Sequential coupling of dry and wet COVID-19 screening to reduce the number of quarantined individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Currently, several countries are facing severe public health and policy challenges when designing their COVID-19 screening strategy. A quantitative analysis of the potential impact that combing the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT; Wet screening) and digital checker (Dry screening) can have on the healthcare system is lacking.

Method

We created a hypothetical COVID-19 cohort for the analysis. The population size was set as 10 million with three levels of disease prevalence (10%, 1%, or 0.1%) under the assumption that a positive test result will lead to quarantine. A digital checker and two RATs are used for analysis. We further hypothesized two scenarios: RAT only and RAT plus digital checker. We then calculated the number of quarantined in both scenarios and compared th

SUBMITTER: Po Harvey Chin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882032 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature