Resources
Explainers
How to Beat COVID-19 with At Home Rapid Testing (Michael Mina)
Testing for COVID-19: How to best use the various tests? (OECD Policy Responses to COVID-19)
The Big Lesson from South Korea’s Coronavirus Response (Vox)
The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19 (Joshua Gans)
Rapid coronavirus tests: a guide for the perplexed (Nature)
Coronavirus: How to Do Testing and Contact Tracing (Tomas Pueyo)
The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back (The Atlantic)
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—if We Want To (The New Yorker)
How quick and dirty Covid tests could end the weariness (Financial Times)
Paul Romer’s Case for Nationwide Coronavirus Testing (The New Yorker)
The CEO’s Guide to Safely Reopening the Workplace (MIT Technology Review)
Covid Vaccines Aren’t Enough. We Need More Tests. (The New York Times, 12 March 2021)
Rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic people as a public health tool to combat COVID-19 (CMAJ)
Rapid antigen testing in COVID-19 responses (Science, 7 May 2021)
New Evidence for Safely Reopening K-12 Schools: Testing Can Reduce Infections and Increase Confidence (Mathematica, 4 Feb 2021)
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says (Nature, 12 Aug 2021)
Media
Creative Destruction Lab Rapid Screening Consortium Wins Project of the Year Award (Globe Newswire, 2 Dec 2022) - PMI, Rotman School of Management
Canadian study shows low incident of false positive test results from rapid antigen tests (EurekAlert!, 14 Jan 2022)
A Week After Launching RAT Tracker, We’re Still in the Dark (The Local, 11 Jan 2022)
New rapid screening technology powered by Microsoft eases return to work for top Canadian organizations (IT World Canada, 10 Nov 2021)
Business coalition hopes success of COVID-19 workplace-screening pilot will be a model for the future (The Logic, 19 Oct 2021)
U.S. Rapid Action Consortium Commends President Biden's Call for Vaccines, Testing (Genpact, 10 Sept 2021)
Law Firms in Canada Turn to Rapid Screening Program for Office Returns Amid Fourth Wave of COVID (Law.com, 17 Aug 2021)
12 ways U of T is preparing for a safe return to in-person instruction (University of Toronto, 27 July 2021)
Rapid COVID-19 tests could become workplace norm this fall (The Globe & Mail, 9 Jul 2021)
Sun Life will let Canadian employees choose whether to return to the office (The Globe & Mail, 7 Jul 2021)
Rapid testing for COVID-19 on rise at Canadian workplaces, group says (City News, 23 June 2021)
‘Like a pregnancy test:’ Rapid COVID-19 tests key tool to keep virus out of offices (Toronto Star, 23 June 2021)
Update on Asymptomatic Testing, New Workplace Testing Initiative (Province of Nova Scotia, 11 June 2021)
Microsoft Rapid Screening Solution, with the CDL Rapid Screening Consortium, now being used for at-home screening to help keep workplaces safe (French. Microsoft News Centre Canada, 3 June 2021)
PETER NICHOLSON & JEFF LARSEN: How Nova Scotia can reopen with confidence (Saltwire, 3 June 2021)
Business leaders see rapid testing as the key to economic reopening (Financial Post, 1 June 2021)
Rapid testing and reduced office space part of Sun Life’s plan for a return to the workplace (The Globe & Mail, 6 May 2021)
Air Canada Highlights its Pandemic Health and Safety Initiatives for Employees During NAOSH Week 2021 (Air Canada, 5 May 2021)
Could regular testing of workers slow the spread of COVID-19? (Today, 27 April 2021)
Rapid testing could help fight the third wave, but slow-moving bureaucracy has delayed rollout (National Post, 12 April 2021)
A program that boosted rapid testing in Canada will try to do the same in the U.S. (The New York Times, 24 March 2021)
Propelling economic recovery: U.S. Rapid Action Consortium (24 March 2021)
Opinion: Rapid screening for COVID-19 is coming soon. Is your organization ready? (The Globe & Mail, 25 March 2021)
Suncor to use rapid COVID-19 tests on workforce mobilizing for its planned site maintenance (CBC, 18 March 2021)
Opinion: Rapid COVID-19 screening tests are sitting in Canadian warehouses. Governments and businesses need to collaborate to put them to use (The Globe and Mail, 18 February 2021)
"The Creative Destruction Lab Rapid Screening Consortium (CDL RSC), created out of the University of Toronto, has led the way in showing how businesses across the country can make rapid antigen screening work in workplaces." - The Honourable John Manley, senior adviser at Bennett Jones LLP, and previously Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Foreign Affairs, and Finance
