Enhanced testing can substantially improve defense against several types of respiratory virus pandemic.

• Tác giả: James A Hay, Joanna Masel, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, James Petrie, Oraya Srimokla, Charles Whittaker
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 948.5038 *Sweden
• Thông tin xuất bản: Netherlands : Epidemics , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 710100

Tóm tắt

Mass testing to identify and isolate infected individuals is a promising approach for reducing harm from the next acute respiratory virus pandemic. It offers the prospect of averting hospitalizations and deaths whilst avoiding the need for indiscriminate social distancing measures. To understand scenarios where mass testing might or might not be a viable intervention, here we modeled how effectiveness depends both on characteristics of the pathogen (R