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COVID-19 test offered for flyers returning to Canada from U.S.

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Jane Stevenson

Publishing date:

Feb 06, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  2 minute read

Ichor Blood Services COVID-19 test. PHOTO BY HANDOUT /Mike Kuzmickas

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Have COVID-19 test, will travel.

Ichor Blood Services, a Calgary-based specimen collecting company, is selling lab-quality saliva COVID-19 tests that Canadians heading to the U.S. can take with them to use 72 hours before returning to Canada where they are required to have a negative test within that time period before getting on the plane.

 

 

 

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Ichor CEO Mike Kuzmickas said for $250 (for tests from one to four people) plus $25 shipping, you can purchase the COVID-19 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, manufactured by Fisher Scientific, from them online and it will be mailed to your house before your trip to the U.S.

Ichor Blood Services COVID-19 test. PHOTO BY HANDOUT /Mike Kuzmickas

Or, as of Feb. 15, DrugSmart Pharmacy locations (there is one in Toronto Pearson International Airport) and Ichor Blood Services office locations will start selling them.

DrugMart is working with Ichor to also get vending machines set up at other Canadian airports.

“Transport Canada on their website has a list of approved facilities around the world or the United States that people can visit but it says right there, it’s on the traveller to find their own testing centre, get the test and get it done, which is extremely inconvenient and intimidating,” said Kuzmickas.

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“So this way you just have a kit in your luggage and you do it from your hotel room and then you come home,” he explained.

 

 

 

Within 72 hours of heading back, you can perform the test, send it to Ichor’s U.S. lab, then the results are emailed back to you as a PDF that you can print off before you fly home or just have it on your phone so you can get on the plane with a negative COVID-19 test.

Results come back from anywhere in mainland U.S. between 24 to 30 hours while Hawaii is closer to the 54-60 hour window.

“So you take the whole kit with you,” said Kuzmickas. “When it’s time to do your test, you book your video appointment, someone video witnesses you spitting in your tube, you put the FedEx return address on, and it will go back on the box and you send it to the lab.”

Kuzmickas said right now their test only works for the U.S. “because there are a few issues with international shipping, a few more complications, but with U.S. shipping, with our lab in the U.S., it’s very easy to have the return label on the box.‘

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[okletsmakemoney]

Looks like Ichor is getting ready for Aristotle. https://ichorblood.ca/pages/Services/Cancer+Screening+Tests/23

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[Liked2Think]

what are you talking about?  did i miss something?

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[Bully88]

Seeing Aristotle on Ichor's website has me very excited. Looks like they are just about ready to launch IMO Pretty soon we will be able to open a Purchase Aristotle Test Here tab on Ichor's website and then landing on SZLS website and it will be right beside the 3 they have here https://www.stagezerolifesciences.com/purchase-tests.html Its an interesting feeling to finally be at the