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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Virus Is LESS Contagious If Your Boss REALLY Wants You Back At Your Desk"- by Tom Tomorrow
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"The Virus Is LESS Contagious If Your Boss REALLY Wants You Back At Your Desk"- by Tom Tomorrow (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2022
OP
Sometime I feel Science is being attacked by New Copernicus ...this one insisting earth is flat.
Alexander Of Assyria
Jan 2022
#2
Diamond_Dog
(32,536 posts)1. +1000
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)2. Sometime I feel Science is being attacked by New Copernicus ...this one insisting earth is flat.
Though the analogy fails cause its only the fascists.
IronLionZion
(45,884 posts)3. As long as things keep getting more expensive and harder to get
it's proof of the efficiency of free markets
Hiawatha Pete
(1,830 posts)5. +1000! n/t
Hiawatha Pete
(1,830 posts)4. K&R
dalton99a
(82,120 posts)6. Maker of Popular Covid Test Told Factory to Destroy Inventory
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/us/abbott-covid-tests.html
Maker of Popular Covid Test Told Factory to Destroy Inventory
One of the leading producers of rapid tests purged supplies and laid off workers as sales dwindled. Weeks later, the U.S. is facing a surge in infections with diminished capacity.
By Sheri Fink
Published Aug. 20, 2021 Updated Sept. 29, 2021
For weeks in June and July, workers at a Maine factory making one of Americas most popular rapid tests for Covid-19 were given a task that shocked them: take apart millions of the products they had worked so hard to create and stuff them into garbage bags.
Soon afterward, Andy Wilkinson, a site manager for Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturer, stood before rows of employees to announce layoffs. The company canceled contracts with suppliers and shuttered the only other plant making the test, in Illinois, dismissing a work force of 2,000. The numbers are going down, he told the workers of the demand for testing, saying it wasnt their fault. This is all about money.
As virus cases in the U.S. plummeted this spring, so did Abbotts Covid-testing sales. But now, amid a new surge in infections, steps the company took to eliminate stock and wind down manufacturing are proving untimely hobbling efforts to expand screening as the highly contagious Delta variant rages across the country.
Demand for the 15-minute antigen test, BinaxNOW, is soaring again as people return to schools and offices. Yet Abbott has reportedly told thousands of newly interested companies that it cannot equip their testing programs in the near future. CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens locations have been selling out of the at-home version, and Amazon shows shipping delays of up to three weeks. Abbott is scrambling to hire back hundreds of workers.
Maker of Popular Covid Test Told Factory to Destroy Inventory
One of the leading producers of rapid tests purged supplies and laid off workers as sales dwindled. Weeks later, the U.S. is facing a surge in infections with diminished capacity.
By Sheri Fink
Published Aug. 20, 2021 Updated Sept. 29, 2021
For weeks in June and July, workers at a Maine factory making one of Americas most popular rapid tests for Covid-19 were given a task that shocked them: take apart millions of the products they had worked so hard to create and stuff them into garbage bags.
Soon afterward, Andy Wilkinson, a site manager for Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturer, stood before rows of employees to announce layoffs. The company canceled contracts with suppliers and shuttered the only other plant making the test, in Illinois, dismissing a work force of 2,000. The numbers are going down, he told the workers of the demand for testing, saying it wasnt their fault. This is all about money.
As virus cases in the U.S. plummeted this spring, so did Abbotts Covid-testing sales. But now, amid a new surge in infections, steps the company took to eliminate stock and wind down manufacturing are proving untimely hobbling efforts to expand screening as the highly contagious Delta variant rages across the country.
Demand for the 15-minute antigen test, BinaxNOW, is soaring again as people return to schools and offices. Yet Abbott has reportedly told thousands of newly interested companies that it cannot equip their testing programs in the near future. CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens locations have been selling out of the at-home version, and Amazon shows shipping delays of up to three weeks. Abbott is scrambling to hire back hundreds of workers.
geardaddy
(24,989 posts)7. I'm glad I work at home!
They're trying to push us back to work, but have postponed it again.