PM Trudeau provides COVID-19 update, announces extension of some emergency benefits (19 February 2021)
“This is a tough virus to beat but I know it's no match for Canadian team work and innovation. Just look at the results we are already seeing from our partnership with the CDL Rapid Screening Consortium to roll out tests to workplaces. 26 pilot sites, 12 employers across the country, and more than 5000 screening tests done so far. Already, they have caught positive cases. That means that people who otherwise might not have known were able to take the right steps to protect themselves, their families, and their coworkers. We have to use every tool in the toolbox to keep people safe because we are not out of the woods yet.” - The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
‘Like Wartime’: Canadian Companies Unite to Start Mass Virus Testing (The New York Times, 30 January 2021)
Private testing program looks to expand rapid COVID-19 antigen tests for businesses (The Globe and Mail, 17 February 2021)
The COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Explainer (Eat Move Think Podcast, 15 February 2021)
Rapid-testing pilot project hopes to get people back to workplaces safely (CBC News: The National, 8 February 2021)
Alberta's oilsands take steps to keep COVID-19 in check as total cases creep past 1,000 (CBC News, 6 February 2021)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provides Canadians with a COVID-19 update (CBC News, 2 February 2021)
Air Canada, Rogers and Suncor part of group piloting rapid COVID-19 testing (Global News, 1 February 2021)
Air Canada, Suncor and other companies launch ‘rapid screening consortium’ to test for coronavirus (National Post, 1 February 2021)
Several Canadian corporations band together for COVID-19 rapid testing project (CBC News, 1 February 2021)
How a consortium of Canadian companies is bringing rapid COVID-19 testing to the workplace (The Star, 1 February 2021)
Air Canada, Rogers and Suncor among companies piloting COVID-19 rapid tests (The Globe and Mail, 1 February 2021)
Air Canada, Rogers et Suncor à l'origine d'un projet pilote de dépistage rapide (Radio Canada, 1 February 2021)
Air Canada, Rogers and Suncor part of consortium piloting rapid COVID-19 testing (CTV News, 1 February 2021)
Air Canada, Rogers and Suncor part of consortium piloting rapid COVID-19 testing (BNN Bloomberg, 1 February 2021)
Posthaste: How a rapid testing consortium led by 12 Canadian companies could accelerate our return to the office (Financial Post, 1 February 2021)
Opinion: Rapid testing will help us turn the corner on COVID-19 (The Globe and Mail, 19 January 2021)
Companies to launch rapid testing for employees (The Globe and Mail, 21 December 2020)
Big News! The Rapid Screening Pilots have arrived (Plugging the Gap newsletter, 18 December 2020)
12 big Canadian companies to start voluntary rapid COVID-19 testing of employees (City News, 18 December 2020)
About rapid tests
A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, ASTHO)
National COVID-19 Testing & Tracing Action Plan (The Rockefeller Foundation)
Scientific studies
Large-scale implementation of rapid antigen testing system for COVID-19 in workplaces (Science Advances)
False-Positive Results in Rapid Antigen Tests for SARS-CoV-2 (JAMA)
Accuracy of novel antigen rapid diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2: A living systematic review and meta-analysis (PLOS Medicine)
Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 surveillance
Test Sensitivity for Infection versus Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2
Fast coronavirus tests: what they can and can’t do (Nature)
COVID-19 testing: One size does not fit all (Science)
Economic Benefits of COVID-19 Screening Tests
The Proportion of SARS-CoV-2 Infections That Are Asymptomatic (ACP)
Clarifying the evidence on SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid tests in public health responses to COVID-19 (The Lancet)
Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening (Science Advances)
The sites linked to here are publicly available resources that inform on rapid tests. The CDL Rapid Screening Consortium lists them for interest and should not be taken as the Consortium’s agreement with claims and opinions represented.