{"id":8266,"date":"2020-07-16T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:40:58","slug":"smart-pooling-ai-powered-covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/smart-pooling-ai-powered-covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Pooling AI-Powered COVID-19 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Escobar et al. developed a pooling method\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for SARS-CoV-2 testing protocols\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that uses machine learning to predict the probability of a negative result from sociodemographic data<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The techni<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">que was most efficient at lower\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">disease\u00a0prevalence<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and\u00a0showed efficiency gains of 42% with respect to individual testing at disease prevalence up to 25%.<\/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\">Escobar et al. (July 15, 2020). Smart Pooling AI-Powered COVID-19 Testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded July 16 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.13.20152983\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.13.20152983<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Escobar et al. developed a pooling method\u00a0for SARS-CoV-2 testing protocols\u00a0that uses machine learning to predict the probability of a negative result from sociodemographic data. The technique was most efficient at lower\u00a0disease\u00a0prevalence, and\u00a0showed efficiency gains of 42% with respect to individual testing at disease prevalence up to 25%.\u00a0 Escobar et al. (July 15,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/smart-pooling-ai-powered-covid-19-testing\/\">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-8266","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\/8266","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=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8267,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/8267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}