Dr. Jillian Horton @JillianHortonMD Twitter profile

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Dr. Jillian Horton

4 years

I wrote this piece because years ago, Hawkeye taught me there is a way to make it through this war. Thank you @latimes for the chance to share it on your pages. @alanalda @alda @AldaCenter @FilmmakerJulie @GoldFdtn @rocketgirlmd @chrissyfarr @picardonhealth #MASH4077 #COVID19

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4 years

Op-Ed: As a doctor on 'MASH,' Hawkeye showed me how to get through this war on the coronavirus (via @latimesopinion )

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Sad observation: Some of the voices who were the loudest about the "moral imperative" of hustling unmasked kids into poorly ventilated, unmitigated classrooms are now the quietest about what is happening in pediatric emergency rooms.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

There are more people who know they could get Hep A from a clamshell of strawberries sold 3000 miles away than people who know they are being exposed to a neuroinvasive virus by shopping unmasked in their own grocery store.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Nobody in BC is wearing a mask & there are signs everywhere saying HANDWASHING IS YOUR BEST DEFENSE but I want y'all to know that while a neuroinvasive virus is spreading unchecked...airport security stopped me from getting through with 1oz of forgotten cherry jam in my carry-on

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

I have way more #Premier fatigue than #covid fatigue.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

From BC to Ontario: How can we ever trust provincial public health again, for anything?

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Can I be done with people who are done with covid?

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Instead of the Greek alphabet, let's start calling all new variants "Denial".

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Data suppression by Premiers. Silence from CMOHs. School boards saying we're no longer in "a pandemic situation." A public with no information to gauge community risk. Abandonment of the vulnerable. A wave you have to crowdsource to confirm. That's our 2022 pandemic response.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

My God this man is unfit for public service. So petty, so mean, so downright weird, so intent on fanning a culture that augments current national security threats.

Pierre Poilievre

@PierrePoilievre

2 years

Justin Trudeau thinks he needs a vacation from Canada. Help me make it a one-way ticket:

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

Covid is causing diverse post-infectious long-term sequelae in adults. Important to ask why the possibility it's setting kids up for unusually severe illness is being treated as fringe theory. *We don't know*. But why downplay that important possibility til we DO know more?🧐

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

The Premier was excited to announce that 140+ RNs have completed a 2-wk course to become critical care nurses. I have no doubt they are wonderful. And I also have no doubt that a nurse with a 2-week course is not the same as one who has been working in the ICU for 10 years.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

I'm worried about my colleagues right now. Doctors, nurses, residents, allied health staff, the ward clerks, everybody. There's nothing left in the tank and no clear strategy for how we're going to avoid crushing the same ppl into fine powder to get through the next Greek letter.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Two years of no covid. Now, just 10 days into "Infect Manitoba" we're one of the thousands of #Mb families with covid in the house. Gov is concealing data and have actively chosen mass infection. Public health should be rebranded as private health. That's who they represent now.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Time for a class-action lawsuit? 🤔

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

3 years

One of the first times during the pandemic that I am too angry to speak. I am just so damn sick of how our society has to suck up the consequences of the incompetence of leaders who lack insight, empathy and humility, and the caution that is the hallmark of all those things.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

1 year

Premier, what's most important to you? Protecting your base or protecting our children's hospital?

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

3 years

Dr. Hinshaw and others catastrophically gambled on a decoupling of cases and hospitalisations but what we HAVE seen is a decoupling of leadership and accountability. @jvipondmd

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

The "F" word that offends me to my core? Fascism. @DianeNTherrien

Peterborough mayor defends her use of the f-word in response to weekend protest | CBC Radio

Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien pulled no punches when she sent an f-word filled tweet out in response to a scene that played out over the weekend. Therrien explained her motivation to As It...

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Tweeting this on its own, minus its original RT and thread: We have seen radical overconfidence that mild infection is inconsequential - especially in children. We don't know what we don't know. And most of our decision makers are not leading with humility.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

1 year

Patients don't usually have a choice re: whether they need to be hospitalised or have tests and procedures. They shouldn't have to worry about whether they will acquire Covid-19 in the process. Expect many more stories like this in the coming months.

