This week Fred and Dr. Nick jump into medical leave policy and the quagmire of challenges around finding a balance between creating an economically viable policy that works for employees, especially for those in lower socioeconomic groups and wage bands. The coming flu season is looking like it will be a bear which will add additional challenges to keeping business operations running.

Current medical leave policies that have a ‘bank’ of sick days that only gets deposits as you work and comes with limits that require a costly visit to a physician after 2 days will force some to come into work even when sick. Add on a test for COVID19 that in our own personal experiences ranges from zero all the way up to an astounding $350 and you have a recipe for further extensions of our current pandemic woes. We talk remote testing, something we have seen from the early days of testing during the pandemic and how this can be done whilst ensuring matching test and results to the correct individual.

Putting testing in the same category as vaccines – free at the point of service and perhaps layering on of technology to allow economic scaling would be a big help in moving everyone out of the pandemic doldrums

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