A Data-Driven Rationale for High-Throughput SARS-CoV-2 Mass Screening Programs

Abstract

We now recognize that a greatly expanded capacity for mass screening will be essential to managing life and economic activity in an ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. We also know that identifying asymptomatic people with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection requires frequent testing and results that are available quickly enough to act. 1 Rapid antigen