Former Guess Who drummer on life support, family calls for return of mask requirements at health-...

Last month, Vance Masters was at home, on a treadmill, exercising in preparation for his first evening out since the pandemic began. Now, the 77-year-old internationally recognized musician is on...

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Here's the unpopular truth: in the absence of strong public health measures that reduce and slow the spread of covid, we won't have a functional healthcare system, because there will never be a post-traumatic phase when healthcare can regroup, rebuild, recover. @picardonhealth

André Picard

@picardonhealth

2 years

'What century is this?' Man in pain, scared and waiting 4 days in Ontario hospital hallway to fix broken leg. 'This is insane,' Ron Prickett, 76, says of a provincial health system in turmoil, by @ColinButlerCBC via @cbcnews #cdnhealth #CanadaWAITS

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

"Ask your doctor if Long Covid is right for you." @DFisman @AbraarKaran @picardonhealth @westjet #worstjet

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

@ianhanomansing Don't know what you're referring to, but I'm far more offended by unnecessary death, total abandonment of the marginalised/ disabled, and our failure to mitigate this wave. What if that's the thing that's actually toxic? @BrooksFallis @DrNancyOlivieri

Opinion: I’m tired of kindness gaslighting

As a health care worker, I’m fed up with overly simplistic definitions of kindness

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

When I see an economist weigh in on the urgency of dropping public health measures, I wonder how they would respond if docs started writing op-eds schooling banks on the steps they need to take to control inflation?

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

How did it spread? The exact same way covid did. Because we didn't do enough to contain it when we still had the chance. And now we have exponential growth.

Reuters

@Reuters

2 years

Canadian truck drivers demanding an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates have caused gridlock in the capital Ottawa. Now, copycat protests have sprung up in Australia, New Zealand and France. How did the 'freedom convoy' spread?

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Today my youngest son said the most amazing thing. He said, "Mom, it's ok to be sad, but if you keep only being sad, you don't have any space left to be happy."

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

My last article compared provincial leadership to pinworms and I just want to say on further reflection I'm sorry, that was harsh and inappropriate, and I want to issue an unconditional apology to pinworms.

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

This is breathtaking.

Tom Jackman

@frozen

1 year

Kids are actively dying from preventable illnesses they picked up in our schools, and health officials refuse—still—to do anything to protect them. Instead, they're going out of their way to maintain the fiction that schools, as configured, are safe.

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

💯agree. Because @jvipondmd speaks the full truth, he doesn't get "most influential" trophies or acknowledgment by professional orgs. Subconsciously, I think he pisses some ppl off bc he inadvertently forces them to look at what principles they've abandoned bc of self-interest.

David Fisman

@DFisman

1 year

Just to say that @jvipondmd is an unsung hero of the pandemic. I don’t think his influence is fully appreciated, because he’s worked tirelessly behind the scenes, as well as in public.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

One difference between politicians and doctors is that doctors are not required to avoid telling people things they don't want to hear in order to continue being doctors. @DFisman @padams29 @topcoachdino @KindrachukJason @NathanStall #mbpoli

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

What happened to @BrooksFallis is exactly why MORE doctors need to speak out. There's safety in numbers - can't fire everyone. Leave one colleague alone on the stage and it's easy for them to get the hook. Join them up there and you've change the calculus. Never too late.

Bruce Arthur

@bruce_arthur

2 years

Either hospital leaders lied to @brooksfallis about his firing, or a number of them were somehow misinformed. Otherwise, a star doctor was fired from a leadership position from a Covid hotspot hospital in the third wave in response to government pressure.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 months

Poilievre said the majority of Canadians “already have...coverage through their workplace or through social services.” Does he know about policy caps? Pharmacare deductibles that can be 10's of thousands of $? "Coverage" often belongs in air quotes.

Diabetes medications, contraceptives to be funded by Ottawa as NDP, Liberals reach agreement on...

