@DaliaHasanMD
You ever come across anything that hospitalizes multiple times, has a super high 30 day readmission rate AND has a good 5 year morbidity outcome?
Yeah. Me either.
#PopHealth
@acoyne
Weirdly, letting a few families nobody likes, cares about or wants to work for, take over everything is bad for productivity and innovation. Who knew?
@1goodtern
No. It's not just you. I've DM'd with some of Canada's national broadcasters and health journalists, none of this data is in doubt.
They just don't care about kids enough to question their own self-informed opinions.
@ianhanomansing
@picardonhealth
@LaurenPelley
🤣 The only thing Canada has "tamed" during this pandemic is access to COVID testing and stopped posting any data this month due to "technical problems". But you do you lol "journalist".
@drseanmullen
When I watched old, old news real movies I assumed the coughing was from all the smoking, turns out nope, also probably still there from years after the Spanish flu. if you publish, include my name :-)
@jvipondmd
I'm not sure who cares but an entire hospital equivalent the size of Sick Kids is STILL filled with COVID19 patients this week in Ontario.
#CanadaWaits
cc
@picardonhealth
Trudeau said Ottawa will foot the bill for all costs associated with the additional aid and will co-ordinate bringing staff from provinces to Ontario's front lines.
@picardonhealth
@globebusiness
Sure. Work from home also lowers sperm count, eliminates happiness and the reduces the ability for corporations to love us unconditionally,
I am shocked. Who would have predicted that a hard lockdown and thus increased business and consumer certainty would be the right economic decision as well as the right public health decision?
@BCAcomau
?
Four times as many people diagnosed with autoimmune disorders in Finland in 2023 compared with 2018.
😮
Rising from fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people to more than in every 3,000.
There's a trend that you don't want to continue.
📈
@mehdirhasan
Don't you remember the "kids can't get COVID" bunk?
It was by the same people who brought you
#Omicron
is mild while it filled up the pediatric
#ICUs
.
All I can say is discuss with smarter people.
Whole planet is under testing kids, everybody knows it.
From our decades in childhood
#diabetes
testing experience the I can tell you the only way to alleviate the parents worry is either more testing or knowledge transfer.
Population
#outcomes
data charts?Not going to do it.
@HelenBranswell
@Craig_A_Spencer
Thanks for this frontline accound. PS: During
#SARS
we screened everybody coming in, including HCP. I have no problem with self-screening for some but assuming all workers will might be a mistake
~jba
@PHealthGnome
@DavidFisman
Cheaping out on N95s.
We have the ONA to thank for getting us all, even low level data analysts, mask fit tested during
#SARS
No
#PSW
college in Ontario means no pressure from the
#LTCHomes
front lines.
Crack meets
#COVID19
, deaths occur. We need to treat the problem on this.
Somewhere between 5 and 30 million based on the health systems capability to cope and past performance. You can't straight line Sweden's functional health system to USA's mess.
@TrudoLemmens
Well. It didn't take long for Canada's lack of Autism healthcare funding to bring on a MAID death.
Slow clap for all the elected Canadian politicians complicit in this death. This one's on you.
@DFisman
Sure it does. Our contact tracing program is still at the 'collect a sign-in sheet' phase when we should be at the electronic log and QR code phase.
Full disclosure: offered that software to the province in March, was rejected.
@TheFluFighters
Current price range for an Ontario COVID-19 stay is $18,000, with ICU it's $53,000. I expect all the Ottawa local hospitals have none of the usual qualms with giving that debt to the most ruthless collections agency.
The first
#FreedomConvoy2022
#COVID19
cases will start showing up this week. Without testing it's impossible to know how bad until they start hitting the ERs but the hospitals should probably set up some screening questions and
#Reporting
to monitor the situation
#Freebie
@JustinTrudeau
@g20org
Huh. $500 million eh? Maybe ask them if they can send over some PICU, NICU and bassinet nursing staff for us forgotten Canadian parents would you
@justintrudea
?
Again I want to re-iterate how bad this fractured pandemic response is. Where's the historian consult? Where are the sociologists and social workers, psychologists and health equity tables? Where's the comms best practices?
