DOI: 10.1515/mr-2021-0024
Mass screening is a key component to fight against SARS-CoV-2 and return to normalcy
Zhaomin Feng1
Yi Zhang1
Yang Pan1
Daitao Zhang1
Lei Zhang2
Quanyi Wang3
1.Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control,Beijing,China2.Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane,Australia3.Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control,Beijing 100013,China
摘要：The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavi-rus 2(SARS-CoV-2)had highly transmissible and patho-genic,which caused serious economic loss and hazard to public health.Different countries have developed strategies to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic that fit their epidemi-ological situations,capacities,and values.Mass screening combined with control measures rapidly reduced the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 infection.The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted the essential role of diagnostics capacity in the control of communicable dis-eases.Mass screening has been increasingly used to detect suspected COVID-19 cases and their close contacts,asymp-tomatic case,patients attending fever clinics,high-risk populations,employees,even all population to identify infectious individuals.Mass screening is a key component to fight against SARS-CoV-2 and return to normalcy.Here we describe the history of mass screening,define the scope of mass screening,describe its application scenarios,and discuss the impact and challenges of using this approach to control COVID-19.We conclude that through a comprehen-sion screening program and strong testing capabilities,mass screening could help us return to normalcy more quickly.
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论文发表日期：2022-04-28
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：16( 197-212 )
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