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cord-336103-ufvq0ngl	Sharma, R.	Optimal sample pooling: an efficient tool against SARS-CoV-2	2020-07-04		.txt	text/plain	1563	125	64	2, 3 To identify such cases, the World Health Organization has stressed on multiple occasions the significant role of sample testing. While the current guidelines from ICMR state that up to 5 samples can be pooled, 20 multiple studies have confirmed that the pooling size of up to 8 does not harm the specificity and the sensitivity of the test. The determination of sample pool size for each lab using its prevalence rate would yield desired efficiency and be easy to implement. Strategizing to have a common sample pool size across the nation would not yield optimum results as the variance of prevalence rates is extremely high. Hence, sample pool size should be decided individually for a testing facility using the prevalence rates recorded by the same lab. This prevalence rate can then be looked up on the decision matrix table to arrive at the optimal sample pool size. Pooled Sample Testing for SARS-CoV-2	./cache/cord-336103-ufvq0ngl.txt	./txt/cord-336103-ufvq0ngl.txt