Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy

Lancet. 2020 May 2;395(10234):1420-1421. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30936-3. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Authors

Julian Peto¹, Nisreen A Alwan², Keith M Godfrey³, Rochelle A Burgess⁴, David J Hunter⁵, Elio Riboli⁶, Paul Romer⁷; 27 signatories

Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: julian.peto@lshtm.ac.uk.
² School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. Electronic address: n.a.alwan@soton.ac.uk.
³ MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; University Hospital Southampton, NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
⁴ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁶ School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁷ New York University, New York City, NY, USA.

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Antigens, Viral* / analysis
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
Contact Tracing
Coronavirus Infections* / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections* / prevention & control
Health Policy
Humans
Mass Screening
Pandemics* / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral* / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral* / prevention & control
Quarantine*
SARS-CoV-2
United Kingdom

Substances

Antigens, Viral

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