Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK HIGH: BC, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end! PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6... MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...

Alberta hospital's mask mandate for measles ended a day after it alerted province, health officials www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @alannasmith.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

'Independent modelling teams demonstrate that maintaining a universal COVID-19 vaccine policy yields consistent population-level benefits, reducing hospitalizations & deaths beyond hi-risk-only strategies, even as immune escape shifts timing of seasonal peaks.' 👇 www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...

I spoke recently on the Big Story podcast about the deeply troubling spectacle of RFK Jr.'s recent Senate hearing. Despite claims he would focus on environmental toxins, he has immediately targeted childhood vaccination programs, creating widespread mayhem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujX...

The term "economic conservative social liberal" falls apart again. It isn't the thing we pretend it is - if economic policies aren't prioritizing social programs, like universal healthcare, social programs fail.

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

Here's the latest variant picture for the "Global - Other" countries, to early July. The NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" variant remained dominant, but fell to finish at 42%. XFG.* "Stratus" grew strongly to 40%. #COVID19 #GlobalOther #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #XFG #Stratus 🧵

Biased science panel making money from big tobac.. uh booze? Surely not. "[When researchers adjust for this error, protective effects vanish. What remains is clear: the more you drink, the higher your risk — even at relatively low levels of consumption]" www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/07/23/a...

There's still time to comment on the major revision to the respirator standard. It can be as simple as comments like "I support this section" and in the suggested changes "No changes needed". There *will* be others trying to remove its protections!

Community-led conservation is an essential approach for the Jane Goodall Institute. Without leadership from local community members, and without tackling problems holistically, conservation initiatives cannot truly succeed. 👉 Dr. Jane discovered this when she went to Gombe 65 years ago.

Always good to remember.

A Super Ager, Fauja Singh, ran his 1st marathon at age 89, and 8 more after that through age 101. How does he die at age 114 years? Hit by a car. apnews.com/article/olde...

So someone came on CBC this week to say 20% of Covid infections result in long COVID & it's just business as usual. No one realizes how dire this stat is. And CBC keeps on forcing its staff to work in offices with no mitigations

Got damn

People dying of measles in the US, Canada and UK was not on my Bingo card for the year 2025 What a shame! Paul Farmer would have called these “stupid deaths”

You’re over Covid. We’re obsessed with it. You don’t spend all day avoiding illness. We spend all day understanding it. You think science is “illness talk.” We’re just pointing out you keep getting sick…from the virus. You disconnected “being sick” from the virus itself. We didn’t. And we won’t.

Why do I still mask? I figured that the discomfort of wearing a mask, testing, and asking people if they have been sick, was less troublesome than the discomfort of Long Covid, chronic illness, organ damage, brain damage, immune damage, and being sick multiple times per year. #GetLoud #Covid

The IRS announced that churches and other houses of worship are now allowed to endorse political candidates to their congregations, effectively carving out an exemption to the longstanding ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - @hislopmd.bsky.social

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

Blistering from @kimwehle.bsky.social, constitutional law professor. zeteo.com/p/everyone-i...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

"How many more cases, hospitalizations and deaths must there be for Canada to learn from its past mistakes? It’s urgent that political agendas don’t blind policymakers to the harsh realities of COVID-19." All the yes to this. Great article. archive.md/bb2pu

The brutality of ego protection through covid denial.

“public health, not just individual striving, is key to living a long and healthy life” @profdevisridhar.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

It’s not that people don’t *believe* women. They just think whatever happened to you was your fault or not a big deal or somehow both at the same time.

Ontario's nurses are fighting back policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ju... @policyoptions.irpp.org 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Stock up on masks and clean air tools and stay healthy while travelling this summer! 😷 All proceeds from sales in our charity store support our Request Program. 💙 🛒 buymask.ca #MaskUp #MaskUpWhileTravelling #Travel #Summer #DreamVacation #Charity

It's starting to feel like relying purely on magical thinking may not have been a great strategy for dealing with COVID and its effects on the healthcare workforce after all.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

Here's the truth about tax cuts for the rich. They explode the federal debt, fuel giant profits at the biggest firms and financial institutions, and stoke a surge in billionaire wealth but do nothing for average working people. Nothing trickles down — and the tax cuts don't "pay for themselves."

Naming Dr. Henry to the Order of Canada spits in the face of every serious scientist, healthcare worker, public health practitioner, and victim of COVID. She botched SARS-CoV-1, botched the Seven Oaks investigation, and botched SARS-CoV-2. She has so much blood on her hands. This is *vile*. 🧵

Hello Canadians. This is a possibility with private health care. We must support, protect, and strengthen our universal health care.

This is an EXCELLENT article 👇 buff.ly/74cnDsr AB still has no CMOH, and still no active and robust PH public campaigns... the PH leadership is completely absent by govt design. We need to do better Alberta - it affects everyone of us.

Good news: the very low current levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, even in places where the new variants are prevalent (XFG, NB.1.8.1), suggest that any summer wave will be limited, not like previous ones www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

This is not about "left" vs "right" anymore — and it hasn't been for a long time. The oligarchy feels safer if people split along the old “left” vs.“right” battle lines, so they won’t notice they’re being shafted and won't join together to fight back.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs. In short, it’s terrible. A 🧵

“Alberta's auditor general has been granted his request for nearly $1 million in extra funding to dig deeper into allegations around overpriced private health care contracts and possible government interference.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This sets a powerful precedent.

An exciting legal precedent was just set in BC 🎉 The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...

I wonder how many people they figure we'd have to convince that the world is flat for it to actually become flat? 51%? Or do major changes require a 2/3 majority? Does the Senate have to approve? Royal Assent?🤔 "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" (Philip K Dick)

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness. Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

What you need to know about 3 #Alberta byelections as polls open Votes will be counted June 23 in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, Edmonton-Ellerslie and Edmonton-Strathcona www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Empirical support for the idea of "crank magnetism,” which describes the phenomenon where belief in one type of conspiracy or pseudoscience attracts multiple types: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evergreen commentary.