Agreement allows legislation to be tabled by March 1 deadline, extending NDP support of Liberal minority government

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Joe Vipond's #twitter account apparently caught up in mass reporting of accounts pretending to be him. @twitter @verified can you please look after this? Protect HCWs like him from targeted harassment on your platforms. @CMA_Docs @AlikaMD @KatharineSmart

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

This one is going out especially to the leaders in #Alberta . Enough calling for #kindness when your failed policies are resulting in mass casualties. HCWs have had enough of it. Kindness is actions, not words. @picardonhealth @jvipondmd @CBCFletch

Opinion: I’m tired of kindness gaslighting

As a health care worker, I’m fed up with overly simplistic definitions of kindness

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

My ER/ ICU colleagues are breaking ribs during CPR but this guy thinks *he's* the hero for serving 'em during a pandemic. His faith in his God-given license to grill gives a whole new meaning to jerk sauce. @SharkawyMD @ASPphysician @NathanStall @picardonhealth @BerniceRet

Hamilton Spectator

@TheSpec

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Owner of Adamson Barbecue led away in handcuffs Thursday as protesters clash with police

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@JillianHortonMD

7 months

Pause for a moment to think about the novelty of Premier @wabkinew delivering this message to HCWs: "...the idea of retribution in health care, for those who speak out from the front lines, is now over." Psych safety from the very top. What a concept.🙏

Kinew hits pause on Manitoba surgical and diagnostic task force to examine needs, spending | CBC...

Premier Wab Kinew is pressing the brakes on the provincial task force created to tackle Manitoba's surgical and diagnostic backlogs.

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Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

4 years

@sarahbethmd14 @pinoykidsdoc As healthcare workers - their actions are heroic but I don't think helpful to call them heroes. Important to call them what they are: citizens who were failed by the actions of their government and by their society to protect them, who were put in harm's way by others.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 months

"It appears the pandemic left some deep wounds in the economy – something few economists saw coming." 🤯Perhaps the few who DID see it coming understood that populations with higher burdens of chronic illness aren't a backbone of healthy economies?

Opinion: A harsh truth: The world economy never recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic

It appears the pandemic left some deep wounds in the economy, something few economists saw coming

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

How long to you get to be horrifically incompetent and remain Premier? Asking for some intubated kids.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

I don't even know what to say about my province's gaslighting position on masks anymore. The idea that we're getting great "seals" with medical masks and only need N95s for AGMP - I don't even need to respond to it anymore. A layperson can pick it apart. @CPita3 @kprather88

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

A really great thing for kids' health is having a functional pediatric hospital in their community.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

If you are eligible for a booster & don't have it yet, booking one should take precedence over everything else you do today. If you're not vaxxed/ have one shot, this is the universe giving you last-call to do the right thing before our healthcare system - & HCWs - are crushed.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Can't be the only one surprised to find myself weeping?

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

The worst crisis in generations is indeed happening in healthcare. The other "worst crisis" is the pervasive, malignant, strategic sociopathy of people like this in government.

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This is what we’re dealing with at Queen’s Park…a health care parliamentary assistant who makes a mockery of the challenges in our system. #onpoli

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

@caruzycki @DFisman Last year was the universe throwing us a bone. Could have launched wartime effort to clean the air, kept masks in essential places, moved ++ life outside, synchronised science communication. Instead, PH had a going-out-of-business sale & grifters got famous. Too sad for words.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

I don't believe in the feasibility of "zero" covid. I also don't believe in "zero" mitigations. Tired of hearing ppl present these as binary.👎👎They know better & I think public does too. There's middle ground - heavy on cleaning air (should be apolitical!) but isn't clickbait.

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

Forty. Five. Hours.

