We cannot say we have a universal health care system when 2.5 million people in Ontario cannot access primary care.

If I keep masking for another couple of years and it turns out all the scientists researching it are mistaken and it's actually fine to catch covid again and again, then I'll just have been healthy for five years in a row for the first time in my life for no reason at all. 😕

This is the full statement we received: “Federal wastewater monitoring programs do not duplicate the work done by provincial wastewater program. While work is underway to expand federal testing in Ontario, the scope of the expansion would not replace the current scope of the

So this unsettling chart will likely be the last piece of COVID wastewater data that Eastern Ontario will ever receive from Public Health Ontario.

"#COVID19 is still very much with us. The virus is circulating in all countries. Governments need to provide their populations with the tools to protect themselves As individuals it is important to take measures to reduce risk of infection & severe disease." - Maria Van Kerkhove

Alcohol is a major carcinogen (cancer-causing substance). It’s the second highest substance in annual deaths in Ontario (after tobacco) and costs the most: $7.11 billion currently in direct health and social harms. ontario.ca/files/2024-04/…

Protect yourself and your loved ones from #COVID19: 🛋️ Stay home if you are sick 🤧Test and contact your doctor for medical care 💪 Get vaccinated against COVID-19 & influenza, especially if you are in an at-risk group 🪟 Ventilate Wear a mask around others.

If supervised sites are closed, won’t addicts using them move to injecting — and maybe dying — somewhere else, like public places possibly close to schools? Shutting supervised site doesn’t magically cure addicts, it just moves them to unsupervised sites How is that better?

People will die because of this decision. So, no it’s not.

Using Causal Diagrams within the GRADE Framework to Evaluate Confounding Adjustment in Observational Studies - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology jclinepi.com/article/S0895-… Thank you Kevin McIntyre https://mstdn.ca/@kevinmcintyre for including me in this project! Huge congrats to you and our co-authors!

New in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology kt Curtis Jeffery SAVERIO STRANGES Janet Martin & I discuss how incorporating DAGs into GRADE can help provide more robust, transparent & reproducible evaluations of confounding for observational research in evidence synthesis jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…

Using Causal Diagrams within the GRADE Framework to Evaluate Confounding Adjustment in Observational Studies - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…

A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form. Learn more: scim.ag/8o0 News from Science #ScienceMagArchives

And the beat goes on! Ottawa wastewater surveillance🧪📉 will continue Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa thanks to financial support from OttawaPublicHealth, CHEO Ottawa Hospital, and CHEO Research Institute. Thanks Alex Munter The Berman Lab Dr. Vera Etches Rob Delatolla for making this happen! cheo.on.ca/en/news/uottaw…

I am getting trolled and harassed on literally every social media platform for having vaccinated my daughter against COVID so I think this is a great time to announce that I have also gotten my COVID booster while pregnant to pass COVID protection to my fetus. Happily.

They made COVID vaccines difficult to access They took away our COVID tests They never offered respirators or clean air Call me old fashioned, but I long for the days when public health trumped "personal responsibility"

Please don’t revise history. Nobody was “forced” to be vaccinated. Governments of all political stripes in Canada, and around the world made the best decisions they could to protect vulnerable people. Requirements are part of organized society. Force means use of violence. This