{"id":1037,"date":"2020-09-21T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:16:54","slug":"clinical-impact-costs-and-cost-effectiveness-of-expanded-sars-cov-2-testing-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/21\/clinical-impact-costs-and-cost-effectiveness-of-expanded-sars-cov-2-testing-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Impact, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Neilan et al. conducted a modeling study to examine testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 under scenarios of different transmission intensity. In a scenario where transmission is slowing (R<sub>e<\/sub>=0.9), testing the entire population monthly and testing people with COVID-19 symptoms as needed would reduce infections by 63% and mortality by 44% compared to testing only patients with severe\/critical symptoms warranting hospitalization, but would require &gt;66-fold more tests\/day with 5-fold higher costs. Despite modest sensitivity, low-cost (\u2264$5), repeat screening (every 14-day) of the entire population could be cost-effective in all epidemic settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neilan et al. (Sept 18, 2020). Clinical Impact, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Massachusetts. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1418\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1418<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neilan et al. conducted a modeling study to examine testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 under scenarios of different transmission intensity. In a scenario where transmission is slowing (Re=0.9), testing the entire population monthly and testing people with COVID-19 symptoms as needed would reduce infections by 63% and mortality by 44% compared to testing only patients with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/21\/clinical-impact-costs-and-cost-effectiveness-of-expanded-sars-cov-2-testing-in-massachusetts\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[23],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}