Dollar smart but collapse of the health system stupid
Did no one learn what liberalism and liberal democracies are in mandatory high school social studies classes?
Or that most wealthy industrialized countries have this type of government?
Or that it's typically tied closely to capitalism?
This is basic Gr. 9 and 10 content.
.
@CTVW5
convened a panel of doctors from seven provinces. All of them have criticized provincial policies in this pandemic and they recognize the risk of speaking out. Watch 'Second Opinion' tonight at 7 PM.
Holy shit.
That feeling you get when you observe a pattern of timing for how long it takes a covid infection to do really weird things to the brain, and you finally feel confident enough to say it publicly and the next day it's there in black and white in the journal of the…
@AntibioticDoc
As promised in here ☝️ is one of Canada's media
#IDDocs
, calling their millions dead herd immunity strategy "a success" and "centrist".
note: Viral burden is unchanged from 2020, check your hospital utilizations and spread is literally everywhere.
Look at all these
#PublicHealth
people with their (cost effective with strong business cases - if they have the right
#BetterData
) Health in all Policies springing up everywhere....
#HiAP
@QPBriefing
I would go after his Health Minister's choices to lead the health system. Go through him like the Rock through tissue paper on those choices.
Are your airports too packed?
Are your ERs too busy?
Are your store selves empty of medicine?
Are your politicians missing or making up excuses?
Congratulations, you've got enough data to predict a COVID19 wave is here before any expert or media source in North America!
I see examples every day of kind, smart, thoughtful people weighing in on Twitter. I hope you stay here. I enjoy reading your comments. I know it's easy to get discouraged by the corrosiveness but I highly recommend the mute function.
@NightShiftMD
Politicians & media aven't paid proper attention to the workload complaints by
#LTCHomes
and
#PSWs
for 20+ years and instead been playing games with austerity, acuity-based funding and ignoring their responsibilities for an
#AccountableCare
system in a possible
#Pandemic
?
~jba
@bradwouters
Too bad but easy enough to see in the data from South Africa. It's not milder either; no idea where that is coming from but it's not from the data either.
@acoyne
I'd ask where this kind of insight during the last Ontario provincial election was but you all were too busy ignoring a health system collapse to get your guy elected.
The No COVID Chandelier is HERE!
Just in time for Thanksgiving
18 fans, 990cfm raw, 2x 14x30
@3M
Filtretes. 46db. Cleans the aerosols straight from up the table, spreads clean air in 360 directions at all the guests.
#crbox
@yodelodwho
@robwiss
@Trematomus
@mrlighttouch
I know I'm the one who said it would take a Chris Cuomo to get
@chriscuomo
's to listen but...
Tell me. Are things better now. Or worse?
#LongCOVID
#EndStigma
Hit or Miss. one reason why I am covering
#LongCovid
aggressively. Does not rate but there is a duty to expose what is being ignored, especially when many millions of us may be affected. Thank you for the info on fatigue. Please join our substack on
#LongCovid
at…
@picardonhealth
@rddysum
@WSJhealth
Not hearing about
#COVID19
? It's because North American snowflakes banned testing and mandates and our media and leadership agreed so they could sell other stories while governments can cheap out on Paxlovid, chronic COVID and updated vaccines.
I've been doing health numbers since SARS.
Literally can't fathom what this'll do to Ontario's hospitals.
Except to say to every healthcare worker out there on the frontlines, when you feel the relationship is abusive and your health is at risk, it is ok to just...walk away.
Look at that out-of-control ascent.
All those GTA university and college students just finished writing final exams.
And they're going home for the holidays.
With special guests, riding on aerosol plumes.
@GosiaGasperoPhD
@julia_doubleday
Hard to believe I've been whistleblowing this for four years as a
#SARSvet
and Ontario healthcare accountability data expert and been blocked by more than half a dozen media for it. Muted by even more.
3 untrue things I learned on
@CBCTheNational
this morning:
1. school closure cause mental health problems
2. doing next to nothing makes kids safer
3.
