Mass testing-An underexplored strategy for COVID-19 control

Mingwang Shen¹, Yanni Xiao², Guihua Zhuang¹, Yan Li^{3

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Affiliations

¹ China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an 710061, China.
² School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
³ Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁵ Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶ Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.

Mingwang Shen et al. Innovation (Camb). 2021.

. 2021 May 28;2(2):100114.

doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100114. Epub 2021 Apr 29.

Mingwang Shen¹, Yanni Xiao², Guihua Zhuang¹, Yan Li^{3

4}, Lei Zhang^{1

5

6

7}

¹ China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an 710061, China.
² School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
³ Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁵ Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶ Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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