{"id":779,"date":"2020-09-08T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=779"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:12:20","slug":"frequency-and-accuracy-of-proactive-testing-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/08\/frequency-and-accuracy-of-proactive-testing-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequency and Accuracy of Proactive Testing for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]In the context of outbreak control on university campuses, Bergstrom et al. modeled the potential trade-offs of testing accuracy, frequency, and delay of results and found that even with a false negative rate of 30%, testing every second day can reduce R<sub>0<\/sub> from 2.5 to below 1 given a one day delay of results.<\/li>\n<li>Even if tests are done daily, a 2-day delay would not be able to lower R<sub>0<\/sub> below 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Bergstrom et al. (Sept 8, 2020). Frequency and Accuracy of Proactive Testing for COVID-19. Pre-print downloaded Sep 8 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.05.20188839\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.05.20188839<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]In the context of outbreak control on university campuses, Bergstrom et al. modeled the potential trade-offs of testing accuracy, frequency, and delay of results and found that even with a false negative rate of 30%, testing every second day can reduce R0 from 2.5 to below 1 given a one day delay of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/08\/frequency-and-accuracy-of-proactive-testing-for-covid-19\/\">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":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-779","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\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}