Improvement of Sensitivity of Pooling Strategies for COVID-19

Figure 5

Comparison of pooling strategies, individual testing method, the grid method (96-well), and the triple grid method, across countries. Across 52 countries with available data of cases and tests for COVID-19, the estimated numbers of tests and missed cases under a given condition that (FNR 5% and FPR 0.1% for individual tests, FNR 10% and FPR 0.1% for pool tests) are provided. Data of cases and tests for COVID-19 are collected from Our World in Data [32] (to the date 06/30/2020). The data in this table are sorted according to the value of the infection level in a nondecreasing ordering. Colored values are the best among the three considered methods.