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Toward a COVID-19 testing policy: where and how to test when the purpose is to isolate silent spreaders

2020-12-24

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<h4>Summary</h4> <h4>Background</h4> To stop pandemics, such as COVID-19, infected individuals should be detected, treated if needed, and –to prevent contacts with susceptible individuals-isolated. Because most infected individuals may be asymptomatic, when testing misses such cases, epidemics may growth exponentially, inducing a high number of deaths. In contrast, a relatively low number of COVID-19 related dea...

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DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.22.20223651

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