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In the background of the coronavirus Pandemic, Verily Life Sciences have revealed an application-based safety screening service for businesses and colleges. The healthy at work product will provide employees with COVID-19 diagnostic tests.
It also gives employers advice on the frequency of retesting of employees. These recommendations are based on local health information and test results.
According to an authentic spokesman, the program will screen symptoms on a daily basis through an application, either to test people for the virus or clear them back to work.
The decision whether to try out its workforce at once or start with a small number of employees is a responsibility of every participating company.
The screening of symptoms is not only used to determine who is to be tested, but, according to the speaker, it also is another way to monitor and slow the spread of the virus.
People can have COVID-19 — and infect others — before symptoms such as fever are shown. This means checking people for symptoms to find out whether a test is not a stupid way to avoid the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.
Safe at Work has several possibilities for testing sites: mobile testing sites or home testing kits. It truly uses real-time PCR test kits for nasal mid-turbinate swab, provided through Quest.
Employers can see the evaluation status of an employee. Verily says that they must decide whether to minimize spread. However, it is not possible to share the information with insurance companies.
And data obtained by Verily under the Safe at Work system "will never be added to the information stored by individuals in Google products without the express approval of individuals," said the spokesman.
The healthy work program does not require employees or enterprises to participate in Google accounts.
Verily — a Google sister corporation that is part of Alphabet's parent company — launched the COVID 19 screening platform in March, revealed unintendedly in a White House briefing by President Trump.
Google was implementing a testing program nationally, the president said, but it actually was and the program had not yet been implemented.
The testing program was restricted to the Bay Area when it was launched. However, the company says its research system COVID-19 has screened now in 13 countries more than 220,000 people.
