{"id":8699,"date":"2020-08-03T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:52:56","slug":"assessment-of-sars-cov-2-screening-strategies-to-permit-the-safe-reopening-of-college-campuses-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/assessment-of-sars-cov-2-screening-strategies-to-permit-the-safe-reopening-of-college-campuses-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Screening Strategies to Permit the Safe Reopening of College Campuses in the United States"},"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\">Paltiel<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0conducted a modeling study with a hypothetical cohort of 5,000\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residential college students<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0including 10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(0.2%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with undetected, asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and found that a symptom-based screening strategy was not sufficient to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">contain an outbreak in any model scenario<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">creening every 1, 2, and 7 days resulted in a cumulative infection of 162, 243 or 1840, respectively<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ssuming\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Rt of 2.5 and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with 70% sensitivity and 98% specificity<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Cost-effectiveness analysis showed that screening every 2 days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">coupled with strict behavioral interventions to keep Rt below 2.5, would maintain a controllable number of COVID-19 infections\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with an estimated cost of $470 per student per semester<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Paltiel<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (July 31, 2020). Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Screening Strategies to Permit the Safe Reopening of College Campuses in the United States. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16818\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16818<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paltiel\u00a0et al.\u00a0conducted a modeling study with a hypothetical cohort of 5,000\u00a0residential college students\u00a0including 10\u00a0(0.2%)\u00a0with undetected, asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, and found that a symptom-based screening strategy was not sufficient to\u00a0contain an outbreak in any model scenario.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screening every 1, 2, and 7 days resulted in a cumulative infection of 162, 243 or 1840, respectively,\u00a0assuming\u00a0an\u00a0Rt of 2.5&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/assessment-of-sars-cov-2-screening-strategies-to-permit-the-safe-reopening-of-college-campuses-in-the-united-states\/\">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-8699","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\/8699","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=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8700,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions\/8700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}