Research and analysis

Serial testing to minimise false negatives, 16 June 2020

Paper prepared by academics on optimising COVID-19 testing.

• From: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
• Published: 17 July 2020

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Serial testing to minimise false negatives - 16 June 2020

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Paper on optimising the swab test regimen of contacts to minimise the risk of false negatives. It was considered at SAGE 18 June 2020.

It should be viewed in context: the paper was the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. The picture is developing rapidly and, as new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded and the author’s opinion or conclusion may since have developed.

This paper partly informed the ‘SPI-M-O: Consensus statement on COVID-19’, as published under SAGE 42 and should be read in that context. The SPI-M-O consensus view summarises the main insights across the available evidence and modelling at the time.

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 These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.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 17 July 2020