Designing a multi-layered surveillance approach to detecting SARS-CoV-2: A modelling study

Yang Liu ORCID logo ; Wenfeng Gong ; Samuel Clifford ORCID logo ; Maria E Sundaram ; Mark Jit ; Stefan Flasche ORCID logo ; Petra Klepac ORCID logo ; (2020) Designing a multi-layered surveillance approach to detecting SARS-CoV-2: A modelling study. Wellcome Open Research, 5. p. 218. DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16256.1
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<ns3:p><ns3:bold>Background:</ns3:bold> Countries achieving control of COVID-19 after an initial outbreak will continue to face the risk of SARS-CoV-2 resurgence. This study explores surveillance strategies for COVID-19 containment based on polymerase chain reaction tests.</ns3:p><ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Methods:</ns3:bold> Using a dynamic SEIR-type model to simulate the initial dynamics of a COVID-19 introduction, we investigate COVID-19 surveillance strategies among healthcare workers, hospital patients, and community members. We estimate surveillance sensitivity as the probability of COVID-19 detection using a hypergeometric sampling process. We identify test allocation strategies that maximise the probability of COVID-19 detection across different testing capacities. We use Beijing, China as a case study.</ns3:p><ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Results:</ns3:bold> Surveillance subgroups are more sensitive in detecting COVID-19 transmission when they are defined by more COVID-19-specific symptoms. In this study, fever clinics have the highest surveillance sensitivity, followed by respiratory departments. With a daily testing rate of 0.07/1000 residents, via exclusively testing at fever clinic and respiratory departments, there would have been 598 [95% eCI: 35, 2154] and 1373 [95% eCI: 47, 5230] cases in the population by the time of first case detection, respectively. Outbreak detection can occur earlier by including non-syndromic subgroups, such as younger adults in the community, as more testing capacity becomes available.</ns3:p><ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Conclusions:</ns3:bold> A multi-layer approach that considers both the surveillance sensitivity and administrative constraints can help identify the optimal allocation of testing resources and thus inform COVID-19 surveillance strategies.</ns3:p>


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