{"id":7780,"date":"2020-06-24T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:47:33","slug":"simulation-of-pool-testing-to-identify-patients-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-under-conditions-of-limited-test-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/simulation-of-pool-testing-to-identify-patients-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-under-conditions-of-limited-test-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulation of Pool Testing to Identify Patients\u00a0With\u00a0Coronavirus Disease 2019 Under Conditions of Limited Test Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Using mathematical simulations,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cherif<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. suggest that a pool<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0testing strategy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing a pooled sample from several patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was more\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">efficient<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">than individual testing when prevalence was below 30%. The optimal pool size\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was inversely related<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 positive specimens and the sensitivity of the assay.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cherif<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (June 23, 2020). Simulation of Pool Testing to Identify Patients\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">With<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Coronavirus Disease 2019 Under Conditions of Limited Test Availability. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.13075\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.13075<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using mathematical simulations,\u00a0Cherif\u00a0et al. suggest that a pooled\u00a0testing strategy\u00a0(testing a pooled sample from several patients)\u00a0was more\u00a0efficient\u00a0than individual testing when prevalence was below 30%. The optimal pool size\u00a0was inversely related\u00a0to the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 positive specimens and the sensitivity of the assay.\u00a0 Cherif\u00a0et al. (June 23, 2020). Simulation of Pool Testing to Identify Patients\u00a0With\u00a0Coronavirus Disease 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/simulation-of-pool-testing-to-identify-patients-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-under-conditions-of-limited-test-availability\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-7780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780","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=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}