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UC Davis Health leaders: Smart testing, not mass testing, the best path out of the COVID-19 pandemic

Testing everyone in all locations every day for SARS-CoV-2 is impractical, if not impossible.

Instead, administering “accurate, complete and rapid” tests to strictly defined groups is the best path forward through the COVID-19 pandemic, write David Lubarsky, vice chancellor of human health sciences and UC Davis Health CEO; and Brad Pollock, chair of the department of public health sciences and associate dean of public health sciences at UC Davis School of Medicine.

Read their rationale for this more thoughtful, targeted approach in this LinkedIn piece published May 29.

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