POLIS: a rapid and replicable screening tool to improve risk stratification of potential false-negative COVID-19 patients

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic at the time of this writing has infected 233, 151 people in the UK with 33 614 deaths.1 Current UK guidance for COVID-19 virus testing states that the preferred screening/testing technique is molecular diagnosis using a real-time RT-PCR (RdRp gene) assay.2 Initial COVID-19 testing likely underestimates the number of actual COVID-19 cases in hospitals as false-negative rates have been to found to be between...