Switch Health

• ‘Can’t use your fingers’: Employee at Pearson airport testing site says freezing conditions unacceptable

  Employees are working in a pre-departure COVID testing site at Pearson airport with freezing conditions that are unacceptable, says a staff member.

  Canada

  Jan 11, 2022
  
• Company behind COVID-19 border testing says medical professionals ‘always’ oversee testing

  Top executives from Switch Health, the company behind Canada's COVID-19 border testing program, appeared before a meeting of Parliament's health committee on Friday.

  Canada

  May 28, 2021
  
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• Company behind Canadian COVID-19 border testing program misidentified some workers as nurses, insiders say

  Five employees who spoke with Global News said they acted as a Switch Health nurse or as a nurse assistant, but were not actually nurses.

  Health

  May 26, 2021
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• Toronto-area startup Switch Health accused of fumbling Canada’s COVID-19 border testing

  Global News has identified more than 100 Facebook and Twitter complaints and 150 Google reviews denouncing the poor quality of Switch Health’s services.

  Investigations

  Apr 26, 2021
• At-home COVID-19 test system endorsed by feds won’t let rural Saskatchewan family register

  'I feel like we're going to be quarantining until a courier decides that they're going to start doing rural Saskatchewan.'

  Canada

  Mar 2, 2021