How Clemson University mitigated COVID spread

New research from Clemson University in a medical journal indicates how surveillance-based informative testing mitigates the spread of COVID-19 on campus.  And that, according to Clemson, paves the way for other institutions for mass-scale testing.  SBIT was implemented during the first two weeks of Clemson’s fall semester.  According to the study, random surveillance tests to identify outbreaks in residence halls and with targeted follow-up testing were twice more likely to detect positive cases than random test models.  The research is considered to have been integral to the university’s ability to bring students back to campus last fall.  Toward the end of the semester, there was a precipitous drop in student cases—even though case counts increased in surrounding communities.