{"id":4590,"date":"2020-02-24T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:11:18","slug":"assessing-the-impact-of-a-symptom-based-mass-screening-and-testing-intervention-during-a-novel-infectious-disease-outbreak-the-case-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/24\/assessing-the-impact-of-a-symptom-based-mass-screening-and-testing-intervention-during-a-novel-infectious-disease-outbreak-the-case-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the impact of a symptom-based mass screening and testing intervention during a novel infectious disease outbreak: The case of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Symptom-based mass screening and testing interventions (MSTI) can be effective at preventing or reducing disease transmission if implemented correctly. The authors discuss pitfalls of MSTI approaches and strategies to improve effectiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ge et al. (Feb 23, 2020). Assessing the impact of a symptom-based mass screening and testing intervention during a novel infectious disease outbreak: The case of COVID-19. Pre-print downloaded Feb 23 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.20.20025973\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.20.20025973<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptom-based mass screening and testing interventions (MSTI) can be effective at preventing or reducing disease transmission if implemented correctly. The authors discuss pitfalls of MSTI approaches and strategies to improve effectiveness.\u00a0 Ge et al. (Feb 23, 2020). Assessing the impact of a symptom-based mass screening and testing intervention during a novel infectious disease outbreak: The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/24\/assessing-the-impact-of-a-symptom-based-mass-screening-and-testing-intervention-during-a-novel-infectious-disease-outbreak-the-case-of-covid-19\/\">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":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}