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Ioannis Dimitriou, Johan van Leeuwaarden
The authors compare pool sizes for pooled testing when laboratories seek to reduce assay use or turnaround time. In a calibrated acute-care example, minimizing tests selects 16 samples per pool, while the model’s total-turnaround objective selects 4; this is not a measured hospital outcome. Their analysis shows busy-testing waiting can favor a cube-root prevalence scale, unlike the test-saving square-root rule.
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