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The Challenges: Office outbreaks and mandatory
quarantines have already been extremely costly for
companies while crippling or permanently closing
hundreds of thousands of businesses throughout the
country. Until now, businesses had no way of truly knowing
what was happening in their buildings with regards to the pandemic
until someone tested positive for COVID-19. And with an incubation
period of 2 to 14 days for symptoms to appear, a single new case can
turn into an outbreak before the infected person ever knows they
have the disease. What’s even more alarming though are the multiple
studies indicating that more than 50% of patients who tested positive
for coronavirus were asymptomatic, meaning they showed no
symptoms of sickness at all for the duration of their infection, but they
were still fully capable of infecting others.
These problems have made controlling the virus in the workplace
nearly impossible and unfortunately the current guidance from the
CDC is very limited for businesses leaving us all to wonder how we’re
ever going to get back to any type of normalcy. From social distancing
to mask mandates to sheltering in place, none of these
recommendations offer any real promise for a safe and controlled
work environment. Consequently, we’ve all been in a constant
reactive state defending ourselves from an invisible enemy by staying
away from each other since the
pandemic began. This reactive
state, as we’re all too well-
aware, has at best been
frustrating, scary, chaotic. At
worst, it’s been catastrophic
and even fatal for more than
240,000 Americans with 10.3
M cases nationwide as of this writing.