Despite the name, getting easy access to rapid tests for COVID-19 in Canada is moving at a glacial pace.

While experts believe rapid testing may be one of the many tactics to help get under control, so far in Canada they are being used in limited ways, still being tested or just being stockpiled for potential future use.

As well, a rapid test for home use has for use in Canada.

The big knock on rapid tests is that they are not as accurate as the gold standard of lab-based tests, but as the French philosopher Voltaire may agree, are we letting the perfect become the enemy of the good?

is a Star reporter who has been covering rapid tests and he joins This Matters to explain the slow hand they have been dealt across the country.

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