{"id":128585,"date":"2021-08-25T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=128585"},"modified":"2021-08-26T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:51:43","slug":"a-surfeit-of-sero-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-surfeit-of-sero-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"A surfeit of\u00a0sero\u00a0surveys\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: <\/span><\/b>The Hindu\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Relevance:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>This article explains the advantages and disadvantages associated with Sero surveys<\/span><\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Sero Surveys are useful in detecting the prevalence of antibodies, frequent surveys are expensive and futile<\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sero surveillance ascertains the prevalence of past infectious disease in a population; In Covid cases, it helps to detect whether anti-bodies to SARS-CoV2 are present in a population or not.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The antibodies are like evidence in a crime scene, and the virus is like a criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: Explained: ICMR\u2019s fourth serosurvey and its findings<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Benefits of sero surveys:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. For public health authorities, sero surveys provide a variety of use at different phases of the pandemic for policy formulation, effective control of pandemic, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Independent sero surveillance data can expose the level of data suppression<\/strong>. So, the <\/span>media and epidemiologists use them to show the under-reporting of cases and deaths due to Covid-19.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Sero surveys<\/strong> can ascertain the details about community transmission. For instance, they can explain whether community transmission has taken place or not. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Sero surveys can explain how far or close <\/strong>the community to attain to herd immunity<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Drawbacks of the Sero survey:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Sero surveillance is expansive (costs around \u20b925lakh for a city of 5000 people) and not a good investment for a country still grappling with the pandemic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Frequent surveys can result in poor use of staff time, technology and stuff. <\/strong>Further, it will also divert the government attention from core activities (screening and testing).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Those surveys are no more useful than our COVID-19-appropriate behaviour and vaccinations<\/strong> to control the pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Source: The Hindu\u00a0 Relevance:\u00a0This article explains the advantages and disadvantages associated with Sero surveys Synopsis:\u00a0 Though Sero Surveys are useful in detecting the prevalence of antibodies, frequent surveys are expensive and futile Introduction: A sero surveillance ascertains the prevalence of past infectious disease in a population; In Covid cases, it helps to detect whether anti-bodies… Continue reading A surfeit of\u00a0sero\u00a0surveys\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[3005,212,8698,9303],"class_list":["post-128585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-covid-19-2","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-issues-related-with-health","tag-sero-surveys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704932831},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}