Group testing against Covid-19

Gollier, Christian and Gossner, Olivier ORCID: 0000-0003-3950-0208 (2020) Group testing against Covid-19. Covid Economics, 2.

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Abstract

We show how group testing can be used in three applications to multiply the efficiency of tests against COVID-19: estimating virus prevalence, releasing group to the work force, and testing for individual infectious status. For an infection level around 2%, group testing could potentially allow to save 94% of tests in the first application, 95% in the second, and 85% in the third one.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/COVID...
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	Mathematics
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	05 May 2020 23:10
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 02:08
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104228

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