{"id":7792,"date":"2025-01-03T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2025-01-06T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:46:35","slug":"modeling-tool-estimates-covid-19-testing-saved-1-4-million-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/modeling-tool-estimates-covid-19-testing-saved-1-4-million-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling tool estimates COVID-19 testing saved 1.4&nbsp;million lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how crucial testing is for disease preparedness and response, and new research from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and a team of collaborators underscores that principle.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the Jan.&nbsp;2 edition of The Lancet Public Health, the research included simulation and analysis that suggests public-private partnerships to develop, produce and distribute COVID-19 diagnostic tests saved an estimated 1.4&nbsp;million lives and prevented about 7&nbsp;million patient hospitalizations in the United States during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how crucial testing is for disease preparedness and response, and new research from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and a team of collaborators underscores that principle.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the Jan.&nbsp;2 edition of The Lancet Public Health, the research included simulation and analysis that suggests public-private partnerships to develop, produce and distribute COVID-19 diagnostic tests saved an estimated 1.4&nbsp;million lives and prevented about 7&nbsp;million patient hospitalizations in the United States during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/modeling-tool-estimates-covid-19-testing-saved-1-4-million-lives\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Modeling tool estimates COVID-19 testing saved 1.4&nbsp;million lives<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,97,22,8,14,51],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic-response","tag-rapid-tests","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}