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Originally Posted by dirk digler
You don't have wait 10 days I think it is more like 5 days but I get your overall point. Though if the health department contacts you more than likely already half way through that time frame or longer due to testing lags and contract tracing.
That is why we need a testing breakthrough like home testing.
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I guess I'll add one more post.
This is an actual scenario that happened as best I can remember, it was back in early June I think.
Employee's spouse is identified as a close contact so they and their wife and child end up in quarantine.
10 days into quarantine wife develops symptoms, husband is still asymptomatic. Wife tests positive.
Husband has to wait until wife is symptom free for 5 days and then restart 14 day quarantine required by health department. Sometime during that quarantine the kid gets a fever and tests positive.
I cant remember how many days after that we were able to get the employee a test at Occumed even though he was asymptomatic (we are an essential business so we were able to get it done by request) but he tested negative and was never symptomatic. Don't know if he had already had it or was just immune but he was off a long time and we were trying to figure out how to get through it as fast as possible as was he since his quarantine pay had run out weeks prior. (we pay 2 weeks automatically if its an exposure from outside work, no limit if its at work)