Theresa Boyle

@theresaboyle

1 year

Ontario ER wait times up to 45 hours for most patients: report

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

We do not know what we do not know. Any experts stating that covid infection is of no consequence to kids need to examine that assumption as a potentially devastating cognitive error. We ignore the wisdom of @PeterHotez at our collective peril. @lisa_iannattone @KatharineSmart

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

@PeterHotez

2 years

We don’t want to face a situation a year from now in which all this happy talk today turns into a generation of kids with neurocognitive impairments, diabetes, or other chronic conditions. There’s still a lot we don’t know, and another reason we need to do better vaccinating kids

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Curious why all the ppl/ politicians/ orgs who pretend to care about "freedom" aren't expressing horror and outrage at what happened to @BrooksFallis ? Does it not fit their definition of censorship?🤔🤔🤔 @CTVW5

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

If a person has come out after several previous waves & said "It's over!" & made public assurances that were blatantly wrong and downright ignorant, why are news outlets still talking to them? I mean, a Google search can pony that up in 15 seconds. What's really going on there?

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@JillianHortonMD

1 year

So grateful to the team at @globeandmail for space to tell my sister's story in this way...illuminated by decades of letters written by midnight oil & our mother's unrelenting love. Hardest thing I've ever written but worth it if now you know her name.

Opinion: My disabled sister’s struggle to be understood – and my mother’s tireless quest to help her

Disability made Wendy Horton’s life hard, despite my mother’s decades of pleading to get Manitoba politicians to act. I have a bag of old documents – and magazine clippings of the Latimer case – to...

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

When Hinshaw and Kenney speak - I see no trace on their faces of the weight that a regular person would feel if their actions had killed *hundreds*. Most physicians go into a tailspin if their human error results in one unnecessary death. @GermHunterMD @jvipondmd

Stephen Mintsioulis

@smintsioulis

3 years

AB pulled back on contact tracing over the summer because the CMOH said we needed to refocus on syphilis and the opioid crisis. Today, 34 Albertans died of COVID, a third of new cases are in children, and we have no meaningful protection for students. These people are ghouls.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

Colleagues, don't give up. I've heard so many ppl say they are done speaking out because it is pointless. It *isn't* pointless. Feeling that way is so understandable. But it matters now more than ever. Stick together. Don't back down. We will not let each other be broken by this.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

There's a desperate need for an institution to establish itself as the national centre of excellence for defending citizens who counter harmful anti-science. No doc, scientist, civilian should have to face the $ and personal stress of going up against right-wing machinery alone.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

If we'd pursued a COVID zero strategy starting months ago, how different our life would be now. No more ridiculous than treating an early stage cancer with chemo. You go aggressive bc you go for cure. We appear to have gone for chronic relapse w no clear end in sight.

Dr. Dick Zoutman

@DickZoutman

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This excellent article nails it. #COVIDzero is THE way to go! All countries should pursue a Covid-19 elimination strategy: here are 16 reasons why | New Zealand | The Guardian

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@JillianHortonMD

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What should we be doing right now? -two-way masking in places where ppl must go - including schools -enable work-from-home where possible to⬇️spread -clean the damn air - a basic right esp for those who *can't* work from home -relentless PH campaign re: covid is airborne

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

"We don't have crystal balls" as a statement is condescending and ignorant. That's literally why we have epidemiologists and Science Tables. They tell us - with amazing precision - what's coming next. So since we have no science table, we (conveniently) have no crystal ball...🤔

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

I felt so safe on that flight you have no idea

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

You know what would have helped in our “fight against COVID”? Not letting things get to this point. That’s what so many of us were begging for and to everyone’s detriment, our Premier treated us like we were his most hated political adversaries.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Everybody should have access to rapid tests. The insistence in some quarters of provincial governments that they will be misused is missing the plot. Deployed in large numbers, they will still be a net positive. Deployed in a warehouse, they will be useless.

Chrystia Freeland

@cafreeland

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Today, two members of my staff, who used rapid antigen tests as a precaution, received a positive test result. They are self-isolating at home. I have not had direct contact with them. The rest of my staff in Ottawa have had negative antigen tests today.

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Surreal watching #CMOHS - fellow MDs - describe a malicious & indefensible #infectionmandate as "empowerment". Trust will be years to regain. My thoughts w thx to @globeandmail . @picardonhealth @DFisman @kprather88 @peterhotez @BrooksFallis @AbraarKaran

Opinion: We’re ‘empowered’ to make COVID-19 decisions, public health officials say. So why do we...

Despite what appears to be another wave, many of our chief medical officers of health are merely parroting their political superiors, offering fewer restrictions and less transparency along the way

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Inquests will make it clear that @MoriartyLab was a hero, while many who were evasive or dishonest with public earned a shocking number of zeros. @picardonhealth

Tara Moriarty

@MoriartyLab

2 years

The Oct 14 @COVID_19_Canada COVID Hazard Index and associated data are now live. SEVERE: AB, BC, PEI VERY HIGH: CAN, NS, ON HIGH: MB, NB, NL, North, QC ELEVATED: SK Start wearing N95-type masks again. Get your 4th vaccine dose ASAP.

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Hey, @fordnation , you ok with your MPPs inciting harassment of your docs? @IrfanDhalla @BrooksFallis @NathanStall @drmwarner @NightShiftMD @neon8light @DFisman @nilikm @AntibioticDoc @bifnaked #onpoli

Sam Oosterhoff

@samoosterhoff

3 years

Disappointed to see Niagara the only Public Health Unit outside of GTA to remain in Grey. I understand this decision is based on advice of our local medical officer of health, Dr. Hirji. Hope to see us move to Red soon, based on positive trends here.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Tonight at 7: Are dogs real? We ask a veterinarian and a conspiracy theorist with internet access to weigh in.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

When my old friend Dr. Rob Sargeant had a brain tumour, I couldn't help him medically. But there was one thing I could do. Write. Love you, Sarge.♥️ @picardonhealth @Royal_College @theresaboyle @piya @UnityHealthTO @SeemaMarwahaMD @CMA_Docs @GoldFdtn

Opinion: A bitter pill: When the doctor becomes the patient

There’s this lie that health care providers tell ourselves: that our own health is somehow sturdier. It is awful when that idea shatters – as it did when my friend Dr. Rob Sargeant was diagnosed with...

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Imagine the good this group of authors could do if instead of pearl-clutching over the word "vector" they got outraged by the word "orphan".

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@JillianHortonMD

4 years

People who say the media is “overblowing” this - well, get your info from HC workers. We see what’s coming down the pipe. And we’re legitimately afraid that ppl laughing this off and socializing will cost us and our patients their lives. #COVIDCanada

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Unmoored. @DFisman

André Picard

@picardonhealth

2 years

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health has denied the Toronto District School Board’s request to maintain a mask😷mandate when students return to classrooms📚next week, by @calphonso @dustin_cook3 via @globeandmail #COVID19 #onpoli

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@JillianHortonMD

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“I do not wish to remain in this uncomfortable position, where I must choose between placid relations with colleagues on the one hand, and the NECESSITY of speaking truth during a public health crisis on the other.” 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Dr. David Fisman resigns from Ontario’s COVID-19 advisory panel

An outspoken epidemiologist on the COVID-19 science and modelling tables advising the Ontario government says the province “needs a public health system that is arm’s length from politics.”

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Too bad @fordnation and others don't understand - the exact person you want around you in a disaster is a doc like @BrooksFallis . Many of our doctors have started to think like politicians when in reality what we need is for our politicians to think more like this doctor.

Bruce Arthur

@bruce_arthur

2 years

Either hospital leaders lied to @brooksfallis about his firing, or a number of them were somehow misinformed. Otherwise, a star doctor was fired from a leadership position from a Covid hotspot hospital in the third wave in response to government pressure.

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Turns out the real way in which children are like "little vaccinated grandmas" is that society will also throw them under the bus in order to live like it's 2018.

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When you think the knock at the door is takeout & instead it’s the dream you’ve been working towards your whole adult life...😭😭❤️ On sale Feb 23 but preorder now through your fave Canadian bookseller! @HarperCollinsCa @alanalda @GoldFdtn @NightShiftMD @picardonhealth

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@JillianHortonMD

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I wonder who we can convince to take a two-week course to become Premier...

