{"id":4243,"date":"2024-01-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2024-01-10T01:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:07:04","slug":"interior-health-drops-all-covid-19-rapid-tests-at-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/interior-health-drops-all-covid-19-rapid-tests-at-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Health drops all COVID-19 rapid tests at facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Health (IH) has completely withdrawn its COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RAT) from its facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to an internal memo obtained by Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The rapid tests) are not reliable for diagnosis of COVID-19,\u201d the memo stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such COVID-19 RAT testing can no longer be used to direct clinical care or infection prevention and control measures, and must be discontinued immediately in Interior Health affiliated emergency rooms, hospitals, long-term care facilities (and) outpatient settings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Health (IH) has completely withdrawn its COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RAT) from its facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to an internal memo obtained by Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The rapid tests) are not reliable for diagnosis of COVID-19,\u201d the memo stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such COVID-19 RAT testing can no longer be used to direct clinical care or infection prevention and control measures, and must be discontinued immediately in Interior Health affiliated emergency rooms, hospitals, long-term care facilities (and) outpatient settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/interior-health-drops-all-covid-19-rapid-tests-at-facilities\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interior Health drops all COVID-19 rapid tests at facilities<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,96,18,23,824,290,22,14],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-interior-health","tag-long-term-care-homes","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}