The new testing strategy for COVID-19 in Ontario falls short by not proactively checking workers like grocery store clerks, airport limo drivers and house cleaners with “occupational risks,” experts caution. Wilfrid Laurier University epidemiologist Todd Coleman, a former public health official in London, Ont., said the strategy should go further by systematically targeting high-risk workers. “The bottom line is we don’t want to test people who don’t have symptoms,” associate medical officer Dr. Barbara Yaffe said Thursday. “If they are symptomatic they shouldn’t be going to work and they should be trying to get a test. Epidemiologists and opposition parties also called on the government to dramatically increase testing numbers beyond existing capacity.

Source: thestar May 14, 2020 14:45 UTC