Is "no test is better than a bad test"? Impact of diagnostic uncertainty in mass testing on the spread of COVID-19

Testing is viewed as a critical aspect of any strategy to tackle epidemics. Much of the dialogue around testing has concentrated on how countries can scale up capacity, but the uncertainty in testing has not received nearly as much attention beyond asking if a test is accurate enough to be used. Eve...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2020-10, Vol.15 (10), p.e0240775
Hauptverfasser: Gray, Nicholas, Calleja, Dominic, Wimbush, Alexander, Miralles-Dolz, Enrique, Gray, Ander, De Angelis, Marco, Derrer-Merk, Elfriede, Oparaji, Bright Uchenna, Stepanov, Vladimir, Clearkin, Louis, Ferson, Scott
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