[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Health experts have stressed the importance of testing in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and noted it’s also a way of identifying asymptomatic cases, where people don’t exhibit symptoms of the illness.Although Premier Jason Kenney, Health Minister Tyler Shandro and the province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr.
Deena Hinshaw, have repeatedly emphasized the importance of a rigorous testing regime to identify cases and contact people at risk, Braun said he did not believe testing is that important.“I thought the main thing was to stay home when you’re sick,” he said, acknowledging that COVID-19 is something to be careful about.“We should do the distancing and.