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For-Profit COVID Testing Company Suggests National Guard Should Supplement Staff
January 3, 2022 ADI Staff Reporter
When inclement weather forced a New Year’s Eve event in Phoenix to move indoors, the CEO of an Arizona-based COVID-19 testing company took to social media to belittle event organizers and their “careless, super spreader events.”
In fact, Embry Health’s CEO Raymond Embry IV questioned why organizers of NYE Block Party and other social events are “not forced to mandate rapid point of event covid-19 testing.” He complained that such events would “crush testing infrastructure” and causing delays for those needing to be tested.
Aside from the obvious financial conflict of interest inherent in Embrey’s tweet, many who read his comments pushed back, noting that organizers of the NYE Block Party had advised guests in advance that proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test was required to attend the event once it was moved inside.
The organizers even provided complimentary rapid COVID-19 tests at the door, although it is unclear if the test kits were from Embry Health.
But Embry continued to criticize the fact there is no mandate forcing Arizonans to undergo COVID-19 testing in order to participate in certain segments of the economy.
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There is another solution, Embry suggested. He said he would be asking Gov. Doug Ducey to mobilize members of the Arizona National Guard to help Embry Health, a for-profit company that operates “the widest network of COVID-19 test locations in the state of Arizona,” according to the company website...
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