Many-Persons-To-1-Test-Kit Infectious Disease Screening—Abridged Version

Abstract COVID-19 has forced many cities and countries to restrict commerce and movement of people, causing unprecedented loss of economy. Protracted lockdown may become unavoidable as health authorities have no means to isolate all infected individuals because existing testing capacities are very small compared with entire populations.We propose here a new screening methodology that greatly expands the size of the screened cohort beyond given testing capacity. This is an abridged version of the full multiplier grid (MG) methodology paper.With expanded screening cohort size, entire highrise residential complex can be screened 20X faster, and the same test capacity can screen 20X as many residential complexes. The same methodology can be applied to factories, villages, towns, university campuses, office towers, cruise ships, etc. The exact multiplier varies between target populations and can be larger.