id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-313316-l147b7jk Freudenthal, Bernard Misuse of SARS-CoV-2 testing in symptomatic health-care staff in the UK 2020-10-22 .txt text/plain 1110 72 57 An initiative to screen asymptomatic health-care workers for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was timely and logical, 1 and contrasted markedly with the UK Government's testing strategy stated. His opened-out presentation of a brain does not show the paired lateral ventricles and the foramen of Monro, as several authors erroneously down, and the way to do that is to get the amount of testing up". Overzealous redirection of self-isolating staff back to work before they had completed sufficient self-isolation to exclude infectivity was therefore likely to increase spread of the virus to other staff and to patients or care-receivers in a substantial number of cases, especially given the high prevalence and likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection among exposed health-care workers during the epidemic. 5 We believe a symptom-agnostic testing approach for SARS-CoV-2 among HCWs is an effective measure of reducing viral transmission. 1 We agree that use of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing among health-care workers (HCWs) solely to reduce absenteeism is inappro priate. ./cache/cord-313316-l147b7jk.txt ./txt/cord-313316-l147b7jk.txt