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The tide has finally receded in #Ottawa. Lower plots show the ww signal or COVIS-19 hospitalization counts at the bottom of each wave (blue dots in upper plots) is back down to pre-omicron levels.

Canada has a strong idea of who they are as a people, and what kind of nation they want to become. Because of that, the country is poised for growth and prosperity -- IF they can build enough housing. noahpinion.blog/p/maximum-cana…

Noah Smith 🐇 Excellent post. You'll be interested in our new working paper: clef.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content/upl….

Canada is what happens when a top econ blogger becomes your finance minister noahpinion.blog/p/maximum-cana…

"Violence on the TTC. Syringes in back alleys. Homeless people sleeping in our subway stations." In a long essay, I write on how we got here, the temptation of rebalancing patients' rights & a way forward for those with severe mental illness. CAMH theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Sign Our Letter if... School trips to the Science Centre are great memories of growing up in #Ontario. And half the fun was that yellow school bus ride down the highway! It's Our Science Centre. It's Ontario. It's All of Us. Help us Save OSC. Sign⬇️ act.newmode.net/action/evidenc…

“The 17 female hostages are not bargaining chips to be debated by diplomats. They are daughters & one of them is mine. My primal scream should be the scream of mothers everywhere. #BringThemHomeNow!” A must read piece 👇 thefp.com/p/the-woman-in…

Warning to parents with babies, the current surveillance period (week 35, 2023 to present) shows infants < 1 years old are being hospitalized for COVID at a rate of 66.3 per 100,000 population which is more than adults age 60-79 at 62.3 per 100k population. 6/

7) Measles causes "IMMUNE AMNESIA" It attacks immune memory cells you already have and destroys them, so you lose immunity to *other* diseases. Like a new arrival w/ no maternal antibodies. cbc.ca/news/canada/lo…

As this Yom Hashoah begins, I’m thinking of my grandparents. They survived the camps though most of their families did not. Canada offered a chance at a new life, yet today I see once unimaginable antisemitism on our campuses and streets that is excused or dismissed by too many.

The thing that most strikes me about the current #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cattle (and terrifies me to some extent) is how much the virus surprised us once again. And how cavalier our response seems in the face of that fact.

1) Wastewater testing is important for allowing local organizations, governments, and individuals to do individualized disease risk assessments. [2/8]

This is an exciting discovery! The collective intelligence of multiple open-source LLMs outperforms GPT-4o. "Together Mixture-of-Agents" leverages diverse models to achieve 65.1% on AlpacaEval 2.0, surpassing GPT-4o's 57.5%. together.ai/blog/together-…

This is amazing news. However, scientists like Rob Delatolla @uottawa shouldn't have to depend on funds earmarked for *research* -- an already scarce source of $ in Canada -- to carry out what is a now-established gold standard of public health surveillance.

Join us for a talk with Dr. Michael Mina at eMed as he discusses harnessing #biology, #technology, and #math to drive public health and combat #pandemics. 🗓️ Sep 23, 2024 | 3:30-4:30 pm ET 🔗 Free event, registration required: bit.ly/3YQByWR Michael Mina

This is a damning report. The Ford government cut wastewater testing early citing that the federal government would take over, which was never true. Doug Ford's government knew, from an internal memo, that wastewater surveillance would, "test the whole population to identify

For example, nasal boosters given every few months may be able to maintain protective IgA in the nose and throat. Self-administration can make this easier. We need out of the box thinking to combat respiratory viruses like COVID and to prevent infection, transmission & #longCOVID

Dear Costco Canada, The Govt of 🇨🇦 did not order the Novavax vaccine. As you can see from the number of Canadians travelling to the US, there's huge demand. Novavax requires a 500,000 vile minimum order. Please place that order and help thousands of immunocompromised Canadians.

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov