The inequitable distribution of rapid tests in Ontario

Guests: Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Rachel Mendleson, Star reporters

While Ontario Premier Doug Ford touted rapid tests as a "game changer" and directed for them to be distributed to hot spot neighbourhoods to help quell the virus, a Star investigation found that only one fifth of 20 million tests ended up in those areas in the first 10 months of the province's taxpayer-funded screening program. In fact, privates schools got more tests than many other industries that were hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. How did this happen? Who else won and lost in the inequitable distribution of these rapid tests?

This episode was produced by Alexis Green, Matt Hearn and Raju Mudhar.