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Frequency of Routine Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in High-risk Healthcare Environments to Reduce Outbreaks

Published:2020-10-26 Issue:9 Volume:73 Page:e3127-e3129
ISSN:1058-4838
Container-title:Clinical Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Chin Elizabeth T¹^ORCID,Huynh Benjamin Q¹^ORCID,Chapman Lloyd A C²,Murrill Matthew²^ORCID,Basu Sanjay³⁴⁵^ORCID,Lo Nathan C²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

2. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

3. Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

4. Research and Population Health, Collective Health, San Francisco, California, USA

5. School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

Abstract Routine asymptomatic testing strategies for COVID-19 have been proposed to prevent outbreaks in high-risk healthcare environments. We used simulation modeling to evaluate the optimal frequency of viral testing. We found that routine testing substantially reduces risk of outbreaks, but may need to be as frequent as twice weekly.

Funder

National Science Foundation

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical)

Link

http://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1383/34032762/ciaa1383.pdf

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