inexpensive, and increased sensitivity for detection of active SARS-CoV-2 infections. The testing program utilized the BD Veritor COVID-19 rapid antigen test and participants were invited to test up to 3 times per week. Mean number of tests per person was 3 and mean duration between tests was 7 days. 25 RT-PCR positive tests and 8 false positive rapid antigen tests were detected, all of whom were asymptomatic. 98% of participants reported rapid antigen testing was acceptable or very acceptable and 97% reported they would come back again for another test. The authors suggest that rapid antigen screening programs could potentially interrupt transmission chains and reduce overall community spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wong et al. (May 26, 2021). Feasibility and Utility of Rapid Antigen Testing for COVID-19 in a University Residence a Cross Sectional Study. Pre-print downloaded May 26 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.24.21257732\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.24.21257732<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] An evaluation of a rapid testing program among 1141 resident students and staff at a university in British Columbia found that the use of rapid antigen tests was feasible, inexpensive, and increased sensitivity for detection of active SARS-CoV-2 infections. The testing program utilized the BD Veritor COVID-19 rapid antigen test and participants&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/26\/feasibility-and-utility-of-rapid-antigen-testing-for-covid-19-in-a-university-residence-a-cross-sectional-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}