{"id":9198,"date":"2020-08-19T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:20:43","slug":"comparison-of-molecular-testing-strategies-for-covid-19-control-a-mathematical-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/19\/comparison-of-molecular-testing-strategies-for-covid-19-control-a-mathematical-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Molecular Testing Strategies for COVID-19 Control: A Mathematical Modelling Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mathematical modeling by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Grassly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">indicates\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">o<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ptimal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 testing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">strategies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">would<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0include regular screening of high-risk groups such as health-care and social-care workers during pe<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">riods of sustained transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and testing of people with COVID-19 symptoms and tracing and quarantining their contacts. Test a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd trace\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">requires<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0high coverage<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and rapid testing and contact tracing to be effective. Testing alone is unlikely to bring\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the viral reproductive number<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0below 1 at current levels of immunity and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">would n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">eed to be complemented by other interventions<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Grassly<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 18, 2020). Comparison of Molecular Testing Strategies for COVID-19 Control: A Mathematical Modelling Study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30630-7\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30630-7<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical modeling by\u00a0Grassly\u00a0et al.\u00a0indicates\u00a0optimal\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 testing\u00a0strategies\u00a0would\u00a0include regular screening of high-risk groups such as health-care and social-care workers during periods of sustained transmission\u00a0and testing of people with COVID-19 symptoms and tracing and quarantining their contacts. Test and trace\u00a0requires\u00a0high coverage\u00a0and rapid testing and contact tracing to be effective. Testing alone is unlikely to bring\u00a0the viral reproductive number\u00a0below 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/19\/comparison-of-molecular-testing-strategies-for-covid-19-control-a-mathematical-modelling-study\/\">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-9198","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\/9198","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=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}