Learning from LMICs: best practices for leveraging sentinel surveillance systems to track the US COVID-19 pandemic
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Root, Heather
- Affiliation: School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
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Boyce, Ross
- Affiliation: School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
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Robinson, Whitney R.
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
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- FRAMING How is the USA like a low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)? With limited treatment options, no vaccine and a chronically underfunded public health infrastructure, the USA is confronting the COVID-19 pandemic hampered by adversities typically faced by LMICs. In particular, obtaining reliable and timely surveillance data to inform public health policy has been impeded by persistent shortages of testing supplies and inequitable access to testing. SARS-CoV-2 testing in March and April 2020 likely identified only 2%–17% of US infections. 1
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- 2020
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- Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
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- BMJ global health
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- 5
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- English
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