Covidscreen: a web app and R Package for assessing asymptomatic COVID-19 testing strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 has caused over 305 million infections and nearly 5.5 million deaths globally. With complete eradication unlikely, organizations will need to evaluate their risk and the benefits of mitigation strategies, including the effects of regular asymptomatic testing. We developed a web application and R package that provides estimates and visualizations to aid the assessment of organizational infection risk and testing benefits to facilitate decision-making, which combines internal and community information with malleable assumptions.

Results

Our web application, covidscreen, presents estimated values of risk metrics in an intuitive graphical format. It shows the current expected number of active, primarily community-acquired infections among employees in an orga

SUBMITTER: Smith J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9284969 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature