Oh that went out the window at the hospital where I work. They won't test you unless you're symptomatic, and if you've had close contact/exposure you continue to work if you are asymptomatic. Even though it's been shown that someone asymptomatic can still shed virus (though in theory not as much) they're hard-up for bodies.
Case in point: woman in my department has a husband who is COVID+. Occ Health wouldn't test her, told her to continue to work unless she showed symptoms.
The "guidelines" have changed since the Spring and the initial wave. I don't think it's necessarily due to more wisdom in dealing with COVID but instead practicality and needing warm bodies with stethoscopes. Kind of fvcked-up if you ask me.
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