To Get Back to Work, Companies Seek Coronavirus Tests for Workers

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Testing workers could prevent the coronavirus’s spread and boost confidence about coming back to work, but it’s no easy undertaking

Companies from Amazon.com Inc. to General Motors Co. are exploring ways to test their employees for Covid-19 before they come in to work.

Regular tests for workers could keep exposure to sick employees to a minimum and boost employees’ confidence about coming back to work, corporate medical advisers and human-resources executives say. Yet companies face hurdles in rapidly building testing capacity. For one, tests remain tough to obtain in large quantities, those people say, and the practice raises potential issues of privacy...

 

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No worries. Just an average flu like bug. Stop the hysteria

so you get tested at 9am, and test negative doesnt mean you cant get infected at dunkin donuts at 10AM

'Prevent' HAHAHA... BTW, how may lives have been saved up to now by the states/ federal mitigation mandates? We are fed daily counts of cases and deaths. Economic costs are readily calculated but no tally of lives saved. The benefit is just to be blindly presumed?

We can’t rely on having antibodies as a salve to prevent transmission. We need to reorganize our work & social gathering points with an interim, bolstered health & safety protocols. All of us will need to be wearing 😷 til vaccinated.

If only there were tests. This Administration did a major fail. Just a little more than 1 percent of our population has been tested. VP realDonaldTrump PressSec GOP

Can it be a rectal exam?

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