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The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration 2017-2019 and the deputy medical director of its medical device center, give their thoughts on how to setup a sentinel surveillance system that would help tackle coronavirus and future epidemics. The idea is to track an outbreak in real time, with results sent to central labs so that outbreaks can be contained early and the surveillance operates to isolate affected areas for treatment and quarantine. High quality data from specific locations in real time and testing to isolate small pockets of infection, with rapid and reliable diagnostic tools are critical parts of this system.
The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration 2017-2019 and the deputy medical director of its medical device center, give their thoughts on how to setup a sentinel surveillance system that would help tackle coronavirus and future epidemics. The idea is to track an outbreak in real time, with results sent to central labs so that outbreaks can be contained early and the surveillance operates to isolate affected areas for treatment and quarantine. High quality data from specific locations in real time and testing to isolate small pockets of infection, with rapid and reliable diagnostic tools are critical parts of this system.
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