COVID-19 test and was symptom-free.The local testing center was overrun, so Boutilier drove his son miles out of the city to a small town for the test.
They waited for four days for the result, which came back negative.By then, his son, who suffers seasonal allergies, had been symptom free for days and missed nearly a week of school.“If you’re going to send them home and have them get COVID tested for every runny nose and every sniffle then you’re never going to have any kids in school,” Boutilier said. “You’re just going to have line-ups upon line-ups at the testing centers.”The long checklist of symptoms that Canadian schools and daycare centers use to screen children has emerged as a major point of contention for parents.