Pooled Adaptive PCR Testing

Written by aurelian-laic | Published 2020/12/19
Tech Story Tags: pcr-testing | sars-cov-2 | covid-19 | covid19 | coronavirus | healthcare | health | covid19-technology

TLDRThis article proposes adaptive pool testing which involves testing a combined sample from multiple people as a methodology to increase testing capacity for Sars-COv2 using PCR. Pool test involve that if a pool is detected positive, each sample from the pool will be tested separately. Also, this article proposes an optimization algorithm for the pool size-determine the optimum number of samples that can be combined into a single test in order to obtain the best results with minimum number of tests.via the TL;DR App

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