Importance of COVID-19 Testing and Screening

It’s crucial to help treat, isolate or hospitalize people who are infected. Testing also is important in the bigger public health picture on mitigation efforts, helping investigators characterize the prevalence, spread and contagiousness of the disease.

The lockdown is a way to implement state-enforced social distancing. The keyword in the ongoing corona episode is social distancing. The virus spread through person-to-person contact, and the only way to limit its spread is to identify the people who got affected. With proper screening and lockdown of the affected person, the virus can be eradicated within 14 days. Below are a list if links which highlight the importance of COVID testing and screening. Please visit this page for regular updates.

Nation Institute of Aging

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/why-covid-19-testing-key-getting-back-normal#:~:text=Testing%20can%20help%20people%20determine,back%20to%20work%20and%20school.

NCBI

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7253998/

American Heart Association

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/04/02/covid-19-science-why-testing-is-so-important

Hologic

https://www.hologic.com/COVIDtest

Infectious Diseases Hub

https://www.id-hub.com/2020/04/02/the-importance-of-diagnostic-testing-for-covid-19/

Aftermath

https://www.aftermath.com/blog/employee-screening

Cochrane

https://www.cochrane.org/CD013718/PUBHLTH_how-effective-screening-covid-19

Health Management

https://healthmanagement.org/c/hospital/issuearticle/covid-19-pandemic-the-importance-of-testing-and-social-distancing

Clear wave

https://www.clearwaveinc.com/blog/the-importance-of-screening-patients-during-covid-19/

Tampa bay

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/05/11/why-covid-19-testing-is-important-column/

Modjoul

https://www.modjoul.com/blog/the-importance-of-symptom-screening

World Health Organization

https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/en/covidwho-471658

Seattle Children’s Hospital

https://providernews.seattlechildrens.org/special-update-reminder-about-the-importance-of-pre-operative-covid-19-screening/

Premise Health

https://www.premisehealth.com/blog/covid-19-screening-and-testing-best-practices/

Health affairs

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200611.868893/full/

Sanction scanner

https://sanctionscanner.com/blog/the-importance-of-adverse-media-screening-in-covid-19-288

Office Space

https://www.officespacesoftware.com/blog/the-benefits-of-health-screenings-in-the-workplace

Prevention premium

https://www.prevention.com/health/a33770806/preventative-care-covid-19/

New York times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/coronavirus-antibody-tests.html

Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-06/coronavirus-testing-is-the-key-to-countering-outbreak-of-covid-19

The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/rapid-screening-tests-that-prioritize-speed-over-accuracy-could-be-key-to-ending-the-coronavirus-pandemic-143882

Vox EU

https://voxeu.org/article/effectiveness-age-specific-policies-and-testing-covid-19

Centre for Evidence based Medicine

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-tests-could-potentially-be-used-for-the-screening-diagnosis-and-monitoring-of-covid-19-and-what-are-their-advantages-and-disadvantages/

Mayo clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/expert-answers/covid-antibody-tests/faq-20484429

OECD

https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/testing-for-covid-19-a-way-to-lift-confinement-restrictions-89756248/

World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/to-test-or-not-to-test-2-experts-explain-covid-19-testing/

Nebraska Medicine

https://www.nebraskamed.com/patients/covid19/screening

NatLaw review

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/part-five-covid-19-roadmap-series-ensuring-safe-workplace-covid-19-screening-and

L&E Global

https://knowledge.leglobal.org/back-to-work/country/universal-best-practices-for-a-safe-return/covid-19-temperature-monitoring-and-workplace-screening/

Health Focused

https://www.augustahealth.com/health-focused/the-difference-between-covid-19-screening-and-testing

Here are a few links to various papers that were published on the subject of COVID-19 Testing to back up the importance of COVID-19 Testing as well as COVID-19 Screening.

Covid Related Publications

https://publons.com/publon/covid-19/?sort_by=date

Clinical testing of Covid

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(20)30729-6/fulltext

Laboratory diagnosis of Covid

https://jcm.asm.org/content/58/6/e00512-20

Clinical testing for covid

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674920307296

Diagnostic test for Sars-Cov-2

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/diagnostic-testing-for-sars-cov-2

Covid-19 for Laboratories

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/publications.html