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Everything TRexMD said! I don’t talk about it much but in 2012, I miscarried at ~17 weeks.

My midwife detected no heartbeat and an ultrasound confirmed it.

I required an emergency D&C due to risks of infection.

That D&C was performed at an abortion clinic in #yyc .

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People like me didn’t have equal rights until the Charter. Within my lifetime. So, I am vigilant about those rights.

What Pierre Poilievre said this week about minority rights, the notwithstanding clause and the Charter is chilling.

PoP NB submitted a RTI request for records of discussions of Long Covid. The response brings to light a shocking level of deception perpetrated against the people of NB, under which true magnitude of risk was hidden and the fundamental precepts of public health were abandoned.
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New large Long Covid study preprint out of Norway, 22 months followup.

Clearly identifies cognitive issues and very elevated self-reported 'worsening of overall health' among people confirmed infected with the virus.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

A 2-year #LongCovid prospective study in Norway
'A positive #SARSCoV2 test was associated with new onset memory- and concentration problems, anosmia and dysgeusia, dyspnoea and fatigue as well as self-assessed worsening of overall health, which persisted for the length of the…

Some day, some goddamn day, I want to be able to come on here and tell you that all kids in NB will be breathing cleaner air in schools. Or that everyone in LTC has access to clean air.

Amanda Hu me an idea.
Let's reframe Covid 'hybrid immunity' for what it really is:
serial variants in vivo gain of function experimentation.
There was no informed consent signed.

Let's keep this short & sweet:

To Danielle Smith & United Conservative Party of Alberta: If you actually enact legislation that restricts abortion as your MLAs are attempting to do, know this story:

In 2021 I got pregnant for the first time.

And in 2021 I miscarried

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There is a false binary making the rounds.
How ridiculous to pit Medical Expertise against Social Awareness and Action.
This binary is reductionist and profoundly dangerous.
Raghu Venugopal MD literally nails it, ' Medical Expertise is the hammer which pounds social justice home '

The first Cochrane Canada CAN-PCC Prevention Guideline recommendation is out:
*We suggest masking for asymptomatic adults in community settings be used for the prevention of COVID-19 infection to prevent COVID-19 condition.* (Cond Rec, Low Cert Evidence)

There's a lot of nuance and rich information to unpack in this work by a wonderful panel, but masks work to prevent COVID-19.

My dear colleague, Fobete & I co-wrote this piece on the perils of top-down approaches & increasing fragmentation in #Alberta #Healthcare .
We desperately need more attn to #patientvoices & #postionality .
Canadian Collaboration for Complex Care (C4) sue robins (she/her) Maria J Santana
c4collaboration.ca/posts/healthca…

Long Covid is also going to have such a terrible impact on our economy in Alberta. When I count the people I know personally (not as a doctor or politician) I do not doubt these statistics. I look forward to more data about long covid in Alberta.

Disabled people are not ok. The pandemic has turned society against us (even more than before).

People were quietly ableist before. Now they’re openly hateful.

It was hard to access healthcare before. Now it’s impossible.

It was lonely before. Now it’s a pit of despair /1 🧵

Public transit should be FREE and accessible for everyone. That is the only equitable, just, and Life-serving future (re climate).

#FluIsAirborne and can be stopped w respirators & symptom checks.
If we will have broad spread of H5N1 among humans it'll be due to a *deliberate choice* of decision makers, not due to technical impossibility of preventing/stopping h-t-h transmission.

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