Was asked at work again today, by another middle-aged female staff, to take off my mask so they can see my face. Said “Absolutely!” Then recalled I was standing in a hospital. And that seeing me take my mask off wasn’t the real need, just representative of the real need.

In science & esp medicine, risk is a tricky thing to contend with - besides of course being a mathematical one - and involves many considerations in order to have a more fulsome understanding.

In this post Dr. Elisabeth Marnik Ph.D. and I attempt to explain these concepts. 1/9

My piece on Covid and brain health in Scientific American Scientific American

Even mild Covid can lead to significant decline in brain health

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The cabinet minister responsible for Long Term Care followed this account until my data analysis and commentary increasingly pointed to negligence by her Ministry. Don’t let politicians with a conflict of interest rewrite our history.

All of the recent news re #UnitedAirlines incidents this past week + the Alaska flight that had the panel/window detach reminded me that these may not even be the biggest issues with the US aviation industry right now. This NYT report from last August:

'But the most acute…

No parent who has seen the children I’ve treated for #measles would refuse a vaccine, by Paul Law statnews.com/2024/03/12/mea… via STAT #pediatrics #vaccination

Yes, it seems progress is happening on the mucosal COVID vaccine front.

'The number of next generation vaccines moving past first-in-human trials is into double digits. With another 2 pancoronavirus vaccines starting clinical trials this month'

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For months, the #covid19 recommendation has been that you can stop isolating 5 days after symptoms. CDC data shows that ~30% of people are still contagious (culturable virus) at this point. This is why wearing a well-fitting mask until ~10 days out is important. I think that…

Four years of illness and counting. Over 57,000 confirmed deaths in Canada. 3.5 million with long-COVID.

To advocate for better policy and public health, #TemertyMed 's Kashif Pirzada, MD and a team of experts created the Canadian Covid Society/Société canad. de la covid. bit.ly/3Tk0aTM

Join us, we would love your support. ❤️ Canadian Covid Society/Société canad. de la covid covidsociety.ca

Four years ago I was feeling awful but optimistic that 2020 was going to be a good year. Diagnosis, chemo, surgery and radiation is always going to be an awful experience and I was through the worst of it.

I wrote about NPR 's decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective.

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Message today from a woman whose husband has had to stop his chemo because he caught Covid while being given his chemo.
The only place they went was the hospital, the only people they saw were in the hospital, and, of course, none of the staff or other patients were masked.

What if we renamed “eco-anxiety” to “existential awareness”?

The biggest issue with these pieces for me is the false dichotomy: either you can advocate for systemic changes that treat people working in healthcare like humans OR you are a dedicated professional. That’s not it.

#FightBurnout

The BS started over at NEJM again

J'étais en entrevue à TVA ce soir pour parler de la création de la Société canadienne de la covid.

Notre mission est de prévenir les conséquences à long terme de la Covid et cela passe par entre autre par mieux ventiler et filtrer l'air intérieur.

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Why lose an hour of sleep. Can’t we all agree to spring forward mid-morning Monday? Go from 9:59 am right to 11… almost time for lunch. Hard to image anyone would object.