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Rick Byers
Rick Byers @RickByers
Apr 17, 2020, 3:26 AM

The evidence is mounting that much of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is asymptotic or presymptomatic: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/14/coronavirus-boston-homeless-testing

Rick Byers
Rick Byers @RickByers
Apr 17, 2020, 3:28 AM

This has significant implications: we must be regularly screening all healthcare workers and other essential workers if we want to control the spread. Eg: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30917-X/fulltext

Rick Byers
Rick Byers @RickByers
Apr 17, 2020, 3:44 AM

Which in turn suggests that to be practical, we should leverage pooled-sample qPCR, eg: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.20039438v1

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