Canada desperately needs access to rapid saliva testing for COVID-19 as the country prepares to head indoors for the winter, says one of Canada's leading doctors. "We really desperately need some rapid testing to be done at points of congregation, or points of meetings, so that you can have use of some form of salivary testing or rapid nucleic acid testing, or even antigen testing in schools and work sites. Naylor said the worry is that cases are rising right before Canadians prepare to spend more time indoors over the winter. Naylor said that children and adults in the workplace should be tested with rapid result tests, such as a saliva-based test, even if those tests produce false positives and are not as reliable as lab tests. When such tests show someone has COVID-19, he said, that person should be immediately tested again to confirm the result.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2020 23:50 UTC