Open For Business In 2021

With 2020 coming to a close, businesses are looking ahead to 2021 and evaluating how they can stay open while keeping their employees and patrons safe. In an effort to resolve this seemingly open question, just this week, the National Institutes of Health ("NIH") unveiled an innovative online mechanism that may give businesses the tools they need to choose a COVID-19 testing strategy for the year ahead. This mechanism, developed by a branch of the NIH called the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering ("NIBIB"), will act as a COVID-19 Testing Impact Calculator (the "Calculator") and will show how different approaches to testing and other mitigation efforts (e.g., mask use, social distancing, and contact tracing) may curb the spread of COVID-19 within a particular organization.