Browsing Resources in English by Subject "Mass Screening"
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Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey evidence
(2020-05-08)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health crisis of the last 100 years. Countries have responded with various levels of lockdown to save lives and stop health systems from being overwhelmed. At the ... -
Bidirectional contact tracing is required for reliable COVID-19 control
(2020-05-10)Contact tracing is critical to limiting the spread of pandemics such as COVID-19, but most protocols only "forward-trace" to notify people who were recently exposed. Using a stochastic branching process model, we find that ... -
Containing Covid-19 outbreaks with spatiallytargeted short-term lockdowns and mass-testing
(2020-05-09)We assess the efficacy of spatially targeted lockdown or mass-testing and case-isolation in individual communities, as a compliment to contact-tracing and social-distancing, for containing SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. Using the ... -
Curbing the AI-induced enthusiasm in diagnosing COVID-19 on chest X-Rays: the present and the near-future
(2020-05-01)In the current context of COVID-19 pandemic, a rapid and accessible screening tool based on image processing of chest X-rays (CXRs) using machine learning (ML) approaches would be much needed. Initially, we intended to ... -
Efficient Prevalence Estimation and Population Screening for SARS-CoV-2
(2020-05-22)The testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR analyses can be substantially increased by using pooling techniques. Here we discuss two important consequences of this. First, prevalence estimation can be done with a very ... -
A novel strategy for community screening of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Sample pooling method
(2020-08-28)The rapid global spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has inflicted significant health and socioeconomic burden on affected countries. As positive cases continued to rise in Malaysia, public health laboratories ... -
Objectives for COVID-19 testing in school settings – first update
(2020-08-21)This document provides an overview of major aspects of testing, contact tracing, contact identification and contact follow-up in school settings within the EU/EEA countries and the United Kingdom (UK).