RE:HC and FDA work 24/7 Fast Track Trudeau said on Wednesday that the most important task for Canada is to establish “massive rapid testing on a very wide-scale basis.” The quickest way to stop transmission is to quarantine people who are infected — but we don’t know who is infected, so the whole country is effectively in quarantine. A massive increase in testing allows us to be more precise about who to isolate.
Economist Paul Romer has called for 20 million to 30 million tests every day in the United States before the country contemplates lifting lockdown measures. Adjusted for Canada’s population, that would be more than three million tests every day.