Table 1:

Daily human resource and laboratory capacity needs for active testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 across Canada

Outcome category	Status quo: current strategy^*	Strategy 1: systematically trace and test contacts (in addition to status quo)	At-risk populations
Outcome category	Status quo: current strategy^*		Strategy 2: test all employees of acute care hospitals	Strategy 3: test all CHW and employees and residents of long-term care facilities	Strategy 4: test all essential employees with major public or interpersonal contact	Strategy 5: test all children and staff of schools
Duration of human resource and capacity needed, d	Continuous	Continuous	28	28	28	42
No. of people sampled per day	41 751	47 353	27 146	35 620	91 732	143 146
Primary analysis
Human resource requirements^†
No. of health care professionals^‡	1140	1385	439	4977	11 550	20 956
No. of clerical staff^§	3261	3920	890	5484	12 837	22 950
No. of laboratory staff	721	818	494	613	1578	2462
No. of total personnel if including Strategy 1	–	–	7946	17 197	32 088	52 491
Laboratory capacity requirements
No. of laboratory tests run per day	41 751	47 353	27 146	35 620	91 732	143 146
No. of laboratory tests run per day including Strategy 1	–	–	74 499	82 972	139 085	190 499
Sensitivity analyses^¶
*Saliva sampling^*
Human resource requirements^†
Change in no. of health care professionals^‡	–	–	−194	−921	−2150	−4090
Change in no. of clerical staff^§	–	–	−65	−921	−2150	−4090
*Pooling samples 4:1*
Human resource requirements^†
Change in no. of clerical staff	+13	+19	+3	+3	+3	+2
Change in no. of laboratory staff	−473	−525	−322	−423	−1100	−1718
Laboratory capacity requirements
Change in no. of laboratory tests run per day	−29 880	−33 465	−19 972	−26 216	−67 878	−105 928
Change in no. of laboratory tests run per day including strategy 1	–	–	−53 437	−59 680	−101 342	−139 393
*All analyses together*^††
Human resource requirements^†
Change in no. of health care professionals^‡	–	–	−194	−921	−2150	−4090
Change in no. of clerical staff	+13	+19	−62	−918	−2147	−4088
Change in no. of laboratory staff	−473	−525	−322	−423	−1100	−1718
Laboratory capacity requirements
Change in no. of laboratory tests run per day	−29 880	−33 465	−19 972	−26 216	−67 878	−105 928
Change in no. of laboratory tests run per day including strategy 1	–	–	−53 437	−59 680	−101 342	−139 393

Note: CHW = community health care workers, SARS-CoV-2 = severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
↵* As of July 17, 2020.
↵† The numbers required are the total number of people (working a total of 8 h) in each work category needed per day to carry out all tasks contained in our 6-stage framework.
↵‡ For current strategy and strategy 1, 61%–68% of these health care professionals are nurses, 13%–14% are auxiliary (assistant) nurses, and 1%–2% are physicians. For strategies 2–5, 91%–98% of these health care professionals are nurses, 1% are auxiliary (assistant) nurses and 1%–3% are physicians.
↵§ This also includes a small proportion of data managers (1%–3%), with the high end of the range necessary when contact tracing is implemented.
↵¶ Categories included only if a change in human resource or laboratory capacity requirements occurred.
↵** Saliva sampling employed only for large-scale, prevalence-based testing programs in at-risk populations (strategies 2–5).
↵†† Combination of saliva and pooling samples.