Disease Bundling or Specimen Bundling? Cost- and Capacity-Efficient Strategies for Multidisease Testing with Genetic Assays

The authors are grateful to the department editor Prof. Özlem Ergün, the associate editor, and two referees for providing suggestions and comments on this manuscript, which led to significant improvements in the analysis, the insights gained, and the presentation. The authors also thank the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System for providing data and the Bureau of Clinical Laboratories at the Alabama Department of Public Health for insights on respiratory disease screening. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.