{"id":4268,"date":"2024-01-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2024-01-11T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:12:16","slug":"health-canada-ignored-warning-signs-before-ottawa-spent-billions-on-btnx-rapid-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-ignored-warning-signs-before-ottawa-spent-billions-on-btnx-rapid-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada ignored warning signs before Ottawa spent billions on BTNX rapid tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada ignored critical warnings about a rapid-test supplier before approving its COVID-19 kits for distribution nationwide, Global News has found.<\/p>\n<p>A year-long Global News investigation into federal procurement revealed that BTNX, a Toronto-area rapid-test supplier that buys the devices from China, deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study it submitted to Health Canada in October 2020. Deleting the specimens increased the estimate of the rapid test\u2019s ability to detect the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada ignored critical warnings about a rapid-test supplier before approving its COVID-19 kits for distribution nationwide, Global News has found.<\/p>\n<p>A year-long Global News investigation into federal procurement revealed that BTNX, a Toronto-area rapid-test supplier that buys the devices from China, deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study it submitted to Health Canada in October 2020. Deleting the specimens increased the estimate of the rapid test\u2019s ability to detect the virus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/health-canada-ignored-warning-signs-before-ottawa-spent-billions-on-btnx-rapid-tests\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Canada ignored warning signs before Ottawa spent billions on BTNX rapid tests<\/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":[747,96,18,21,22,14],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-btnx","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-health-canada","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}