More accurate testing key to fighting COVID-19 pandemic

False negatives enable more spreading of virus, while false positives sideline critical health-care workers.

Dr. Theresa Tam, pictured with her deputy, Dr. Howard Njoo, has said Canada is working to ramp up its capacity to test people for COVID-19, in the face of concerns about shortages and restrictive criteria. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Cameron Groome

April 8, 2020

By the time you read this, more than one million people worldwide will have tested positive for COVID-19 disease and more than 80,000 will have died. In Canada alone, more than 18,000 will have been confirmed as being infected with the novel coronavirus, with an accel...

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