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Advertisement Toronto: As frustration mounts in Canada at the leaden weight of lockdowns and the glacial pace of vaccinations, a consortium of some of the country’s largest companies has launched a rapid testing program with the aim of protecting their 350,000 employees and publishing a playbook for businesses across Canada on how to reopen safely. The program, believed to be the first of its kind among the Group of 7 industrialised nations, has already attracted the attention of the Biden administration. Air Canada’s maintenance facility at the Toronto airport. A consortium of some...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management and the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School, where is he also the Chief Economist... view more  Credit: Joshua Gans February 8, 2021 New Book Says by Engaging in Rapid Frequent Screening We Can Control the Pandemic. The Pandemic Information Solution. Toronto - Covid-19 is a global pandemic inflicting large health and economic costs. In his previous book, The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (The MIT Press, 2020), economist Joshua Gans expla...

New book highlights need for rapid, frequent screening to control the pandemic Covid-19 is a global pandemic inflicting large health and economic costs. In his previous book, The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (The MIT Press, 2020), economist Joshua Gans explains that those costs have been so large because governments and others have lacked the information needed to control the pandemic. Unless we know who is infectious, we can't break the chains of transmission, which results in the escalation of our problems. Pandemics, he writes, are information problems. Relate...

Good morning! As coronavirus broke out last year, 12 Canadian companies, including Air Canada and Loblaw, came together last August to start a non-profit consortium led by the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab with the sole mission to develop and implement pilots for screening of COVID-19 at workplaces across Canada. The full roster of the companies is: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Genpact, Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart, Magna International Inc., MDA Corp., Air Canada, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., Nutrien Ltd., Rog...