{"id":654,"date":"2020-09-01T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=654"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:57:32","slug":"a-simple-approach-to-optimum-pool-size-for-pooled-sars-cov-2-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/01\/a-simple-approach-to-optimum-pool-size-for-pooled-sars-cov-2-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Approach to Optimum Pool Size for Pooled SARS-CoV-2 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In determining the optimal sample pooling size for large-scale SARS-CoV-2 testing, Regen et al. found that sample pooling only marginally improves testing capacities in high prevalence settings (&gt;10%) while potentially substantially reducing costs and saving labor in low prevalence settings. The investigators derived a simple-to-use formula for calculating the optimal pool size given a target prevalence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Regen et al. (Aug 22, 2020). A Simple Approach to Optimum Pool Size for Pooled SARS-CoV-2 Testing. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.08.063\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.08.063<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In determining the optimal sample pooling size for large-scale SARS-CoV-2 testing, Regen et al. found that sample pooling only marginally improves testing capacities in high prevalence settings (&gt;10%) while potentially substantially reducing costs and saving labor in low prevalence settings. The investigators derived a simple-to-use formula for calculating the optimal pool size given a target&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/01\/a-simple-approach-to-optimum-pool-size-for-pooled-sars-cov-2-testing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}