Pandemic ‘widespread’ in Vancouver as testing capacity fails needs: B.C. doctor

By Graeme Wood / Glacier Media
COVID-19 is here. “Test, test, test,” says WHO. Every household should self-isolate now: Family doc

The most critical public health measure needed to significantly control or kill off the deadly novel coronavirus in absence of a vaccine or sustained mass isolation is failing in B.C., says Dr. Linda Jando, a family physician on the frontline of the global pandemic in Downtown Vancouver. Tests for COVID-19 are backlogged in the thousands, says Jando based on information she obtained from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).…

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