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  • Renato Millioni1,* and
  • Cinzia Mortarino2

Reviewer 1: Anonymous Reviewer 2: Sungmok Jung

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The review, titled ‘Test groups, not individuals: A review of the pooling 2 approaches for Sars-Cov-2 diagnosis’,  surveys  pooling schemes and techniques for SARS-CoV-2 diagnoisis.  The survey supports designing pooling  testing method for COVID-19 diagnosis.  The review is well-writtten. I recommend the review for publication after following minor revisions.

 

  1. The name of the virus shall be 'SARS-CoV-2', instead of 'Sars-CoV-2'. Please correct the name in the whole paper.
  2. Page 2 line 86: ‘a number of samples is’ should be ’ a number of samples are’.
  3. Page 6 line 155 (caption of Figure 5): ‘pools is regards’ should be ‘pools are regarded’.
  4. Page 10 line 295: ‘increase the by’ should be ‘increase by’.
  5. Page 10 line 297: pre-syntomatic?
  6. Page 10 line 299: ‘pooled (>100) sample’ -> ‘pooled (>100) samples’.
  7. Page 10 line 315: ‘Authors’->’authors’.
  8. Page 10 line 317: ‘due a’ ->’due to a’.
  9. Page 10 line 329: ‘pooled sample’->’pooled samples’.

Author Response

  1. The name of the virus shall be 'SARS-CoV-2', instead of 'Sars-CoV-2'. Please correct the name in the whole paper.
  2. Page 2 line 86: ‘a number of samples is’ should be ’ a number of samples are’.
  3. Page 6 line 155 (caption of Figure 5): ‘pools is regards’ should be ‘pools are regarded’.
  4. Page 10 line 295: ‘increase the by’ should be ‘increase by’.
  5. Page 10 line 297: pre-syntomatic?
  6. Page 10 line 299: ‘pooled (>100) sample’ -> ‘pooled (>100) samples’.
  7. Page 10 line 315: ‘Authors’->’authors’.
  8. Page 10 line 317: ‘due a’ ->’due to a’.
  9. Page 10 line 329: ‘pooled sample’->’pooled samples’.

All suggested corrections are now implemented as required. Thank you for your suggestions.

Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript provides very helpful insights into the pooling strategy for COVID-19 diagnosis and I would like to incline that the paper should be published as soon as possible for supporting the optimized COVID-19 pooling test. One minor comment from my side is that using capital letters for SARS would be better, as it is abbreviation. i.e., Sars-Cov-2 -> SARS-CoV-2.

Author Response

One minor comment from my side is that using capital letters for SARS would be better, as it is abbreviation. i.e., Sars-Cov-2 -> SARS-CoV-2.

Thank you for this suggestion. We corrected this throughout the paper.