Testing
We need more supports for dealing with COVID-19
January 10, 2024By: Michelle Young, Opinions Editor Recently, Global News reported that BTNX, “a small rapid test supplier based outside Toronto, deleted dozens of specimens, or samples, from a study it submitted to Health Canada.” In turn, this meant these tests were more likely than originally reported to produce a false negative — meaning you could still be positive and infectious with COVID-19, despite a negative result. While BTNX has refuted these claims, this isn’t necessarily a new problem — COVID-19 tests have become increasingly unreliable at detecting new variants. Further, testing at the wrong point during your infection can also yield…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Two+ midterms
July 7, 2022By: Jerrica Zabala, SFU Student Course selection week! The best time of the semester — when we’re all absolutely drowning in school work. I gloss over prospective course syllabi and suddenly find myself in the shits; I’ve just found out the…
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SFU launches COVID-19 rapid screening pilot project
July 15, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer On June 8, 2021, SFU launched a COVID-19 rapid screening pilot project to operate on Tuesdays and Fridays for eight weeks. Taking place on the Burnaby campus, the pilot is open to students living…
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Research Roundup: SFU researchers develop AI tool to better diagnose COVID-19 cases
July 1, 2020Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate SFU Researchers and Providence Health Care (PHC) are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better understand how to detect COVID-19 cases. The tool, which is currently under testing in St. Paul’s Hospital, will help clinicians…
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Album Reviews
June 10, 2018By Neil MacAlister Daytona by Pusha-T Pusha-T is dominating the media right now, not because he just dropped the best album of the year, but because he’s embroiled in (and clearly winning) the most vicious rap beef the genre’s seen…
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