Mass testing—An underexplored strategy for COVID-19 control

作     者：Mingwang Shen Yanni Xiao Guihua Zhuang Yan Li Lei Zhang 

作者机构：China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious DiseasesSchool of Public HealthXi’an Jiaotong University Health Science CenterXi’an 710061China School of Mathematics and StatisticsXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’an 710049China Department of Population Health Science and PolicyIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNY 10029USA Department of ObstetricsGynecologyand Reproductive ScienceIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNY 10029USA Melbourne Sexual Health CentreAlfred HealthMelbourneVICAustralia Central Clinical SchoolFaculty of MedicineNursing and Health SciencesMonash UniversityMelbourneVICAustralia Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsCollege of Public HealthZhengzhou UniversityZhengzhou 450001China 

出 版 物：《The Innovation》 (创新（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第2卷第2期

页      面：137-138页

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学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

基　　金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11801435 to M.S.,8191101420 to L.Z.,11631012 to Y.X.) the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2018M631134,2020T130095ZX) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(xjh012019055,xzy032020026) the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province(2019JQ-187) the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation Outstanding Young Scholars Funding(3111500001to L.Z.) Xi’an Jiaotong University Basic Research and Profession Grant(xtr022019003 and xzy032020032 to L.Z.),and Xi’an Jiaotong University Young Talent Support Grant(YX6J004 to L.Z.) Xi’an Special Science and Technology Projects on Prevention and Treatment of Novel Coronavirus Penumonia Emergency(20200005YX005) Science Foundation for COVID-19 of Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center and Qinnong Bank(2008124) Zhejiang University special scientific research fund for COVID-19 prevention and control(2020XGZX056) 

主　　题：testing strategy Wuhan 

摘      要：Mass testing is an intervention strategy for COVID-19 control in the general population regardless of the presentation of *** involves collecting nasal or pharyngeal swabs for DNA testing,often using the polymerase chain reaction *** that have used mass testing consider it to be a viable strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic as the strategy can potentially identify and isolate asymptomatic cases in the early stages of infection and reduce the risk of virus *** the reopening of Wuhan,China,in early April 2020,China has conducted mass testings in three megacities with populations of over 10 million,including Beijing and Qingdao1 at the beginning of their local outbreaks,and Wuhan immediately after the reopening.