Shifting Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing Policy and Research to Include the Full Translation Pipeline

Joseph A Catania; Jeffrey Martin; M Margaret Dolcini; E Roberto Orellana; Jeffrey Henne

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa649

Shifting Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing Policy and Research to Include the Full Translation Pipeline

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Jan 5;8(2):ofaa649. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa649. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Joseph A Catania¹, Jeffrey Martin², M Margaret Dolcini¹, E Roberto Orellana³, Jeffrey Henne⁴

Affiliations

¹ Oregon State University Hallie E. Ford Center and Health Promotion and Health Behavior Program, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
² University of California San Francisco, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Portland State University, School of Social Work and School of Public Health, Portland, Oregon, USA.
⁴ The Henne Group, San Francisco, California, USA.

Abstract

The current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 testing policy and practice limits testing as a prevention tool. Radical shifts are required to increase the scale of rapid testing strategies and improve dissemination and implementation of venue-based and self-testing approaches. Attention to the full translation pipeline is required to reach high-risk segments of the population.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; dissemination; reach; testing; translation.

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