Unlocking the lockdown – a strategy for the end game

Prof Soo Khee Chee, Benjamin Sheares Professor of Academic Medicine and Prof Ooi Eng Eong, Deputy Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, both from Duke-NUS Medical School, discussed the need for a strategy that allows us to live with the virus while operating our economy and returning to some level of normalcy. They opined that mass screening using a self-administered saliva-based test would allow everyone to maintain a “health visa” that is up to date. 

• The Straits Times, 9 May 2020, Science, pB6