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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Dear Elon, we’re out. The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.

Remember the early years of the pandemic? The man hiring Bhattacharya pushed the use of Hydroxychloroquine, now linked to 17,000 deaths. Bhattacharya's Great Barrington Declaration was denounced by The Infectious Diseases Society of America’s 12,000 front-line infectious diseases scientists. #idsky

Journalists, Dr. Jay Bhattachayra wanted to maximize infections in unvaccinated people under 70 or so, because he thought this would lead to herd immunity in 3-6 months. Not telling this to readers is to misinform them. Plenty more examples are available.

Your regular reminder that the COVID pandemic is NOT over. Please use language accordingly. Don’t refer to ‘during the pandemic’ or ‘post-COVID’ or ‘since COVID’. We are still in the thick of it - wave after wave. People are still dying or becoming disabled from Long COVID

I think viral load matters. Masking when you can, instead of not at all. N95ing when you can, instead of just the blue splashguard masks. Running a HEPA on whatever setting you can tolerate. Opening a window. Shooing away people who want to play coughinyourface. Less virus is less virus.

Absolutely superb piece on H5N1 in the US. 'One highly respected American virologist, David O’Connor, told me that “it seems that the United States is addicted to gambling with H5N1. But if you gamble long enough, the virus may hit a jackpot.” A jackpot for the virus would fuel a global pandemic'.

“At all levels of healthcare, efforts must be made to encourage vaccination education and legislation to protect the public’s health”. A colleague and I published a paper in 2012 on the dangers of vaccine exemptions for school entry. This was our conclusion. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.4161/...

I love this!

I spoke to the CBC Radio about a large measles outbreak in New Brunswick - article link below. I cannot stress enough how serious an infection measles is - recycling an op-ed I wrote on the topic(see link on my webpage for explainer video). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... www.bowdish.ca/lab/2024/03/...

“If what happened a century ago is any sort of guidepost, then the neurological symptoms we’re seeing now with SARS-CoV-2 and the number of people that are getting it are going to result in an increase in neurological disease in the coming years,” cvmbs.source.colostate.edu/viral-pandem...

Covid depletes cells that are key to the immune system and getting covid regularly means you'll be sick more often and this will not strengthen your immune system it will progressively weaken it and you'll end up dying younger. You were lied to because you had to get back to work

Perhaps more people will believe this now that The Economist has indicated through modelling the excess death during the pandemic is more like 27 MILLION?

If you vote for PP in the next election in CAN in 2025, expect mass layoffs with his cuts, because it will happen, it has happened with every other CON PM, look at history, they make cuts to social programs, & services across the country. Voting for him because you hate the other, is just laziness.

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Went to school, had to be vaccinated. Traveled the world, had to be vaccinated to get in. Worked in hospitals, had be vaccinated. The difference now? #antivaxxers and their toddler approach of ‘you can’t make me’ Get updated on all vaccines and for goodness sake, vaccinate your children.

~Jennifer Gunter is a Canadian / American doctor and the New York Times women's health columnist VIA Ken Hardie, Liberal Member of Parliament for Fleetwood-Port Kells riding. (Surrey, B.C.)

Something to think about. I'm still in both places as I am a small account so don't get the grief the big accounts do. Like being able to chat with some long time people I follow.

NEVER heard about needle length for vaccinations before this article.

PSA: 🚨 DO NOT TAKE YOUR MASK OFF INDOORS, even if there is no one else around.🚨 The virus persists in the air for HOURS because #CovidIsAirborne Only take your mask off outdoors, and preferably use an N95 mask. Important potentially lifesaving thread. Please RT. 1/n

Exactly This 👇.

If you have had Covid and it has harmed you long term, and you want to avoid catching Covid again because the medical evidence is that further infections may harm you further... that's not Health Anxiety, that's Health Common Sense.

If you think the cure to illness is more infection… * I can’t help you.

macleans.ca/society/misi... Big Idea: Teach kids about #misinformation. With the rampant spread of fake news and conspiracy theories, Canadian students would benefit from extra lessons in BS detection.

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Why doesn't public health have a campaign to let people know everyone who is going to be around a newborn needs to be vaccinated for pertussis? Especially since we are seeing outbreaks across Canada. Here in BC that would be Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

Love these new starter packs. I'm Jo-Anne @Jo10030676 over there and so happy to see so many of my previous follows here. You've been a fountain of scientific information for me over the last few years and I so appreciate it.

We need to encourage all people who are pregnant to be vaccinated for Covid and, of course, we must wear respirators around them. #CleanAir in schools is essential so we don't add to the problems that possibly occurred in utero. We already know children can get #LongCovid.

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Going to the funeral of a family friend - one of the few of the Greatest Generation I know now. They protected the world from dictatorships and now it’s our turn. Yes, I will ugly cry at his funeral.

First post! Something important that many are still not aware of although this was published in April/23. www.heartandstroke.ca/articles/cor...