‘My experience with Air Canada and Toronto Pearson Airport started great – and ended badly.’ Scenes from summer travel season, plus other letters to the editor for July 24
: It is baffling to me that government reinstated random COVID-19 testing at airports, considering the extensive domestic spread of the virus and appreciating what defines valuable screening.
In 1968, James Maxwell Glover Wilson and Gunnar Jungner developed well-accepted screening principles, including the key tenet that “the cost of case finding should be economically balanced in relation to the possible expenditure on medical care.” A recent letter in the Canadian Medical Association Journal calculated the cost to detect one random traveller with COVID at $120,000. This staggering expenditure determines the infectious status of one amongst thousands of active cases – without treatment or effective limitation of spread.
Do Canadians believe this exorbitant expense is warranted, while concerns about our health care system remain widely debated? Perhaps this money would be more valuable if used to fund nursing, personal support workers or other basic health care expenditures that actually save lives.I recently came back from Australia, diligently filled out my ArriveCan app with four vaccines – and was flagged for random COVID-19 screening.
What upset me is that this testing required salaries for two employees at a kiosk to sign me up, another to watch my test and a driver to deliver my test to the government. At the same time, Canada disposed of more than 13 million expired AstraZeneca vaccines that should have been sent to other nations.
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