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David Juncker

David Juncker is a professor and the department chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University.

Rapid COVID-19 saliva tests are the swatter that could squash the pandemic: will Canada deploy them?

MONTREAL—As vaccines are being developed at a breakneck pace, it is unlikely that they will be available to us before summer next year. Rapid

Opinion | BY DAVID JUNCKER | September 9, 2020

Canada's Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured May 26, 2020, on the Hill. Why are we not deploying rapid tests? For one, Health Canada must approve them, but only took a first, timid step a few days ago, by indicating they would consider them. If we want to fully benefit from them this fall, we must move by leaps and bounds, and marshal the best of Canada towards and develop a strategy for the most effective deployment of rapid, cheap saliva testing for everyone, everywhere, writes David Juncker. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Rapid COVID-19 saliva tests are the swatter that could squash the pandemic: will Canada deploy them?

Opinion | BY DAVID JUNCKER | September 9, 2020

MONTREAL—As vaccines are being developed at a breakneck pace, it is unlikely that they will be available to us before summer next year. Rapid

Rapid COVID-19 saliva tests are the swatter that could squash the pandemic: will Canada deploy them?

Opinion | BY DAVID JUNCKER | September 9, 2020

MONTREAL—As vaccines are being developed at a breakneck pace, it is unlikely that they will be available to us before summer next year. Rapid

Canada's Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured May 26, 2020, on the Hill. Why are we not deploying rapid tests? For one, Health Canada must approve them, but only took a first, timid step a few days ago, by indicating they would consider them. If we want to fully benefit from them this fall, we must move by leaps and bounds, and marshal the best of Canada towards and develop a strategy for the most effective deployment of rapid, cheap saliva testing for everyone, everywhere, writes David Juncker. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade