Executive summary: It's wrong not to test: The case for universal, frequent rapid COVID-19 testing

Maureen Johnson-León^{1

2}, Arthur L Caplan³, Louise Kenny⁴, Iain Buchan⁴, Leah Fesi⁵, Phoebe Olhava⁶, Desmond Nsobila Alugnoa⁷, Mara G Aspinall^{8

9}, Emily Costanza¹⁰, Brianna Desharnais¹⁰, Corinne Price¹¹, Jon Frankle¹¹, Jonas Binding¹², Rapid Tests Working Group^{11

12}, Cherie Lynn Ramirez^{10

13

14}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2415 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
² Pandemic Modeling Group for Rural Response, Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
³ Department of Population Health, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, Seventh Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA.
⁴ Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, 765 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 7ZX, United Kingdom.
⁵ Education Plus Health, 100W. Oxford Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiology, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 Cambridge Street, Brighton, MA 02135, USA.
⁷ Green Africa Youth Organisation, F393/4, Osu- Accra, Ghana.
⁸ Biomedical Diagnostics Program, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, 550N 3rd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA.
⁹ Health Catalysts Group, Tucson, AZ, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry and Physics, College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Simmons University, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹¹ Rapid Tests, USA.
¹² RapidTestsDE, Germany.
¹³ Global Access in Action, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
¹⁴ Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor WEST, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

PMID: 33644720
PMCID: PMC7894218
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100759

Executive summary: It's wrong not to test: The case for universal, frequent rapid COVID-19 testing

Maureen Johnson-León et al. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar:33:100759.

doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100759. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2415 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
² Pandemic Modeling Group for Rural Response, Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
³ Department of Population Health, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, 227 East 30th Street, Seventh Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA.
⁴ Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, 765 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 7ZX, United Kingdom.
⁵ Education Plus Health, 100W. Oxford Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiology, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 Cambridge Street, Brighton, MA 02135, USA.
⁷ Green Africa Youth Organisation, F393/4, Osu- Accra, Ghana.
⁸ Biomedical Diagnostics Program, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, 550N 3rd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA.
⁹ Health Catalysts Group, Tucson, AZ, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry and Physics, College of Natural, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Simmons University, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹¹ Rapid Tests, USA.
¹² RapidTestsDE, Germany.
¹³ Global Access in Action, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
¹⁴ Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor WEST, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

PMID: 33644720
PMCID: PMC7894218
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100759

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have any manifest conflict of interest. Dr. Buchan reports personal fees and other from his service as Chief Data Scientist Advisor to AstraZeneca and a grant from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), all outside the submitted work. Ms. Aspinall reports that she is compensated for her service on the Boards of Directors of both Orasure and Abcam as well as for serving as an Advisor to Cepheid. Dr. Binding reports that he works for Robert Bosch GmbH. There is a separate division within the company producing and selling rapid PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 ("Vivalytics"). He declares that he has no work ties with that team.

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