Acknowledgments: We thank all health care workers, Slovak armed forces, and countless volunteers who helped with the execution of the mass testing campaign. Further, we thank all participants who contributed their time to help curb the pandemic and particularly those who had to quarantine as a result of their or their household’s or contact’s test result.
Funding: This work was supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society 208812/Z/17/Z (to S.Fl.); Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship (to S.Fu., S.A., and K.S.); and Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme funded by the UK Government (DFID), the Wellcome Trust, and the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (K.V.-Z.). The following funding sources are acknowledged as providing funding for the working group authors: BBSRC LIDP BB/M009513/1 (to D.S.); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation INV-001754 (to M.Q.); INV-003174 (to K.P., M.J., and Y.L.); OPP1157270 (to K.A.); NTD Modelling Consortium OPP1184344 (to C.A.B.P. and G.F.M.); OPP1180644 (to S.R.P.); OPP1183986 (to E.S.N.); DFID/Wellcome Trust Epidemic Preparedness Coronavirus research program 221303/Z/20/Z: (to C.A.B.P.); EDCTP2 RIA2020EF-2983-CSIGN (to H.P.G.); ERC #757699 (to M.Q.); The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program—project EpiPose 101003688 (to K.P., M.J., P.K., R.C.B., W.J.E., and Y.L.); The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project “RECAP” managed through RCUK and ESRC ES/P010873/1 (to A.G., C.I.J., and T.J.); HDR UK MR/S003975/1 (to R.M.E.); MRC MR/N013638/1 (to N.R.W.); Nakajima Foundation (to A.E.); The National Institute for Health Research NIHR 16/136/46 (to B.J.Q.); 16/137/109 (to B.J.Q., F.Y.S., M.J., and Y.L.); Health Protection Research Unit for Immunisation NIHR200929 (to N.G.D.); Health Protection Research Unit for Modelling Methodology HPRU-2012-10096 (to T.J.); NIHR200908 (to R.M.E.); NIHR200929 (to F.G.S. and M.J.); PR-OD-1017-20002 (to A.R. and W.J.E.); The Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (to R.L.); RP\EA\180004 (to P.K.); UK DHSC/UK Aid/NIHR PR-OD-1017-20001 (to H.P.G.); UK MRC MC_PC_19065—Covid 19: Understanding the dynamics and drivers of the COVID-19 epidemic using real-time outbreak analytics (to A.G., N.G.D., R.M.E., S.C., T.J., W.J.E., and Y.L.); MR/P014658/1 (to G.M.K.); The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team funded by the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care (to T.J.); Wellcome Trust 206250/Z/17/Z (to A.J.K. and T.W.R.); 206471/Z/17/Z (to O.J.B.); 208812/Z/17/Z (to S.C.); 210758/Z/18/Z (to J.D.M., J.H., N.I.B., S.A., and S.R.M.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.