| Friday 26 April 2024 | |
| Events for day: Thursday 28 January 2021 |
| 11:00 - 12:00 Weekly Webinar False Negative Mitigation in Group Testing for COVID-19 Screening School BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES After lifting the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and opening businesses, screening is essential to prevent the spread of the virus. Group testing could be a promising candidate for screening to save time and resources. However, due to the high false-negative rate (FNR) of the RT-PCR diagnostic test, we should be cautious about using group testing because a group’s false-negative result identifies all the individuals in a group as uninfected. Repeating the test is the best solution to reduce the FNR, and repeats should be integrated with the group-testing method to increase the sensitivity of the test. The simplest way is to replicate the test ... |