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

👏I'd add one more thing that will help, @BogochIsaac - remembering covid is #airborne , & adjusting behaviour, expectations of employers (fix the air or they shouldn't be there), & ramping up efforts to emergently address air Q in public space. @kprather88 @DFisman @jvipondmd

Isaac Bogoch

@BogochIsaac

2 years

7/ Things that will help: 1. Wearing masks indoors. 2. Rolling out vaccines, esp. 3rd doses. They are incredibly effective preventing severe infection. 3. Timely access to outpatient therapeutics. Room for improvement on this front. Helps keep people out of hospital. -Fin

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I woke up thinking about this story & this tweet. Once I saw a man gesticulating and screaming in his yard. I thought he was dangerous and unstable. Then I got closer & saw he was being stung by a cloud of bees. He was calling for help. And he was also warning me. @BrooksFallis

Ian Hanomansing

@ianhanomansing

2 years

Just read some astoundingly condescending tweets about doctors and scientists from people who appear to be doctors and scientists. This is once again a confusing time during this pandemic. I appreciate those who choose science over snark.

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@JillianHortonMD

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Future generations will look back on this moment and wonder how we could have been so irresponsible when it comes to our children.

Laura Miers

@LauraMiers

3 years

All three of my kids got Covid. Their hair is still falling out. Eldest has chest pain, exercise intolerance. Middle son has no hunger/thirst/taste & has lost weight; my youngest can’t feel his full bladder, & holds it until he sweats. No one knows what the future holds for kids.

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@JillianHortonMD

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What's to say? We f*** this up every single time. Universe throws us a bone and we say, no thanks, we prefer chewing on dynamite. Short-term corporate greed and arrogance prevail. Every. Single. Time.

Rosemary Barton

@RosieBarton

2 years

Mandatory masking on planes and trains will also be dropped on October 1.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

An unvaccinated LTC employee saying she has been "put into a corner." Well, our elders ended up being "put into" coroner's reports. @DrVivianS @NathanStall @IrfanDhalla

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@FourWinns298

3 years

Heartbreaking? Nope, a great start in the right direction.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

It's a marker of how broken our system is that this message and its associated data come from a scientist volunteering off the side of her desk and not the highest levels of government & public health.

Tara Moriarty

@MoriartyLab

2 years

It's pretty clear that if 80% of Canadians return to masking indoors we could reduce average daily COVID deaths and hospitalizations to a level similar to an average flu year. Even with Omicron. Why? 🧵

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For those whining about "doctors" or gov "moving the goalpost." This isn't a tricycle course, ppl. It's an evolving global battle to keep sick ppl alive from Covid while still keeping HC high functioning for all other probs ppl have. We are NOT doing the latter right now.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

Hey @Twitter , you flag lies from @realDonaldTrump . Can you please start fact-checking Canadian MPP Randy Hillier? It is a matter of public safety. @CMA_Docs @CMAJ @NightShiftMD @SharkawyMD @ASPphysician @NathanStall @DocSandyB @DoctorsManitoba @najmadoc @DFisman @allandrummond

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@alandrummond2

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And so it goes. An MPP with his head up his arse hoping, in true Trumpian fashion, that simply repeating a lie will make it true.

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@JillianHortonMD

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To my fellow doctors: Start worrying less about what your colleagues will think of you for signing these types of letters & start worrying more what your neighbours will think of you if you don't. @DrNancyOlivieri @BrooksFallis @DFisman @NathanStall @jkwan_md @CMA_Docs @AlikaMD

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@JillianHortonMD

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I try to buy local but I sure don't buy Friday's PH advice. Live your life & please also try not to get covid. I know our govs have not made it easy to avoid infection, but keep listening to top sources like @EricTopol @AbraarKaran @DFisman @meganranney .

'It's OK to get infected' comment from official not helpful in COVID fight, Winnipeg doctor says |...

