{"id":3809,"date":"2021-02-09T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:41:07","slug":"clinical-and-economic-impact-of-widespread-rapid-testing-to-decrease-sars-cov-2-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/clinical-and-economic-impact-of-widespread-rapid-testing-to-decrease-sars-cov-2-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical and Economic Impact of Widespread Rapid Testing to Decrease SARS-CoV-2 Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A transmission model calibrated to the US population suggests that implementing weekly home-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing could avert 4 million infections and 19,000 deaths over 60 days while being cost-effective. While a scenario with testing could cost up to $21.5 billion, lower inpatient costs and fewer workdays lost could offset the costs and yield an incremental cost per death averted of $1.1 million (for reference, the commonly accepted willingness-to-pay values per statistical life saved are between $5-17 million).<\/p>\n

Paltiel et al. (Feb 8, 2021). Clinical and Economic Impact of Widespread Rapid Testing to Decrease SARS-CoV-2 Transmission. Pre-print downloaded Feb 9 from <\/i>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.06.21251270<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A transmission model calibrated to the US population suggests that implementing weekly home-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing could avert 4 million infections and 19,000 deaths over 60 days while being cost-effective. While a scenario with testing could cost up to $21.5 billion, lower inpatient costs and fewer workdays lost could offset the costs…<\/p>\n

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