SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in the Israeli Defense Force-Lessons Learned From Our rt-PCR Screening Policy.

Adili TsurArik FurerEva AvramovichErez KarpGilad TwigTarif BaderMiki AlmakiasNoam Fink

Published in: Military medicine (2021)

Screening asymptomatic army personnel in this setting with rt-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 is not warranted and leads to unnecessary false positive results. Efforts should be directed at identifying symptomatic patients.

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