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Testing intensity has greatest influence on COVID-19 transmission – News-Medical.Net

Lacking vaccines, countries have relied on multiple non-pharmaceutical interventions to control COVID-19 transmission.

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Lacking vaccines, countries have relied on multiple non-pharmaceutical interventions to control COVID-19 transmission. Despite the urging of the World Health Organization (WHO) in March to “test, test, and test,” policy makers disagree on on how much testing is optimal. A new study, by Ravindra Prasan Rannan-Eliya and coauthors from the Institute for Health Policy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, uses data from multiple online sources to quantify testing impact on COVID-19 transmissibility in 173 countries…

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