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It has led to shutdowns of many sectors across the country, including in-person learning in schools. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed the way we live. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Hilton Foundation for the study and reported serving as a scientific advisor to Payssurance and American Medical Association and receiving grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, Abbott Diagnostics, Health Care Services Corporation, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute outside the submitted work. Sood reported receiving funding from Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti City of Los Angeles, Rockefeller Foundation, and Conrad R. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: Dr. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting information files.įunding: This work was supported grants to the University of Southern California by the Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti City of Los Angeles Rockefeller Foundation and Conrad R. Received: FebruAccepted: MaPublished: April 5, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Sood et al. PLoS ONE 16(4):Įditor: Etsuro Ito, Waseda University: Waseda Daigaku, JAPAN (2021) Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Implications for screening in a school setting. With affordable and easy-to-use testing and a simple process, companies around the country can move forward and help their employees get back to work and life with greater confidence.Citation: Sood N, Shetgiri R, Rodriguez A, Jimenez D, Treminino S, Daflos A, et al. We are proud to have created a way for them to return to work with confidence, and to have multiple options to allow other businesses to reopen. Our employees are the heart of our company. Options like Abbott's BinaxNOW Self Test can allow employees the ability to do frequent testing before coming to work – providing peace of mind to themselves and potential customers that they may be interacting with, in addition to other measures in place. Other employers are turning to self-testing that their workers can do at home. Employees know their results in 15 minutes and, when they are negative, receive a digital pass through the NAVICA app, which is used to gain access to our facilities, like any other credential. The same Arizona State University survey of 1,339 employers found that 68% said they were testing at least some part of their workforce.Īt the core of our process is frequent testing with our reliable BinaxNOW rapid antigen tests that deliver results in minutes. The success of testing at work is catching on. Our process helps us prevent employees from unknowingly slipping through other screenings protocols.

And among those employees who have tested positive, 7 of 10 did not have any symptoms. Throughout this time, we experienced a positivity rate less than 1 percent.

Alongside other health safety protocols - including masking, social distancing, cleaning and handwashing - we've offered rapid tests to our employees at 40 sites since fall 2020. So, we developed a simple and robust workplace testing program to help identify infectious people and keep our workplaces healthy. Others are scientists and engineers designing new cardiac or neuromodulation technologies. Many are essential workers responsible for keeping lines open for products like our COVID-19 tests. A recent survey from Arizona State University with the support from the Rockefeller Foundation found a 58% increase in employee mental health concerns during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic.Īccess to COVID-19 testing can help businesses reassure employees as they return to work - even as vaccines roll-out.Ībbott has thousands of dedicated employees across the country. Helping bolster the confidence of workers as they return to work will be key. Now, companies big and small are putting plans in place to have their employees return to work with vaccines more widely available and schools returning to in-person learning. Parents and kids stepped up in 2020 as schools and workplaces went on when they went remote. We've all seen it: A parent on a Zoom call, their child virtually learning nearby.