{"id":6416,"date":"2021-03-10T21:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2021-03-10T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:51:56","slug":"modeling-transmission-dynamics-and-effectiveness-of-worker-screening-programs-for-sars-cov-2-in-pork-processing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/10\/modeling-transmission-dynamics-and-effectiveness-of-worker-screening-programs-for-sars-cov-2-in-pork-processing-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Transmission Dynamics and Effectiveness of Worker Screening Programs for SARS-CoV-2 in Pork Processing Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A modeling study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and screening programs in pork processing facilities during spring 2020 found that the effectiveness of routine PCR-screening at minimizing disease spread was influenced more by testing frequency than delays in results<i>,\u00a0<\/i>the initial reproduction number<i>,<\/i> or background community transmission rates. While testing every three days prevented ~25- 40% of clinical cases and testing every 14 days averted ~7-13% of clinical cases, the absolute number of additional clinical cases was influenced by whether there was residual immunity from a previous peak. The authors suggest that when using PCR-screening to prevent outbreaks or in the early stages of an outbreak, frequent testing may not prevent a large outbreak.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>VanderWaal et al.\u00a0(Mar 5, 2021). Modeling Transmission Dynamics and Effectiveness of Worker Screening Programs for SARS-CoV-2 in Pork Processing Plants. Pre-print downloaded Mar 10 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.02.21249552\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.02.21249552<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A modeling study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and screening programs in pork processing facilities during spring 2020 found that the effectiveness of routine PCR-screening at minimizing disease spread was influenced more by testing frequency than delays in results,\u00a0the initial reproduction number, or background community transmission rates. While testing every three days prevented ~25-&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/10\/modeling-transmission-dynamics-and-effectiveness-of-worker-screening-programs-for-sars-cov-2-in-pork-processing-plant\/\">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":[150,39,37,27],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","tag-modeling","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-testing","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","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=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}