{"id":6522,"date":"2020-05-01T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:53:25","slug":"impact-of-virus-testing-on-covid-19-case-fatality-rate-estimate-using-a-fixed-effects-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/01\/impact-of-virus-testing-on-covid-19-case-fatality-rate-estimate-using-a-fixed-effects-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of virus testing on COVID-19 case fatality rate: estimate using a fixed-effects model"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terriau et al. report that a strategy of widespread screening for COVID-19 infection using RT-PCR and focusing on asymptomatic as well as symptomatic individuals could significantly decrease case-fatality ratios in France. They estimate 1 life would be saved for each additional 1000 screening tests of COVID-19 infection. The authors say their analysis supports implementation of mass screening strategies and can be used by decision-makers to implement measures to limit the disease spread.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terriau et al. (May 1, 2020). Impact of virus testing on COVID-19 case fatality rate: estimate using a fixed-effects model. Pre-print downloaded May 1 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.26.20080531\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.26.20080531<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terriau et al. report that a strategy of widespread screening for COVID-19 infection using RT-PCR and focusing on asymptomatic as well as symptomatic individuals could significantly decrease case-fatality ratios in France. They estimate 1 life would be saved for each additional 1000 screening tests of COVID-19 infection. The authors say their analysis supports implementation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/01\/impact-of-virus-testing-on-covid-19-case-fatality-rate-estimate-using-a-fixed-effects-model\/\">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":[23],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","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=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}