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07/07/2020

Employers Find Testing Employees More Trouble Than It’s Worth

It's expensive, time-consuming and creates HIPAA risks

From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard both their businesses and their employees.

Mass testing, a critical tool to stem the virus’s spread, would appear an obvious solution.

But dogged by issues of cost —diagnostic tests start at around $100 each — access, logistics and employee privacy, tests aren’t part of most back-to-work plans. As health-care companies that work with employers in this capacity are fond of saying, there’s no silver bullet.

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