{"id":8056,"date":"2020-07-08T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:48:54","slug":"optimising-benefits-of-testing-key-workers-for-infection-with-sars-cov-2-a-mathematical-modelling-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/08\/optimising-benefits-of-testing-key-workers-for-infection-with-sars-cov-2-a-mathematical-modelling-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimising\u00a0Benefits of Testing Key Workers for Infection with SARS-CoV-2: A Mathematical Modelling Analysis"},"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\">Sandmann et al. modeled the impact of various testing strategies on the risk of workplace transmission and absences for essential workers: (i) testing workers with SARS-CoV-2-like symptoms who self-isolated, (ii) testing asymptomatic workers in household quarantine, and (iii) universal testing. Universal testing of staff had the largest reduction\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">per test in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">workplace transmission, while only testing asymptomatic workers in household quarantine has the largest reduction<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0per test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in absences.<\/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\">Sandmann et al. (July 8, 2020).\u00a0Optimising\u00a0Benefits of Testing Key Workers for Infection with SARS-CoV-2: A Mathematical Modelling Analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa901\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa901<\/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>Sandmann et al. modeled the impact of various testing strategies on the risk of workplace transmission and absences for essential workers: (i) testing workers with SARS-CoV-2-like symptoms who self-isolated, (ii) testing asymptomatic workers in household quarantine, and (iii) universal testing. Universal testing of staff had the largest reduction\u00a0per test in\u00a0workplace transmission, while only testing asymptomatic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/08\/optimising-benefits-of-testing-key-workers-for-infection-with-sars-cov-2-a-mathematical-modelling-analysis\/\">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-8056","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\/8056","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=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8057,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}