COVID-19: Strategies for Allocation of Test Kits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01740v1
• Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 19:02:59 GMT
• Title: COVID-19: Strategies for Allocation of Test Kits
• Authors: Arpita Biswas, Shruthi Bannur, Prateek Jain, Srujana Merugu
• Abstract summary: Current strategy for test-kit allocation is mostly rule-based, focusing on individuals having (a) symptoms for COVID-19, (b) travel history or (c) contact history with confirmed COVID-19 patients. It is important to allocate a separate budget of test-kits per day targeted towards preventing community spread and detecting new cases early on. We believe that these approaches will be useful to contain community spread and detect new cases early on.
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• Abstract: With the increasing spread of COVID-19, it is important to systematically test more and more people. The current strategy for test-kit allocation is mostly rule-based, focusing on individuals having (a) symptoms for COVID-19, (b) travel history or (c) contact history with confirmed COVID-19 patients. Such testing strategy may miss out on detecting asymptomatic individuals who got infected via community spread. Thus, it is important to allocate a separate budget of test-kits per day targeted towards preventing community spread and detecting new cases early on. In this report, we consider the problem of allocating test-kits and discuss some solution approaches. We believe that these approaches will be useful to contain community spread and detect new cases early on. Additionally, these approaches would help in collecting unbiased data which can then be used to improve the accuracy of machine learning models trained to predict COVID-19 infections.

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