TY  - INPR
A1  - Lehrach, Hans
A1  - Curtis, Jon
A1  - Lange, Bodo
A1  - Ogilvie, Lesley A.
A1  - Gauss, Richard
A1  - Steininger, Christoph
A1  - Scholz, Erhard
A1  - Kreck, Matthias
T1  - Proposal of a population wide genome-based testing for Covid-19
T2  - Scientific Reports
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/73620
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-736206
SN  - 2045-2322
VL  - 12
IS  - 5618
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  -