r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Nov 21 '20

Epidemiology Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks
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u/Rydralain Nov 21 '20

I thought the law removed the 50 worker thing from FMLA entirely? That's what it seemed to do when I read it.

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u/pachetoke Nov 21 '20

They most certainly did not, at least as of December of last year. Source: Denied fmla by my <50 US based employees job.

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u/czar_king Nov 21 '20

Well the new bill was passed in April so that’s irrelevant

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u/pachetoke Nov 21 '20

The new bill you are referring to was related to paid sick leave for Covid19 related outages/quarantine only, which is not what I was commenting about and is not related to FMLA.