Action4Canada - June 01, 2021


BC Health Officer admits PCR test is unreliable


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

146.82353

Word Count

208

Sentence Count

14


Summary

In this episode, Dr. Henry and Eva answer questions about the outbreak at South Granville Park Lodge and the need to test all health care workers and residents there for C.O.V.19. They also answer a question about whether or not all long-term care facility residents should be tested for the virus.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Next question is from
00:00:02.040 Eva from CBC.
00:00:04.040 Go ahead, please.
00:00:06.040 Hi, Dr. Henry, you mentioned
00:00:08.040 we might be playing catch-up
00:00:10.040 in some of the outbreaks at long-term care centres.
00:00:13.020 In order to try to get ahead of the outbreak
00:00:16.020 at South Granville Park Lodge in particular,
00:00:18.020 shouldn't all the health care workers and residents
00:00:20.020 there now be tested for COVID-19?
00:00:22.020 The testing, unfortunately,
00:00:24.020 doesn't tell us the whole story.
00:00:26.020 People can be negative one minute and positive
00:00:29.000 within an hour.
00:00:31.040 The test itself is not as sensitive
00:00:33.040 as we expected it to be at the beginning.
00:00:35.040 So we now know that about the false negative rate
00:00:38.040 can be as high as 30% early on in infection.
00:00:41.020 So we still, the norm is not to test people
00:00:44.020 who do not have symptoms
00:00:46.020 because we know the test doesn't perform very well
00:00:48.020 and we can have false negatives.
00:00:50.020 So we know the test doesn't perform very well
00:00:53.020 and we can have false negatives.
00:00:59.000 you can have false negatives.
00:01:00.020 But the other thing,
00:01:01.040 we feel better to resolve.
00:01:02.040 Okay,还是 we in absence
00:01:03.000 with my brother mouth no one
00:01:04.040 and that seems to fall
00:01:06.080 on behalf of the dead.
00:01:07.040 I Oh, that seems to be a rough
00:01:24.000 I thought so well.