Some very interesting quotes from doctors... and the Feds.
CBC News · Posted: Jan 13, 2022
Ottawa is funding COVID-19 PCR tests for hundreds of thousands of travellers. Is it worth it?
Although Omicron has spread across Canada, the government continues to do mass arrival testing of travellers
Also note the section "Get rid of all PCR tests for travellers?"
QUOTES:
"What's really clear is that COVID is everywhere and that it's not travel that's the major source of spread," said Dr. David Carr, an emergency medicine professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto.
"Making people repeat their PCR [test] upon arrival is deflecting resources away from where they could be better spent."
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"Carr suggested that instead of demanding international travellers take two PCR tests, one 72 hours before arrival and one upon arrival, a more efficient use of resources might be to mandate travellers take a rapid antigen test right before boarding their flight.
Although PCR tests can be more accurate, antigen tests are much cheaper, don't have to be sent to a lab and can provide results within minutes. Travellers sometimes must wait days for PCR test results.
"If we're trying to make flying safer, I would rather fly in a plane of people who had a rapid test within the last 12 or 24 hours than a PCR in the last 72," said Carr."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tra...ment-1.6311868