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Originally Posted by O.city
If you don't test, you're potentially quarantining people who don't need to be though.
If you automatically quarantine anyone who's had known contact for 14 days, you would likely end up doing it to alot where it's not necessary.
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You have to wait 10 days from exposure to test because of incubation time, or become symptomatic to know if the test is going to be accurate, that is already a 10 day quarantine. You then wait 2 days for results usually which makes it 12 days of a 14 day quarantine already.
Any test you do before the 10 day incubation time means nothing if its negative. If you are asymptomatic they will likely not test you for this reason.
On top of that it will tell you nothing about asymptomatic spread because the person will be quarantined the whole time and not out and about spreading anything regardless of whether they were positive or not.
We realized some time back that we could get employees back to work faster if they were symptomatic and tested positive than we could if they were a close contact because of their spouse for example.
That scenario totally sucks because you have to wait for the spouse to become asymptomatic for 5 days then you have to go 14 days after that if the person continues to be asymptomatic before they are released from quarantine.
We have had a few people miss close to a month because of these scenarios even though they were quarantined the whole time.