covidscreen

covidscreen evaluates asymptomatic COVID-19 testing strategies and quantifies infection risk and intervention impact within organizations.

Key Features:

• Risk Assessment and Visualization: Estimates the expected number of active COVID-19 infections among employees, primarily those acquired from the community, and provides graphical representations of these estimates.
• Intervention Impact Analysis: Calculates absolute and relative risk reductions for interventions compared to baseline scenarios.
• Testing Strategy Evaluation: Assesses the effectiveness and value of testing among vaccinated and unvaccinated employees.
• Customizable Risk Profiling: Profiles risk across a range of input values and adjustable assumptions to evaluate scenario-specific outcomes.
• Simulation and Real-World Application: Demonstrates performance using simulations and real-world examples, including an employee testing program at a pediatric oncology specialty hospital.

Scientific Applications:

• Organizational decision support: Supports organizational leaders in deciding whether and how to implement asymptomatic COVID-19 screening as part of risk-mitigation strategies.
• Integrated risk estimation: Integrates internal organizational data with community infection rates to estimate infection risk under different scenarios.
• Public health evaluation and research: Enables public health officials and researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of asymptomatic testing within broader pandemic response efforts.

Methodology:

Employs quantitative modeling and simulations that leverage internal organizational data and external community infection metrics to estimate infection prevalence and intervention impact.