The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has admitted it cannot quantify the number of lives saved by the ArriveCAN app, which cost $54 million to develop and deploy and is now the subject of an investigation by the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.
“The Agency cannot quantify the exact number of lives indirectly saved through ArriveCan,” the Agency wrote to the committee. “Without the use of restrictive measures and without high levels of vaccination Canada could have experienced higher numbers of infections and hospitalizations.”
