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Table 1 User inputs and defaults

From: covidscreen: a web app and R Package for assessing asymptomatic COVID-19 testing strategies

Organization

Input

Default

Organization Size

1000 people

Vaccinated Testing Frequency

0a days

Unvaccinated Testing Frequency

7 days

% Organization Vaccinated

50%

Community

Input

Default

Daily Cases per 100k

250 new cases

% Community Vaccinated

50%

Advanced

Group

Input

Default

V

Vaccine Efficacy

30%

T

Test Sensitivity

85%

T

Test Specificity

100%

T

% Symptomatic Tested

100%

S

Symptomatic Period

5 days

S

Pre-symptomatic Period

5 days

S

% Symptomatic: Unvaccinated Cases

50%

S

% Symptomatic: Vaccinated Cases

15%

S

% Symptomatic: Non-Cases

2%

  1. Advanced parameters are split into groups for vaccination (V), testing (T), and symptoms (S), and are intended to need minimal user input. Organization and community parameters are intended to be set by users; the defaults are set to values that provide illustrative outcome plots to assist user comprehension. Note: a 0 indicates no screening