https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/07/will-coronavirus-tests-for-all-health-care-workers-be-a-must-to-reassure-patients-its-safe-to-go-to-the-doctor-again/

Thousands of Stanford Health Care employees, from billing clerks to surgeons, have been pouring into clinics in the past few weeks to have swabs shoved up their noses — all in the name of reassuring patients that it’s safe to seek care again at their hospitals and clinics.

The massive effort by one of the Bay Area’s behemoths of health care to test all 14,000 of its employees for the coronavirus is generating a debate among medical providers desperately scrambling to bring back patients scared off by the deadly disease: Will testing an entire workforce soon be a must to keep patients safe? Or is it merely a marketing ploy for deep-pocketed institutions to win back trust while smaller medical practices struggle to keep up?