“The goal is to use them to test children with symptoms but also to do random testing in 25 per cent of the school every week to see if we’re able to catch earlier on those who could be asymptomatic carriers,” said Dr. Caroline Quach, pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Ste. Justine Hospital.
“We’ll be able to understand better the transmission within a school — understanding if really it is the same virus that is being transmitted or if there are multiple points of entry,” she said.The project, which will begin on Monday, is being welcomed by the chosen schools, who say rapid testing could be a great resource.
“It’s good, it’ll be interesting to see some of the earlier results, but we should have been doing this way sooner,” she said. “And that’s the problem with this government from the beginning of this — it’s always been reacting to things instead of saying, let’s be proactive, let’s put in the measures we need to be on the safe side.”
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