Increasing Lab Capacity for Covid-19 Viral Testing

Francesco Flaviano Russo ()
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Francesco Flaviano Russo: Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: I study how to increase the capacity to test for Covid-19 with the two-swabs group testing strategy. It consists in bunching first swabs in groups and processing the second swabs individually only in case the group result is positive. Using a simulation, I derive multipliers of the lab capacity in worse case scenario that indicate how many more tests a lab can be sure to perform each day. The results show that the gains can be substantial even in case the actual fraction of positive tests is bigger than the expected fraction used to set the optimal group size.

Keywords: Group; Test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E1 H12 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09-10
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