04-05-2020, 01:27 PM
(04-05-2020, 01:15 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-05-2020, 11:26 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Still 5 to 7 days? When this is all over, there needs to be a serious enquiry into what went wrong in Ontario wrt testing (among other things). I confess that I don't understand how it is that the Province with the most labs and the most money seems to be doing the worst job.
That's what they have said, no guarantee that is the actual backlog, they may just be being conservative, further, some tests seem to take longer than others, I don't know why, but they won't tell you a number less than the 90th %ile of tests.
So, 5-7 days is almost certainly very conservative. At one point it may not have been, but the backlog has shrunk.
The province says 981 cases under investigation (testing in progress) and they are doing 4,000+ tests per day so even allowing for some shipping and processing overhead it would not have expected it to take much more than a few days.