Blanket SARS-CoV-2 screening among those admitted to hospital for non-COVID-19 conditions not worthwhile back in 2020
A CITF-funded study, published in BMJ Open, found that universal COVID-19 screening among adults admitted to hospital over two waves in 2020 with a diagnosis unrelated to COVID-19 had a low diagnostic yield, meaning universal screening, at the time, would not have been justifiable as a blanket policy.