Proposal of a population wide genome-based testing for Covid-19
- Our lives (and deaths) have by now been dominated for two years by COVID-19, a pandemic that has caused hundreds of millions of disease cases, millions of deaths, trillions in economic costs, and major restrictions on our freedom. Here we suggest a novel tool for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. The key element is a method for a population-scale PCR-based testing, applied on a systematic and repeated basis. For this we have developed a low cost, highly sensitive virus-genome-based test. Using Germany as an example, we demonstrate by using a mathematical model, how useful this strategy could have been in controlling the pandemic. We show using real-world examples how this might be implemented on a mass scale and discuss the feasibility of this approach.
| Author: | Hans LehrachORCiDGND, Jon CurtisORCiD, Bodo Lange, Lesley A. OgilvieORCiDGND, Richard GaussGND, Christoph SteiningerORCiDGND, Erhard ScholzORCiDGND, Matthias KreckGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-736206 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08934-2 |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Parent Title (English): | Scientific Reports |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Document Type: | Preprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/04/04 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/04/04 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/08/02 |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 5618 |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 51064600X |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
