Other useful information - cyclosporiasis does not transmit easily person to person because the parasite actually matures outside of the body. If you have symptoms (www.canada.ca/en/public-he...) it can be tested for and there is an effective anti-parasitic treatment.

I've been following this cyclospora outbreak story (and writing for Forbes) and now would be a good time to stop eating any uncooked fresh produce from the U.S. The CDC are investigating but no source/s identified yet. Canadian fresh produce is a much better bet. Never a better time to buy Canadian

This is preventable. 😷 www.ladbible.com/news/sport/w...

Fortunate to have a safe, air conditioned place to live and watch the @bluejays.com from but man, close the roof already. Folks are wilting.

This is just the most bullshit framing for pro-fossil fuel, anti-climate action conservative policy.

There should be zero job descriptions on the planet that require workers to regularly get infected. Zero. Working with communicable disease should equal PPE, including respirators, as well as hand hygiene etc.

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

Hey everyone! The minimizer who overconfidently "blew it" with SARS (to quote her colleagues) and overconfidently dismissed airborne transmission of COVID as a "tempest in a teapot" (which the UK COVID Inquiry found was a "widespread failure") is "confident there's no additional risk". Feel safe?

the uk gov lists andes hantavirus (ANDV) as airborne www.gov.uk/guidance/hig...

4/ Throughout this #OngoingPandemic, the problem has never been a lack of data. That accumulated very quickly. The problem has been & remains, poor #PublicHealth messaging & a lack of political will (i.e. politicians more interested in controlling the narrative, rather than actual infections).

Maybe because they read -

It's a lovely day, rates of disease are greatly reduced, and the air quality on this train is excellent. Shall we celebrate these improvements by bringing back smoking on trains?🧵

And this is why vibes plus "hakuna matata" does not equal a viable Public Health strategy.

Reversing the burden of proof regarding airborne transmission, and considering it from scratch as the baseline, is my deep conviction since 2020. We’ve lost so much energy and lives in consuming justifications. And also, do not forget this, @who.int was not far from this approach, before denying it.

By the time authorities admitted Covid was airborne, millions of people had already died. The Andes strain of Hantavirus spreads person to person. Everyone on the boat should have been quarantined. You don’t “wait & see” with a virus that has a 40% fatality rate.

AIRBORNE

This is Butterz. He is taking his mac and cheese to go. Has a very important lunch date with himself. 13/10 (TT: gwen_1964)

Join Dr Donald Milton, first author of this new BMJ paper, and me this Thursday 11A PT for a Ground Truths podcast on the topic www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Backed up by research from the Lancet. Rest is vital! Where is the health messaging? The government is doing the exact opposite of this.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

This is correct. Best available estimates suggest that the destruction of USAID, in which musk played a central role, will kill over 14 million people by 2030, 1/3 of them children aged < 5 years www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

Every time I see an article like this, Im reminded of all the people who pushed to re-open schools without any protections, who swore that children would not be impacted at all, and who also were happy risking the health and lives of teachers and school staff.

Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials who consistently downplayed COVID own this. Media who plarformed minimizers own this.

as a science journalist, lemme say it is utterly astounding to get science *and* journalism this wrong on every level

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime. Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

"Medical institutions must educate staff that Long COVID is a disabling condition affecting up to 40% of healthcare workers who contracted and continue to contract COVID-19 while working in hospitals that have failed to control the spread of the virus and other pathogens." #LongCOVID

BREAKING: Hungary just saw a stunning political shakeup. Opposition leader Péter Magyar says Prime Minister Viktor Orbán personally called to congratulate him on his victory, marking the imminent end to Orbán’s long grip on power.

The frustration that I have… I still don’t think the government has *ever* clearly communicated the long term risk to health that COVID-19 poses… and so most people still have no idea of the real pros and cons of getting infected or spreading disease.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

An excellent thread!

Same in the #Yukon, where there has been a noticeable uptick in public coughing & sneezing, coinciding with holiday gatherings, & more winter indoor living (currently snowing, with a wind chill of -28 degrees C) -

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I dunno, man. Seems pretty wild to write an extensive piece like this and only give a cursory mention of why so many people "declined to be interviewed." The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur from @weanimals has published a series of photos from two correctional facilities in Canada, where inmates work in farms where farmed animals share captivity with the prisoners. 👉 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/10/12/canadas-prisons-include-farmed-animal-inmates

Despite the marketing, it’s not a mere cold. We need to think beyond the initial acute-stage effects. Please take this seriously. “It’s not just long COVID. It’s a virus that rewrites the factory that makes immune cells - the bone marrow.”

NEW: A series of studies have shown that the diabetes drug metformin may help reduce the risk of #LongCOVID. So why isn't the information being translated into guidelines for providers? @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social reports for @thesicktimes.org! thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus! We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them. Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest" US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk. And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.

"Australian researchers unlocking secrets of COVID-19 may have landed on new ways to reduce organ injury from heart attacks and stroke" SARS-CoV-2 can damage endothelial cells, disrupting blood flow and oxygen delivery. This microvascular injury drives organ damage and Long COVID. archive.li/AMBdJ

+ The way "hostages" is applied to Israelis hostages but not to Palestinians when the same articles admit "vast majority of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge" which reads to me like they were hostages, too.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000. This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hello from New York. Today, we’ll hear from John Schneider, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Andrés Giménez on the podium. #BlueJays