COVID-19 Testing Strategy Simulator

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Your population

Population size

People initially immune

People initially
infected

% of people who will comply with isolation

Your strategy

Will you be doing testing?

No Yes

Tracking Daily Symptoms?

No Yes

How many days will you be testing?

How often will you need testing?

1 (daily)
7 (weekly)
14 (every 2 weeks)

What is the size of your testing pool?

Your test

Cost per test

Sensitivity (%)

Cost per confirmatory test

Specificity (%)

Type of test

Testing processing time

Disease parameters

Basic reproduction number (R₀)

Percent of symptomatic cases caught by symptom tracking

Percent of cases which are asymptomatic

Average number of infectious days (absent testing)

$5.24 $1.17

Cost per person per day
$785,288 $175,000

Total cost for 100 days
0 112

Unnecessary quarantine
335

Infections experienced
989

Infections prevented
0

Infections missed by testing/tracking
73.61%

Reduction in infections compared to no testing

Community prevalence

These plots show the number of infectious people in the population for the duration of the testing period. The jagged nature corresponds to the removal of infectious individuals after they receive a positive test (if they comply with isolation).

Low prevalence
Medium prevalence
High prevalence