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Learning from LMICs: best practices for leveraging sentinel surveillance systems to track the US COVID-19 pandemic

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: 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

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/f67k-fr39

Authors: Root, Heather, Robinson, Whitney R., Boyce, Ross

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill