{"id":6268,"date":"2021-03-09T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2021-03-09T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:24:25","slug":"clinical-and-economic-effects-of-widespread-rapid-testing-to-decrease-sars-cov-2-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/clinical-and-economic-effects-of-widespread-rapid-testing-to-decrease-sars-cov-2-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical and Economic Effects of Widespread Rapid Testing to Decrease SARS-CoV-2 Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A transmission model calibrated to the US population suggests that implementing weekly home-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing could avert 2.8 million infections and 15,700 deaths over 60 days. In contrast, a scenario with no testing anticipates 11.6 million infections and 119,000 deaths over the same time period. While the scenario with testing could cost an additional $22.3 million compared to the scenario with no testing, lower inpatient costs and fewer workdays lost could offset the costs and yield incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of $8,000 per infection averted and $1.4 million per death averted (for reference, the commonly accepted willingness-to-pay values per statistical life saved are between $5-17 million). <i>[EDITORIAL NOTE: A pre-print related to this manuscript was summarized on February 9, 2020]<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Paltiel et al.\u00a0(Mar 9, 2021). Clinical and Economic Effects of Widespread Rapid Testing to Decrease SARS-CoV-2 Transmission. Annals of Internal Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M21-0510\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M21-0510<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transmission model calibrated to the US population suggests that implementing weekly home-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing could avert 2.8 million infections and 15,700 deaths over 60 days. In contrast, a scenario with no testing anticipates 11.6 million infections and 119,000 deaths over the same time period. While the scenario with testing could cost an additional&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/clinical-and-economic-effects-of-widespread-rapid-testing-to-decrease-sars-cov-2-transmission\/\">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":[117,27],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antigen","tag-testing","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","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=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}