An Ontario man says he wants to see more post-mortem COVID-19 testing, after a Windsor hospital denied a swab test request following the death of his grandmother. Steve Saunders say Windsor Regional Hospital denied his grandmother a post-mortem COVID-19 test due to hospital policy. As for why Ontario hasn't mandated wide-spread COVID-19 testing — specifically wide-spread testing of everyone who has died since the pandemic was declared — Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario's chief coroner, explained that testing everyone "would be not of value." Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario's chief coroner, says that conducting a post-mortem COVID-19 test on everyone who has died since the pandemic was declared wouldn't be of value. At the same time, he said an argument can be made that hospitals should be conducting post-mortem testing for COVID-19 "in suitable circumstances."

Source: CBC News July 09, 2020 10:52 UTC