Research and analysis

CMMID: Daily testing of contacts: adherence, number of tests, speed of tracing, and lateral-flow test sensitivity, 11 March 2021

Paper prepared by the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID).

• From: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
• Published: 20 January 2021

Documents

CMMID: Daily testing of contacts: adherence, number of tests, speed of tracing, and lateral-flow test sensitivity, 11 March 2021

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(20)30308-X/fulltext

Details

Paper from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) working group on daily testing and lateral flow devices. This paper was available for participants to read at SAGE 83 on 11 March 2021, but not considered or discussed in the meeting. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

Published 20 January 2021