A suggestion by Manitoba's deputy chief provincial public health officer that "it's OK to get infected" with COVID-19 is raising eyebrows among some medical professionals — including a Winnipeg...

www.cbc.ca

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

The public needs to hear what is known about long covid - and not known - directly from CMOHs.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Most emotion we've seen from Premier is in today's presser -gets angry, snaps at a reporter about her financial disclosure forms before conference brought to a close. Where's that level of indignation when it comes to rule breakers and dead citizens? 🤔

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@JillianHortonMD

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"Hey we're having a holiday party on the third floor of this cool place with no elevator, we know you're in a wheelchair and we understand if you don't feel comfortable trying to crawl up the stairs."

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@JillianHortonMD

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Parents in MB were able to take kids 5-11 for booster shots as of yesterday. Parents of kids 5-11 are mostly 18-49. Why didn't province open up fourth dose to all 18-49, and max the opportunity to give booster #2 to parents at same visit? We're not making this easy for families.

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

Hug your family. Message your friends. Be the best version of yourself you can muster for today. Watch the sunrise. And as Rob said - let’s get busy - and do what must be done. ❤️

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@JillianHortonMD

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One of the top-ten most surreal things I've seen on the internet today: "If Terry Fox were alive today he'd be part of this rally." If you really believe this about a humble guy who ran across the country on one leg to raise $ for cancer research...that is 🦇💩 crazy.

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@JillianHortonMD

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Our #Covid strategy in most of #Canada amounts to freaking out when the horse is out of the barn instead of doing everything we can beforehand to reenforce the gate.

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@JillianHortonMD

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There are four possibilities for the province's decisions at this point: A) Incompetence B) Ideology C) Indifference D) All of the above @DFisman @JustinTrudeau @roussin_brent

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@JillianHortonMD

2 years

You know what's pathetic? To some degree, we could learn to thrive *despite* covid. Clean the air, mask in groups, rapid tests, vax the world.

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@JillianHortonMD

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Uncomfortably truth: Society can't expect the same pool of people to keep "stepping up" for 2.5 years with no end in sight - without understanding that some of them are going to be forced to prioritise their health by "stepping out." @picardonhealth @CMA_Docs @canadanurses

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

2 years

This arrived in the inbox of a Dr friend of mine today. Toronto Western Hospital is desperate for “extenders” to staff the ER this weekend because they can’t find enough nurses. Our system is collapsing. Where is our new Health Minister? #onpoli #onhealth

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From Instagram and I love love love it.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

Our leaders have broken the social contract with so many. Our elders didn't sign up to be abandoned at the end of their lives. Our healthcare workers didn't sign up to be human shields. Our racialized fellow Canadians didn't sign up to be disposable cogs in a heartless economy.

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@JillianHortonMD

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I wish the crowd that claims they want lockdowns over because they cause too much stress and distress could really grasp the stress and distress they are inflicting on the rest of the population with their behaviour.

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@JillianHortonMD

3 years

I felt vulnerable writing this, but #reconciliation requires vulnerability. Deep gratitude to Esther Joyce Grant for blessing me to share, & to wise friends @achakos & @AlikaMD for generous pre-print reflections. Retweeting bc of a surname error. 🙏

Opinion: I was Brian Sinclair’s doctor. I understand how our health care system failed him

What the Winnipeg man told me, a year before he died, has never left my mind. And his later passing – in a hospital after waiting 34 hours for treatment – taught me that care is the bare minimum of...

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@JillianHortonMD

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There's a scary lede buried here. If an op-ed warning Canadians covid is destabilising our HC system is actually the reason the #OST was dissolved, as @picardonhealth suggests...? Let the significance of that inference sink in. @AlikaMD @CMA_Docs @DrNancyOlivieri @BrooksFallis

Dr. Jillian Horton

@JillianHortonMD

2 years

"...within 48 hours the science table says it received a letter from Public Health Ontario saying, essentially “thanks for your service, now get lost.”" If those two things are related as @picardonhealth suggests... #inquests can't happen soon enough.

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@JillianHortonMD

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Listening to @shandro say govs "can't read future". Credible epidemiologists have been able to reliably tell prov govs what was coming since after wave 1. Govs don't like it, gaslight conscientious experts, cause death and may now be starting to think about their own liability.

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