{"id":1928,"date":"2020-11-02T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2020-11-03T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T20:38:53","slug":"norwich-covid-19-testing-initiative-pilot-evaluating-the-feasibility-of-asymptomatic-testing-on-a-university-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/02\/norwich-covid-19-testing-initiative-pilot-evaluating-the-feasibility-of-asymptomatic-testing-on-a-university-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich COVID-19 Testing Initiative Pilot: Evaluating the Feasibility of Asymptomatic Testing on a University Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study in a university setting in England indicated that universal, repeated self-testing for COVID-19 using PCR was both acceptable, and could be feasible. Staff and student participants (n = 1053) were given four PCR swabs to self-administer over 2 weeks. 76% participants provided at least one swab, among whom 86% provided all four. Of those who submitted at least one swab, none had a positive test (6 participants with one inconclusive result). Mean acceptability score was 4.5\/5 (5 was most positive) among the 57% of participants who responded to a post-testing survey.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Gillam et al. (Oct 30, 2020). Norwich COVID-19 Testing Initiative Pilot: Evaluating the Feasibility of Asymptomatic Testing on a University Campus. Journal of Public Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pubmed\/fdaa194\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pubmed\/fdaa194<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study in a university setting in England indicated that universal, repeated self-testing for COVID-19 using PCR was both acceptable, and could be feasible. Staff and student participants (n = 1053) were given four PCR swabs to self-administer over 2 weeks. 76% participants provided at least one swab, among whom 86% provided all four&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/02\/norwich-covid-19-testing-initiative-pilot-evaluating-the-feasibility-of-asymptomatic-testing-on-a-university-campus\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}