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  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health
  • Infectious Disease Surveillance

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  • Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 has focused on individual health management, with less attention on surveillance strategies.
  • Concerns exist regarding testing capacity, yet different goals necessitate distinct testing numbers and approaches.
  • Effective disease surveillance requires careful study design and randomization for meaningful insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the necessary testing volumes for public health surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.
  • To differentiate testing needs for acute infection versus seroprevalence studies.
  • To inform strategies for national and local disease surveillance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized standard statistical methods to calculate required testing volumes.
  • Incorporated test analytical performance, disease prevalence, desired precision, and population size into calculations.
  • Developed testing volume requirements based on surveillance objectives.

Main Results:

  • Public health surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 requires significantly fewer tests than widespread individual testing.
  • Estimated testing volumes for surveillance range in the thousands for a given population, not millions.
  • Individual health management testing is insufficient for meeting public health surveillance needs.

Conclusions:

  • Surveillance testing volumes are manageable within existing or projected clinical laboratory capacity.
  • Strategic and randomized testing is essential for reliable public health surveillance data.
  • Public health surveillance testing requires distinct strategies and volumes compared to diagnostic testing.