1.5 Testing

What do countries need to do to implement effective ‘find, test, trace, isolate and support’ systems?

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020

This article, published open-access in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, shows how a ‘Snakes and Ladders’ board game can be a useful framework for understanding the opportunities and pitfalls that countries face when operationalising a find, test, trace, isolate, support strategy.

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020

Care homes have become the focus of the COVID-19 debate across Europe.

June 4, 2020June 5, 2020

Dashboards from the World Health Organization (WHO), Johns Hopkins University, and Worldometer, among others, publish information on daily numbers and rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths. However, they rely on summary data supplied by countries (or, sometimes, a variety of sources) and the deaths ultimately counted as COVID-19 can differ substantially, complicating cross-country comparisons.

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020

In order to know when to lift or impose restrictions, governments need good data and the ability to interpret it.

April 16, 2020April 19, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have been advised by WHO to expand testing in order to detect COVID-19 cases early, ensure their isolation, trace and isolate their contacts, and determine the epidemiological situation as accurately as possible.

Cross-Country Analysis

What do countries need to do to implement effective ‘find, test, trace, isolate and support’ systems?

What measures have been taken to protect care homes during the COVID-19 crisis?

How comparable is COVID-19 mortality across countries?

How will governments know when to lift and impose restrictions?

How do COVID-19 testing criteria differ across countries?