Daily antigen testing to reduce disruption when schools return

Affiliations

¹ UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK. Electronic address: r.viner@ucl.ac.uk.
² National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Comment

Russell M Viner et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Oct 2;398(10307):1196-1197.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02092-4. Epub 2021 Sep 14.

¹ UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK. Electronic address: r.viner@ucl.ac.uk.
² National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Daily testing for contacts of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and attendance and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in English secondary schools and colleges: an open-label, cluster-randomised trial.
Young BC, Eyre DW, Kendrick S, White C, Smith S, Beveridge G, Nonnenmacher T, Ichofu F, Hillier J, Oakley S, Diamond I, Rourke E, Dawe F, Day I, Davies L, Staite P, Lacey A, McCrae J, Jones F, Kelly J, Bankiewicz U, Tunkel S, Ovens R, Chapman D, Bhalla V, Marks P, Hicks N, Fowler T, Hopkins S, Yardley L, Peto TEA. Young BC, et al. Lancet. 2021 Oct 2;398(10307):1217-1229. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01908-5. Epub 2021 Sep 14. Lancet. 2021. PMID: 34534517 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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