Designing isolation guidelines for COVID-19 patients with rapid antigen tests.

ABSTRACT: Appropriate isolation guidelines for COVID-19 patients are warranted. Currently, isolating for fixed time is adopted in most countries. However, given the variability in viral dynamics between patients, some patients may no longer be infectious by the end of isolation, whereas others may still be infectious. Utilizing viral test results to determine isolation length would minimize both the risk of prematurely ending isolation of infectious patients and the unnecessary individual burden of redundant isolation of noninfectious patients. In this study, we develop a data-driven computational framework to compute the population-level risk and the burden of different isolation guidelines with rapid antigen tests (i.e., lateral flow tests). Here, we show that when the detection limit is higher th

SUBMITTER: Jeong YD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9392070 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature