Renascença // Coronavirus. It is Possible to Avoid More than 900 Hospitalizations with Triple testing

“The more tests are carried out, the easier it will be to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations.” This is the idea defended in the Renaissance by Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, one of the authors of the joint study by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) and CINTESIS, which advocates an urgent reinforcement of the installed capacity to test new cases of COVID-19.

Experts advocate carrying out three thousand tests per million inhabitants, three times the current capacity, which would prevent “900 hospitalizations and more than four million euros in hospitalization costs for the NHS”.

For the researcher, the big question is “how many people are not identified, either because they are asymptomatic or because the symptoms are mild”.

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