Group Testing for SARS-CoV-2: Forward to the Past?

Koen B Pouwels1, Laurence Roope1, Adrian Barnett2, David J. Hunter3, Terry Nolan4, Philip Clarke5
1Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
3Translational Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
4The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
5Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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