Logistics of Aggressive Community Screening for Coronavirus 2019
Edward H. Kaplan, Howard P. Forman
Abstract
Public health and medical experts have clamored for increased coronavirus testing to control the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, 1 but how to implement such testing has not been carefully described. We detail a plan for aggressive community screening with the goal of controlling, if not eradicating, local severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. For at least 2 months, access to reagents, swabs, and tests have been a bottleneck. We believe this
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Isolation (microbiology)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCoronavirusSkilled Nursing FacilityVirologyMedicinePatient isolationMedical emergencyEmergency medicineBiologyInternal medicineOutbreakMicrobiologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)DiseaseCOVID-19 Impact on ReproductionSARS-CoV-2 detection and testingCOVID-19 epidemiological studies