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Google’s Staff Get Pricey Fast Covid Tests While Contractors Wait
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Meanwhile, the contract workers still coming into offices have to wait longer for results.</p><p>The Alphabet Inc. company allows U.S. full-time employees and their dependents to request Covid-19 tests from <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/HLTH\">Cue Health Inc.</a>, which provide results at home within a few minutes, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg. Contract workers who must report in-person to Google’s offices receive PCR tests by BioIQ that they can prepare and mail into a lab, according to a document that the Alphabet Workers Union tweeted Tuesday.</p><p>Convenient access to high-quality Covid-19 testing has become a marker of social inequities in the U.S. Amid a surge of virus cases due to the spread of the omicron variant, lines for tests have grown long across the country, while supplies of at-home tests have winnowed and prices for them have ballooned on the secondary market. 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