Question: Does everyone in my home need to be tested for the coronavirus?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested
section_headers: Care home residents and workers (England only)
section_content: If a care home suspects a resident has coronavirus symptoms
You should contact your local Health Protection Team
(HPT) if:

you suspect your care home has a new coronavirus outbreak
it has been 28 days or longer since your last case and you have new cases

Your HPT will provide advice and arrange the first tests.
For testing in other situations, you should apply for testing kits following
the instructions below.
How to test care home residents and workers
You can apply for coronavirus testing kits to test the residents and staff of
your care home. You can apply whether or not any of your residents or staff
have coronavirus symptoms.
This testing is currently only available in England.
At the moment, you can only get tests if your care home looks after older
people or people with dementia.
Apply for coronavirus tests for a care home
Workers with symptoms
Care home workers with symptoms should be self-isolating and can access
testing through the self-referral or employer referral portals, above.
See a visual guide to adult social care
testing
(PDF, 68.4KB, 1 page).
Information about testing kits
There are 2 types of test kits delivered to care homes:

Randox test kits
all other types, known as Kingfisher test kits

The test kits look similar and test for whether someone currently has
coronavirus in the same way. You will be told which test kits you will be
using when you receive confirmation of your delivery. All of these kits are
throat and nose swab tests and will tell a person whether they had coronavirus
at the time the test took place. They cannot tell a person if they have had
coronavirus in the past.
Watch a video on how to administer nasal and throat swabs for residents:
Coronavirus test tutorial for care homes with Dr Sarah
Jarvis
Carers and nurses who will be swabbing residents in care homes should complete
the online care home swabbing competency assessment before carrying out
swabbing.
Individuals can register at
www.genqa.org/carehomes or care home
managers can create an organisational account by contacting
info@genqa.org.
*[PDF]: Portable Document Format

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Context on the answer is for a home care setting such as old age home or the like.
This answer is acceptable because it does reference when people need to get tested, and how to acquire the tests to test them. It is not excellent though because it includes a lot of different information that can be confusing.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Acceptable

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Guidance for households with grandparents, parents and children living together where someone is at increased risk or has symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection
section_headers: Will my household be tested if we think we have coronavirus symptoms?
section_content: No, testing for coronavirus is not needed if you’re staying at home and remain
well enough to stay at home.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Provides simple direct answer stating no if you are staying at home.
This is an excellent answer because it is straightforward and answers the question without any unneeded information. It states explicitly that anyone without symptoms do not need to get tested.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Excellent

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Apply for coronavirus tests for a care home
section_headers: What the test involves
section_content: The test involves taking a swab of the inside of your resident’s or staff
member’s nose and the back of their throat, using a long cotton bud.
You can read guidance on how to do the
tests.
This test only tells you if you have coronavirus at the time of taking the
test. It doesn’t tell you if you’ve ever had coronavirus in the past.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Only discusses what happens during the test.
This is a bad answer because it does not state whether or not a whole household should be tested. Instead, the answer only talks about what the test is like and how it is conducted.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Bad