{"id":7421,"date":"2021-03-23T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:46:48","slug":"surveillance-based-informative-testing-for-detection-and-containment-of-sars-cov-2-outbreaks-on-a-public-university-campus-an-observational-and-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/23\/surveillance-based-informative-testing-for-detection-and-containment-of-sars-cov-2-outbreaks-on-a-public-university-campus-an-observational-and-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance-Based Informative Testing for Detection and Containment of SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks on a Public University Campus: An Observational and Modelling Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A novel strategy of random testing combined with follow-up targeted testing in outbreak areas (\u201csurveillance-based informative testing\u201d, SBIT) was associated with a 36% reduction in peak weekly COVID-19 cases at Clemson University in South Carolina over a 2-week period. The strategy helped identify outbreaks in 45 residence halls across 8 buildings. Transmission models based on testing data suggested that random surveillance testing alone without follow-up targeted testing would have resulted in 24% more cases throughout the semester, and up to 154% more cases in the absence of SBIT compared to voluntary testing alone.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rennert et al.\u00a0(Mar 22, 2021). Surveillance-Based Informative Testing for Detection and Containment of SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks on a Public University Campus: An Observational and Modelling Study. The Lancet Child &amp; Adolescent Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(21)00060-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(21)00060-2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel strategy of random testing combined with follow-up targeted testing in outbreak areas (\u201csurveillance-based informative testing\u201d, SBIT) was associated with a 36% reduction in peak weekly COVID-19 cases at Clemson University in South Carolina over a 2-week period. The strategy helped identify outbreaks in 45 residence halls across 8 buildings. Transmission models based on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/23\/surveillance-based-informative-testing-for-detection-and-containment-of-sars-cov-2-outbreaks-on-a-public-university-campus-an-observational-and-modelling-study\/\">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":[203,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-college","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","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=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7422,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}