#Omicron
is mild for children
@picardonhealth
@GlobeDebate
Dear André, whatever they're paying you, we'll double it. We'll triple it.
Hell, for material like this, we'll give you share options and a place on the board.
The media-wealth- politician coziness in Canada is always a shocker.
Q: How are you going to report on a sex scandal (or pandemic scandal) after this?
A: They Don't.
Hundreds of people have played in our Saturday morning ball hockey game at UBC since we started in 1992. But this morning was the first time we crossed "Multiple Grammy Winner" off our bingo card. And this
@MichaelBuble
dude's got some major skills.
Eventually somebody's going to do something other than just say we're doing a great job right? I see the child's vaccine rollout was another debacle. What's that? 5 strike outs?
It just feels nuts that we warned that widespread repeat covid infection would cause a wave of disability that would damage the economy, and then they let it rip, and it did, and now they're like 'whoa widespread disability has damaged the economy'.
@CBCQueensPark
Best tweet that became a
@cbcqueenspark
interview (for some reason, a woman actually did the analysis 🤣) on radio (and TV?) so far of 2023
I hope to see many more.
@raniawrites
Same. Also a professor at
@yorkuniversity
, except was for my brother. Dropped the class & left higher education behind ASAP and have never regretted it.
#IvoryTower
has been decades behind my work ever since. Seems like for you too.
Thanks for sharing.
@1goodtern
"The flu" is extremely under-reported co-morbidity for .... just about every illness, but I can assure you, the Spanish Flu is not now, nor has ever been a "mild" disease. 2nd biggest killer in the last 100 years after mosquitoes/malaria I'd bet.
@Nouryia72
@randyhillier
@DFisman
With ICUs packed all those things are now extremely dangerous too.
Mortality across the board will now go up.
Don't be in a car accident, don't go flying and, for your safety, routine surgeries are now cancelled.
@BlakeMMurdoch
Let me translate, their pandemic response capabilities have been effectively non-existent since Ebola and they have no idea how to set one up in a health system as complicated as the USA. US CDC has no domestic skillset of real world success.
@thenarwhalca
@fatimabsyed
Enbridge needs builders to force new housing buyers into long term contracts or they'll never get the infrastructure loans for their Microsoft commercial power expansion plans; AKA Fossil Fuel Corporate Welfare
No it doesn't. Not unless you understand the local wind farm problem, the nuclear industry and the need for uninterrupted peak power in order to profit off of selling to the USA in a unified market.
Rushing RFPs is how insiders always get the contracts, under bidding knowing their bought insiders will always increase the budget after they submit their lowest bid contract..
Welcome to post-
#eHealth
Ontario RFPs.
#NowYouKnowToo
The
@EllisDon
RFP to cut down hundreds of trees ASAP at Ontario Place is up, deadline Oct. 6. “Time is of the essence” it says. Why? Here’s the companies who requested a copy of the RFP to bid; we’ve seen
@DaveyTree
cutting brush @ OP. RFP:
#topoli
#onpoli
Yeah... That's not the profile of a brand new variant that arrived in Canada and exploded with an R of >4, that's a VOC that was already here and was ignored until it exploded.
@VoiceOfFranky
Four years late on that prediction Franky. We've all been wondering who PP was setting us up for. Big money is on Stephen Harper trying a comeback.
3 untrue things I learned on
@CBCTheNational
this morning:
1. school closure cause mental health problems
2. doing next to nothing makes kids safer
3.
#Omicron
is mild for children
University of Manitoba keeps mask mandate into winter term
'A mask mandate is the best way to protect our community right now,' message from U of M president says
What about
@UCalgary
@UAlberta
Just.... speechless at over 50 children under the age of 2 admitted to the hospital during just 2 weeks in South Africa ignored because of the
#Omicron
is mild narrative.
That'll mess up your numbers won't it
#rookies
?
@BlakeMMurdoch
Ditto. Of course I was on one of the Swine Flu Pandemic Response tables so I only had to convince a few colleagues and we rolled out the
#N95s
.
Very different after
@mckinsey
advisors took over.