Mass testing—An underexplored strategy for COVID-19 control

Abstract

Mingwang Shen,1 Yanni Xiao,2 Guihua Zhuang,1 Yan Li,3,4,* and Lei Zhang1,5,6,7,* 1China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an 710061, China 2School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 3Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 4Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA 5Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 6Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 7Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China *Correspondence: [email protected] (L.Z.); [email protected] (Y.L.) Received: February 7, 2021; Accepted: April 27, 2021; Published Online: April 28, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100114 a 2021 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Citation: Shen M., Xiao Y., Zhuang G., Li Y., and Zhang L. (2021). Mass testing—An underexplored strategy for COVID-19 control. The Innovation 2(2), 100114.