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[quote=Anonymous]Worth a read if you are currently packing your kids things to send them to school.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/08/18/school-of-public-health-study-says-students-may-be-able-to-safely-return-to-campus/

Yale Daily News article is rather strong on the value of QUANTITY over QUALITY in testing. Basically schools like Notre Dame were destined to fail with a limited testing system of only symptomatic patients being allowed tests after they arrived (yes, everyone got one coming in, but that should have continued every week). Schools like the University of Illinois have set up a massive, twice a week saliva-based testing system (that they created in house and will test at the schools veterinary clinic laboratory). They might have a better shot: https://abc7chicago.com/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-coronavirus-test-covid-19-testing/6350622/

Yale Daily News:

"Paltiel explained that a 70 percent sensitive test — a test that catches when someone is infected with COVID-19 70 percent of the time — administered each day will catch 100 cases after about three to four days, whereas a 95 percent sensitive test that schools can only afford to administer once per week will take nearly twice as long to catch the cases...

Above all, the researchers found that universities could not prevent an outbreak with symptom-based testing alone; they must also screen asymptomatic students. Paltiel likened the approach of testing only students exhibiting symptoms to “bringing a condom to a baby shower.” In the study’s computer simulation relying only on symptom-based testing, by the close of the 80-day semester, the cohort had been overrun with 4970 total infections out of a population of 5000 students. By contrast, screening asymptomatic students every two days resulted in 243 cumulative infections."[/quote]

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